In 2003, Sleep entered the pantheon of Metal legend when they released their magnum opus: Dopesmoker. This mystical desert journey that's a 1:1:3 ratio of ancient spirituality, Black Sabbath style heaviness, and WEED, is considered by many to be one of the most important contributions to the Stoner Metal subgenre. Mostly comprised of one long song- which itself is mostly comprised of one main riff- it's a hypnotic headbanger that weaves through fuzzy guitars and gutteral vocals to provide you ... read more

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Sherzinho

Reviewing Rollingstone.com’s The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time #62

Apparently this took four years to write and record.

It took me only four minutes to realise it's utter garbage.

9mo

vibrantwave

managed to get in 3 album listens while travelling to barcelona :)

the quality of this album is great, but this is INSANELY repetitive 😭 every song sounds exactly the same, it also has too long of a runtime, it would be better with a shorter runtime for sure

10mo

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ilovegybe

better than dopesmoker

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snailll

this is MASSIVE. it's a bit more concise than the 2012 version, with a runtime of only 52 minutes across one song instead of 1 hour and ~11 minutes across two, but it makes up for it in sound. the vocals sound more aggressive here somehow, the production generally is more raw, and the guitar and bass tones sound vast and lumbering.
if you give this some shit like a 10 and say its boring you NEED to lock in

8mo