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As the only album to see official release during Sleep's tenure, SLEEP'S HOLY MOUNTAIN epitomized the moment when stoner metallers learned to stop worrying and openly, unapologetically ape Black Sabbath. Not that there's anything wrong with that. With a thudding pace, Ozzy-esque vocals, song titles like "The Druid," and layers of Blue Cheer-like fuzz-wah, guitarist Mike Pike, bassist Al Cisneros, and drummer Chris Hakius gleefully reanimate the corpse of vintage Sabbath throughout the album's nine tracks. While not as revolutionary as its follow-up, DOPESMOKER (released long after the trio broke up), or as high-octane as Pike's later project, High on Fire, the album features monumental riffing and enveloping, bong-friendly production. A highly satisfying, accessible slice of doom metal.
Recorded at Razors Edge, San Francisco, California.
Sleep: Al Cisneros (vocals, bass); Matt Pike (guitar); Chris Hakius (drums).
Sleep Holy Mountain Songs Holy Mountain Music Review Average Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars)   BLAZE A WHOLE SACK.
If heaviness is next to godliness....
then this is the sound of lords.
I CAN ONLY BOW DOWN, AND OFFER PRAISE.
Submitted by j.wall (from Jerusalem)
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 Sounds like Black Sabbath!
This cd really sounds a lot like Black Sabbath, especially how the vocals are pronounced by the singer. Sometimes it's kind of repetitive but everyone who likes Black Sab style rock ans stoner rock in general is gonna love this one.
Submitted by senile animal (California) 
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Deep Sleep
Heavy, thick, fat, dense. Vocals are kind of weird (annoying) sometimes. I'd almost prefer it be an instrumental. That's the only thing preventing me from giving it 5 stars. If you like stuff from the Sabbath wanna-be genre, this should be at the top of your list.
Submitted by a reviewer (Buffalo, NY)
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This is one of the best bands in the "stoner rock" genre!! Rip a coupla bongloads,pop this bad boy in, and crank it up loud !! You will not be disappointed.
Submitted by FUZZMONGER13 (CONCORD,NOR' CACALACKY)
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Purchase Holy Mountain CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Sleep Volume One CD (1991)
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For all their budding, precocious talent, Sleep's 1991 debut, Volume One, quickly betrays their still quite heavy debt to doom metal forefathers like Black Sabbath, Witchfinder, and Saint Vitus. Driven by Matt Pike and Justin Marler's lumbering mass of low-tuned guitar riffs, Al Cisneros' (still going as Luke here) serpentine bass and ragged screams, and drummer Chris Haikus' cyclopean kit pummeling, occasional highlights such as "The Suffering," "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream," and "The ...
| | Kyuss Sky Valley CD (1994)
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After creating a classic with their second album, Blues for the Red Sun, desert metal gods Kyuss faced the unenviable task of delivering the goods once again for a new label, Elektra Records. And they almost pulled it off with 1994's stellar Welcome to Sky Valley. The album's 13 songs are divided into three "suites" which fully display the band's impressive creative range, from furious metal to psychedelic grooves, and anything in between. The first and most consistent of these suites starts with the huge guitar riff of "Gardenia" (which resembles molten lava flowing down the side of a volcano), continues into the moody space jam instrumental "Asteroid," and culminates ...
| | Sleep Jerusalem CD (1999)
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While plenty of indie rock bands are held high as symbols of creative freedom and integrity, few acts of any genre were willing to stand by their vision with the iron determination of California stoner rock titans Sleep. After the release of their second album, 1993's Sleep's Holy Mountain, the group was offered a lucrative major-label deal, supposedly in the mid-six figures; they accepted, and after spending a large portion of their advance on vintage amps and high-grade marijuana, Sleep retreated to the studio to record their definitive musical statement. The trouble began when Sleep turned the finished product in to their new patrons -- the album featured just one song, an epic-length paean to weed and bludgeoning guitar riffs called "Dopesmoker" that clocked in at a colossal 63 minutes. The label deemed the album un-releasable in its original form, and after much argument Sleep offered a compromised version; the song and the album were retitled "Jerusalem," the single composition was split into six identically named movements (though on CD they still played together as one heroic track), and the whole was trimmed to a more efficient 52 minutes. This hardly placated the label's marketing people, and from this point ...
| | High On Fire Surrounded By Thieves CD (2002)
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Matt Pike might be the most metal person alive. His dogmatic refusal to kowtow to trends is unparalleled for a relative young'un. He was stoner before stoner was cool (for the second time) with Sleep, and with High On Fire, he adds a speedy dimension, yet retains that doomsaying guitar tone that's thicker than a sumo wrestler's ankles, showing that going somewhere fast beats going nowhere slow more often than not. On sophomore release Surrounded By Thieves, the first, second, and third thing you hear is his guitar, a solidly packed continuous riff that sounds ...
| | Lamb Of God - Killadelphia DVD (2005)
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Metal band Lamb of God may hail from Richmond, Virginia, but their dark brand of melodic thrash pits ...
| | Electric Wizard Dopethrone CD (2000) Bonus Tracks; Remastered; Digipak
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As Deep Purple's Roger Glover once said, "Heavy isn't about volume, it's about attitude." And no band better illustrates this statement than England's Electric Wizard -- the reputed heaviest band in the universe -- whose every album has managed to push the boundaries of down-tuned, grinding, monolithic doom metal to unprecedented depths. Sure, they pack plenty of volume as well, but none of it could possibly work without the band's uncompromising worship of weed and all things gothic and malevolent. After a long hiatus (during which they were no doubt traveling the cosmos without ever leaving their parent's basements or putting down their bongs), Electric Wizard finally returned to action in the year 2000. The resulting dirge masterpiece, Dopethrone, delivers walls of sound so dense that at first they seem too big to fit into your ears. At a paltry three minutes, the opener "Vinum Sabbathi" may be the Wizards' first true candidate for an actual "single," but it really serves as a teaser for what's to come. Introduced by short spoken intros taken from B-movies a la White Zombie, extended riff-monsters ...
| | Ska Bonanza: The Studio One Ska Years CDs (1991)
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Contains 41 rare tracks, some previously unissued, circa 1961.
41-song, double-CD compilation of '60s ska, produced by Clement S. Dodd, largely (if not totally; the documentation is vague) at Studio One. Most of the big names of ska's vintage era are represented: Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Skatalites, Lee Perry, Don Drummond, Toots & the Maytals, Alton Ellis. Considering that ska's sometimes thought of as a homogenous style, the range of actual sounds and variants is impressive. There's New Orleans R&B-derivations, doo-wop-influenced ska, Motownish uptempo struts, soulful slower tunes, and instrumentals. ...
| | Don Howland Land Beyond The Mountains CD (2002)
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| | Erik Tagg Dream Walkin' CD (2006) (Import) Japan; Germany
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| | Reba Mcentire #1'S CDs (2005)
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With her own her own TV sitcom and a recording career that dates back to the late 1970s, Reba McEntire is undisputedly one of country music's most popular entertainers. Although there have been numerous collections of McEntire's singles, this two-disc set is the first to span more than 20 years of her hits. With the exception of two new recordings (the thoughtful "You're Gonna Be" and the energetic "Love Needs a Holiday," which appear at the beginning of the first and second discs, respectively), this compilation moves chronologically from 1982 to 2005, ...
| | Rotting Christ Passage To Arcturo CD (2006)
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Few people realize that Greece's Rotting Christ started out as a grindcore band in 1988, but then how could they when the group's first widely distributed recordings from four years later -- the ...
| | Monolith Talisman CD (2006)
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| | Perfect Playlist: Techno Vol. 1 CD (2007)
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