#dopesmoker

[unsafe1]

Going to sleven, who wants anything?

#r/196 #196 #dopesmoker #seven eleven #r/196archive

[ezti56]

The doom metal Venn-diagram™

#doom metal #black sabbath #stoner metal #metal #dopesmoker #electric wizard #dopethrone #candlemass #epicus doomicus metallicus #wizard

[xray-vex]

*Loud Stoner Music Playing*

#happy 420 #420 #dopesmoker #edward teach #ofmd meme #ofmd 420 #weed #loud stoner music playing

[rastronomicals]

9:17 PM EDT April 26, 2024:

Sleep - "Sonic Titan" From the album Dopesmoker (April 22, 2003)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Album Titles Which Likely Describe The Album Listener     

--

#Sleep #Dopesmoker #Sonic Titan

[scoop16]

#sleep #dopesmoker #vinyl #third man records #the vault #vinyl records #weedian #art #arik roper #green vinyl #box set

[black]

#music #sleep #dopesmoker #420 #Bandcamp #obligatory

[theartofmetal]

258. Dopesmoker - Sleep (Stoner/Doom Metal, 2022 Reissue/Album from 2003)

Art by Doug Ebright

#metal #stoner metal #doom metal #art #artwork #music #painting #illustration #drawing #heavy music #artist #cover art #heavy #dopesmoker #sleep #desert #united states #usa #california

[metalkilltheking]

1999. Dopesmoker

Jerusalem and Dopesmoker are two versions of the third album by the band Sleep. The former title was released in 1999 by The Music Cartel and the latter was released by Tee Pee Records in 2003. The music for these albums comprises an extended hour-length piece (either split into multiple shorter tracks or presented as a single track), developed over four years and recorded in 1996 under the auspices of Sleep's label at the time, London Records.

Dopesmoker is an album few bands are afforded to make. Consisting of an hour plus long song it's a large deviation from the format of the very successful Holy Mountain.

For those willing to open their minds to a little experimentation in the metal realm it can be a hugely rewarding listen. However it's understandable that some people dismiss this album as overindulgent, overlong and boring.

For me it's the soundtrack to the journey that your mind will take you on, through the desert of monolithic rock and a caravan of `weedians' travelling to the holy land. Let your mind fill in the imagery and enjoy the heaviness that beams from the guitars and the groove of the drums. The repetitiveness of the riffs offers a kind of meditation to the song with breaks and deviations to stop it getting too repetitive.

Al Cisneros Matt Pike Chris Hakius

#Dopesmoker #sleep #sleep band #1999 #Al Cisneros #Matt Pike #Chris Hakius

[ninevoltheartmusic]

Listen to Dopesmoker. I mean it.

I never would've thought a 63-minute song would be my thing. 63 minutes of droning guitars, minimal, repetitive lyrics, and only slight changes between sections – I'm pretty sure a younger version of myself might have wondered if that even qualifies as music in the first place. While I was sceptical the first time I listened to it, Sleep's Dopesmoker (1998) has quickly become one of my favourite albums. It's a soundtrack to a meditative flow state that reminds me to find nuance in repetition, to pay attention to the details, and to breathe through it all.

When I hit my thirties, I almost immediately started taking supplements, eating more vegetables, and going to bed at the same time every night. My younger self is thoroughly disgusted at these developments. The worst part, though? I started meditating. I didn't take it too seriously at first; it was just another item on the long list of things I've tried in the hopes of improving my mental health. But slowly, it started to become a bigger part of my life, opening my mind to new ideas and possibilities.

The same thing happened with Dopesmoker. I didn't take it seriously the first time I listened to it. It's an hour-long droning song about weed; how good could it possibly be? Then I listened again, and another time, and again after that. Over time, it started to seep in. It started to make sense. I realised it was a much deeper pool than I'd expected when I dove in.

The song has been released as an album in several different iterations, being split up into anywhere from two to eight tracks. It hardly varies from its first muddy, churning notes. The guitars sound like the strings are reverberating off smoke-heavy air, unable to fully resound in the cloud of pot smoke. But rather than that sound feeling constrictive, rather than the repetition feeling like a punishment, it drives forward with every strum. It takes nearly 3 minutes for the drums to kick in, and when they do, you're along for the ride, fully immersed in Sleep's world.

