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The Sickness
Despite never having been critical favorites
Aesop Rock's Spirit World Field Guide
Date: 06/13/2000
Liner Note Authors: Dick Shurman
VOLUME ONE 6/18/2002 The SicknessFor 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,"