Sleep - Dopesmoker 2LP International It’s a testament to Smith’s

It’s a testament to Smith’s volcanic creativity that he recorded not one but two soul jazz classics — Midnight Special and Back at the Chicken Shack — when he entered Rudy Van Gelder’s studio on April 25

Real Rock-n-Roll bad boys that harness ten times the power your average Straight-Edge band could ever hope to achieve

I think Stockhausen’s excessive notes are fairly helpful – they helped me understand why a band like Salmon Graveyard would allow their guitar player to use so much glissandi

It’s like if the techno remnants of early Downwards Records and Regis/Surgeon collaborations have been gracefully destroyed into a fluid rhythmical rural dreamland

much worse

Sleep - Dopesmoker 2LP International It’s a testament to Smith’sRecorded in 1996 and not released (in slightly different edit mix) until 1999 under the title Jerusalem, the legend and lore behind Dopesmoker would overshadow an LP of any lesser significance. But the 63 minute magnum opus dedicated exclusively to the sacrament of marijuana is not just the pinnacle of the goofily named stoner metal genreits inarguably one of the most important and influential albums of all time.