The album artwork tells you all you really need to know about the lyrical story. Figures wander across the desert, Dune-style, wearing stillsuits that recycle pot smoke rather than moisture to keep the wearer perpetually high. The lyrics follow the journey of these hooded figures ("proceeds the Weedian to Nazareth") – and... that's about it. An hour could easily hold an intricate melodrama, introducing a cast of characters and their conflicts, but that's not what happens here. The lyrics offer different iterations of biblical weed-worship, some more coherent than others, but no real narrative unfolds other than the journey through the desert, the recycled smoke, the higher power that can be found if you just "follow the smoke toward the riff-filled land." The repeated sections paint mental images of low sand dunes, only the slightest variation in shape and curvature between them – but it's all still sand.

In many forms of meditation, we focus on the breath as an anchor – whenever your thoughts drift, return to the breath. To keep yourself centred, you can pay attention the subtle differences between breaths, the way the temperature changes on the inhale versus the exhale, the way this breath was a little deeper than the last. Dopesmoker asks its listeners to do something similar. Get curious. Notice the subtle changes. Get lost in the sound; let it surround and consume you and see if you come out the other side with any revelations. The song builds and calms, then builds and calms again, taking long, deep breaths over the course of the hour.

Sound meditation is a variation where instead of the breath, some kind of sound is used as an anchor. This can be white noise, soundscapes – anything, really. Meditators will often listen to gongs, Tibetan bowls, or nature sounds like rain, noticing the details in the sound, coming back to the sound when the mind drifts off. An electric guitar is just as good an anchor as anything else.

For me personally, the song's directive to "drop out of life with bong in hand" doesn't totally resonate. But I think Dopesmoker could almost be about anything and still be equally rich and fascinating. If I focus enough, dropping into that meditative state, the song paints vivid images in my mind, changing over the course of the track and between listens. These images are mostly desert-based, yes, but there are colours and shapes, too. These shapes are mandala-like, with each drumbeat, each guitar strum adding to the repeating shapes behind my eyes.

I keep bothering the people in my life to listen to Dopesmoker because it truly is special and something I think everyone can find something different in. Its layers both relax me and keep me alert, ready for the next guitar solo or section change – a powerful state that is much like that of a good meditation section. It makes me question the boundaries of song and album structures, of lyrics, of what it is a song is really supposed to do.

So I'll say here as well: listen to Dopesmoker. High, sober, whatever – just listen to it. Get lost in it. Step away from the world for 63 minutes and return to real life on a higher plane.

#dopesmoker #sleep #music writing

[standing-in-v-formation]

do you guys remember when gerard tweeted about this song

#dopesmoker #gerard way #Gerard way tweets

[falkonryderz]

Sleep - Dopesmoker / live ‘18

#heavy metal #video #stoner #doom #dopesmoker #sleep #live #Youtube

[uiruu]

i wish i was one of the little Jawa dudes on the cover of Dopesmoker. i think if i was one of them little dopesmokers then maybe my life would have meaning

#sleep #dopesmoker #o

[autodidactadelavida]

Mood.

#hernán andrés polanco vergara #mood #sleep #dopesmoker #Classic #drone #doom

[rastronomicals]

10:40 AM EST March 5, 2024:

Sleep - "Sonic Titan" From the album Dopesmoker (April 22, 2003)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

File under:    Album Titles Which Likely Describe The Album Listener     

--

#Sleep #Dopesmoker #Sonic Titan

[sludgeguttertrash]

You can also find this album under the name “Jerusalem”. If you have free time I’d recommend giving it a listen if you are into slow and heavy/stoner metal. Highly influenced the way I approach guitar to this day. 🖤🤍❤️

#sleep #stoner #stoner metal #dopesmoker #jerusalem #fuzz #amps speak louder than words #heavy metal #record #music #favorite #band #Spotify

[black]

#rush #sleep #moving pictures #the sciences #dopesmoker