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| | Binding: | Audio CD | | Studio: | Earache Records | | Release Date: | November 16, 1993 | | Sales Rank: | 20,993th |
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TRACK LISTING |
Disc: 1
- Track 1: Dragonaut
- Track 2: Druid
- Track 3: Evil Gypsy/Solomon's Theme
- Track 4: Some Grass
- Track 5: Aquarian
- Track 6: Holy Mountain
- Track 7: Inside the Sun
- Track 8: From Beyond
- Track 9: Rain's Baptism
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 33 reviews)
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I, a drug-free person, love this album! "Swim inside the solar seas..." by William Dorfer  5 Stars
June 19, 2009
Sleep's Holy Mountain is generally considered one of the cornerstone's in stoner rock/metal. Now of course, you don't need to be a stoner to enjoy this music, and in fact, Sleep made quite an impressive album here. As a musician who loves improvisation, I enjoy the jamming that the power trio does throughout the album. Songs such as "Evil Gypsy/Solomon's Theme" and "Holy Mountain" showcase their skillful, sludgy jamming. Also, we have some nice bluegrass guitar on "Some Grass", and the opener "Dragonaut" has, let's be honest, probably one of the sexiest grooves ever for a metal song!
Sleep reminds me a lot of Black Sabbath, but with usually gruffer, but understandable, vocals. The lyrics are first-rate, delving deeply into fantasy as you can get, and the music sets the perfect mood for it. Overall, this is definitely a classic album that may be hard to obtain, but well worth the effort. I find myself listening to it over and over again. Thanks for the time, and peace.
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not just for stoners!!! by Devin Garrow  4 Stars
May 28, 2009
im drug free and i enjoy this record quite a bit..
killer riffs,awesome jaming parts,fun lyrics,good times.
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Sleep - 'Sleep's Holy Mountain' (Earache Records) by Mike Reed (USA) 4 Stars
February 15, 2009
This is the North California stoner trio's 2nd CD. Unless I'm mistaken, I believe I saw them on this very tour when they were support band for Nik Turner on his state side 'Prophets Of Time' trek. Tunes I liked best here include "The Druid", the brief snippet "Some Grass", "Holy Mountain", the heavily Sabbath-influenced - ten minute epic "From Beyond" and the thumping "Rain's Baptism". Line-up: Matt Pike (now, of High On Fire)-guitar, Al Cisneros-bass & vocals and Chris Hakius-drums. Should appeal to fans of Fu Manchu, Trouble, early Sabbath, Monster Magnet, Boris, Saint Vitus, Sons Of Otis, the list goes on.
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Classic stuff by M. R. Golde 4 Stars
January 02, 2009
Upon the first riff all I kept things is "GODDAMN!" It's like it's 1973 all over again and Black Sabbath was making the next Master of Reality. Sleep takes the production values of the aforementioned record and further exploits slower tempos & jamming that feels focused for the most part. Occasionally getting carried away with meandering here and there for the most part this cd feels like a breath of fresh air from the early 90's perspective. It feels vintage but done in way that's playing homage to what was so cool about early stoner rock like Sabbath, Cream perhaps Humble Pie and gives a lower tuned doomier feel...Great stuff. Stand out track: "Dragonaut"
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Stairway to Heaven's Gate by Surferofromantica (Singapore) 5 Stars
December 26, 2008
If you ever wished that Black Sabbath had released more albums, you need to hear Sleep, which comes pretty close to replicating the sound of Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward as you can imagine, only without the distinctive wail of Ozzy Osbourne. Also comes complete with corny doom-laden lyrics, although without the occult imagery. Great grungy heavy slow plodding stuff.
Starts off well, but whacked out songs like "Inside the Sun" are a bit corny. "Dragonaut" (Supernaut?) is bluesy and reminds of Clutch. "The Druid" is bluesy and also reminds of Clutch. "Evil Gypsy/Solomon's Theme" is kind of like Sabbath meets Metallica. Breathless and hoarse yelling over primitive heavy riffs. "Some Grass" is a 48-second interlude that sounds like those pretty little medieval things that Tony Iommi put on some albums, although maybe it's more like Zeppelin than Sabbath. "Holy Mountain" is the real thing - plodding, bottom-heavy, droning, grooving, fun!
Lyrically, the band likes to use the word "stoned" a lot. "Look onto the rays of the new stoner sun rising" and "Stoner caravan from deep space arrives." The band gets pretty wild, saying stuff like "Within the center of the Galaxy, Awway from Earth and all its misery/ Pressing on into the burning sky/ Burning spaceship its time to die," predicting the whole Heaven's Gate cult thing somehow... Unfortunately the song itself, "Inside the Sun," is really irritating with its sound tunnel voice effects...
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