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News : US Doom metallers SLEEP touring Australia this December

By on August 22, 2014

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US stoner/doom metal legends SLEEP have announced headline club shows across Australia to coincide with their upcoming Meredith Music Festival appearance this December. Kicking off in Melbourne at the Corner Hotel, the band will venture across Australia to Sydney. Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.

Saturday December 6 – Corner Hotel, Melbourne
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Monday December 8 – The Bakery, Perth
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Tuesday December 9 – Fowlers Live, Adelaide
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Thursday December 11 – Crowbar, Brisbane
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Friday December 12 – Meredith Music Festival

Saturday December 13 – Manning Bar, Sydney
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Tickets on sale now from Lifeisnoise.com

Check out the band’s latest offering ‘The Clarity’.

In 2012, Southern Lord reissued Dopesmoker – in full, remastered and over an hour in length, the way it was meant to be heard. Finally, Sleep were getting the recognition they so sorely deserved 15 years ago. Finally, we got to feel the massive vibrations of stoner doom’s greatest power trio through a smoke-filled haze.

Sleep had the nerve, the inclination, and most of all the patience to play things slow and steady. Dopesmoker took a whole genre to its apocalyptic endpoint. It’s an album of endless pleasures, and its arcane, foggy-headed mysteries never stop revealing themselves. – The A.V. Club

Now in 2014, Sleep looks like a super group. After their dissolution, vocalist and bassist Al Cisneros blazed trails with the rhythmic droning of OM. Matt Pike continued his devotional study of The Riff as the spiritual successor to both Lemmy and Iommi through sludge metal power trio High on Fire. Founding drummer Chris Hakius has since retired from touring but filling his huge shoes is Jason Roeder, who’s spent almost 30 years blowing minds behind the kit in Neurosis.

No matter how many times they had to record or rehearse Dopesmoker to master it, or no matter how much pressure London placed on them to make something more commercial than personal, Sleep sound as if their very existence depends upon the successful exercise of this weed ritual. – Pitchfork

Sleep live is like mass hypnosis – a psychic trip of gargantuan proportions under the guidance of three sonic shamans. There’s never been a better time to be a Sleep fan. Prepare to ascend the Holy Mountain.

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