Legendary stoner metallers Sleep, who recently announced their long-anticipated reunion tour, have added several new stops to the impending trek including additional shows in Brooklyn and San Francisco. Dubbed the Marijuanaut's Return US Tour 2010, the journey will commence on September 3 at the prestigious All Tomorrow's Parties Music Fest in Monticello, New York and draw to a close on the second of two dates at the Regency Ballroom in San Francisco, California. Support will be provided by a revolving roster of bands throughout the tour including: Doomriders, Unearthly Trance, A Storm Of Light, Lichens, Sub Oslo, Scott Kelly, YOB and Thrones.
Sleep split in 1997 after two hugely influential albums. Members went on to form underground heroes OM and High On Fire, and more recently metal supergroup Shrinebuilder. On the Marijuanaut's Return Tour, original members Al Cisneros and Matt Pike will be joined by drummer Jason Roeder of Neurosis to perform the seminal Holy Mountain album in its entirety as well as selections from Dopesmoker and more.
Sleep: Marijuanaut's Return US Tour 2010:
9/03/2010 All Tomorrow's Parties - Monticello, NY
9/04/2010 FYE Fest - Los Angeles, CA
9/05/2010 Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
9/06/2010 Brooklyn Masonic Temple - New York, NY w/ Doomriders, Unearthly Trance
9/07/2010 Starlight Ballroom - Philadelphia, PA w/ A Storm Of Light
9/08/2010 Brooklyn Masonic Temple - New York, NY w/ A Storm Of Light, Lichens
9/09/2010 Logan Square Auditorium - Chicago, IL w/ Lichens
9/10/2010 Mohawk - Austin, TX w/ Sub Oslo w/ Sub Oslo
9/11/2010 Roseland Theater/Music Fest NW - Portland, OR w/ Scott Kelly, YOB
9/12/2010 Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA w/ Thrones
9/13/2010 Regency Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
Sleep debuted with 1991's Volume One album, recorded for San Francisco label Tupelo. Earache Records received the band’s next recordings in the mail as a demo. The label -- impressed by Sleep's single-mindedness and unique vision -- immediately signed the band and released the tape exactly as it was received. Record stores worldwide stocked Sleep’s Holy Mountain from November 1992 to this day.
The band then signed to London Records. Their debut album for the major took the form of one mammoth 63-minute leviathan of a track entitled "Jerusalem." The band resisted the label’s attempts at radio edits and bringing in their own engineer to remix the album in view of “marketability.” London baulked at the prospect of promoting what probably still is the most extreme music ever recorded for a major label, so shelved the recording and dropped the band.
Sleep's music has been featured in films by Harmony Korine and Jim Jarmusch.
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