Sleep's Holy Mountain

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Sleep's Holy Mountain
Sleep's Holy Mountain cover
Studio album by Sleep
Released November 16, 1993
Recorded Razor's Edge Studio in San Francisco, California
Genre Stoner metal
Doom metal
Length 52:14
Label Earache Records (catalog number MOSH 79)
Kreation Records (vinyl reissue)
Producer Sleep and Billy Anderson
Professional reviews
Sleep chronology
Volume One
(1992)		 Sleep's Holy Mountain
(1993)		 Jerusalem
(1998)

Sleep's Holy Mountain is the second full-length album by the stoner metal band Sleep. It was the last album to be released by the band as a fully functioning group, as their subsequent albums were released after the group had broken up.

The recordings that would become Sleep's Holy Mountain were originally sent to independent label, Earache, as a demo. The label immediately signed the band and released the recordings exactly as they were received. The album, which includes the word "stoner" in the lyrics of two songs[1] and prominently features cannabis leaves in its album art, is widely considered one of the seminal albums in the evolution of stoner metal, along with Kyuss's Blues for the Red Sun and Monster Magnet's Spine of God.

The album was re-released on vinyl in 2002, the European pressing was limited to 1,000 copies on 220g black vinyl while the American release was limited to 1,000 copies on green vinyl. It was re-released on vinyl again in 2007 by Kreation Records. This third pressing featured a gatefold sleeve and was pressed on black vinyl and on red and blue vinyl. It was repressed a second time by Kreation (also in 2007) on black vinyl and on green and white vinyl.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

All music/lyrics written by Sleep.

  1. "Dragonaut" - 5:43
  2. "The Druid" - 4:51
  3. "Evil Gypsy / Solomon's Theme" - 7:06
  4. "Some Grass" - 0:47
  5. "Aquarian" - 5:38
  6. "Holy Mountain" - 8:44
  7. "Inside the Sun" - 5:44
  8. "From Beyond" - 10:34
  9. "Nain's Baptism" - 3:02

[edit] Credits

[edit] Pressing history

Year Label Format Country Out of Print? Notes
1993 Earache CD U.K. No
1993 Earache LP U.K. Yes
2002 Earache LP U.S./U.K. Yes Ltd. 2000; 1000 copies on green vinyl (U.S.), 1000 copies on 220g black vinyl (U.K.)
2007 Kreation LP U.S. Yes Gatefold jacket; 250 copies on red/blue vinyl, unknown quantity on black vinyl
2007 Kreation LP U.S. No Gatefold jacket; 250 copies on green/white vinyl, unknown quantity on black vinyl

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Look into the rays of the new stoner sun rising," "Holy Mountain" and "Stoner caravan from deep space arrives," "From Beyond," lyrics printed in Sleep's Holy Mountain CD liner notes, Earache Records, 1992.

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Albums
Volume One (1991) · Sleep's Holy Mountain (1993) · Jerusalem (1999) · Dopesmoker (2003)
EPs
Volume Two (1992)
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