Jerusalem (Sleep album)

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Jerusalem

Studio album by Sleep
Released	February 22, 1999
Genre	Stoner Metal, Doom metal
Length	52:08
Label	Music Cartel Rise Above
Producer(s)	Billy Anderson, Sleep
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Sleep chronology
Sleep's Holy Mountain (1993)	Jerusalem (1999)	Dopesmoker (2003)
Original bootleg cover

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.