Jerusalem (Sleep album)

Infobox Album
Name = Jerusalem
Type = studio
Artist = Sleep


Released = January 19, 1999
Recorded = Record Two Studio in Comptche, California
Genre = Stoner metal, doom metal
Length = 52:08
Label = The Music Cartel (USA)
Rise Above Records (Europe)
Producer = Sleep and Billy Anderson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:nu5g8qcmbtv4 link]
* SSMT Reviews (favorable) [http://www.ssmt-reviews.com/db/searchrev.php?artistID=1038&showReview=true link] |
Last album = "Sleep's Holy Mountain"
(1993)
This album = "Jerusalem"
(1999)
Next album = "Dopesmoker"
(2003)
Misc = Extra album cover 2
Upper caption = Original bootleg cover
Type = studio
Background =


Lower caption = Sleeve design by Arik Roper

"Jerusalem" is an album by the stoner metal band Sleep.

For their third record, Sleep took almost two years writing, re-writing, and recording with producer Billy Anderson, investing a large portion of their major label advance on the album. The result was a 63-minute song, "Dopesmoker", that left the managers at London Records confused and dismayed. The band reworked the song into the 52-minute "Jerusalem" but London Records still refused to release it. The band was subsequently dropped, and the resulting red tape contributed heavily to the band’s disbanding. "Jerusalem" was released as a bootleg by a friend of the band in 1998. The song was split into six tracks against the band's wishes. A year later it was officially released by The Music Cartel and Rise Above Records. The official release kept the song split into six tracks.

In 2003, "Dopesmoker" was released in its full-length single-track form and is considered the definitive version of the third album by Sleep.

Track listing

# "Jerusalem Part 1" – 9:26
# "Jerusalem Part 2" – 8:26
# "Jerusalem Part 3" – 9:01
# "Jerusalem Part 4" – 10:28
# "Jerusalem Part 5" – 5:45
# "Jerusalem Part 6" – 9:03

Legacy

Jerusalem has possibly the biggest cult following of any Sleep album, considering the general obscurity of a 52 minute track making up an entire album. It is considered to be the magnum opus of the band's career by many fans, although some regard it as musically inferior to Sleep's Holy Mountain.

Credits

*Al Cisneros - bass guitar, vocals
*Matt Pike - electric guitar
*Chris Hakius - drums
*Ron Togash - cover artwork (Music Cartel version)
*Arik Roper - cover artwork (original bootleg version)

External links

* [http://www.music-cartel.com/ Music Cartel Records]
* [http://www.riseaboverecords.com/ Rise Above Records]