Visual Evidence: Sleep Take a Personal Journey through Carl Sagan’s Cosmos
How desperate are we for new Sleep? Desperate enough that even a new promo shot earns its own post, thank you very much. Hell, it’s already the best-reviewed stoner metal band pic of 2012!
In the shot below, we see Sleep — drummer Jason Roeder (left), guitarist Matt Pike (right), bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros (bottom) — paying homage to Carl Sagan’s Cosmos with, among other things, righteous turtleneckage.
I ask you, what’s not to love?
I can’t confirm this and I’m sure how you would, but I think Matt Pike sweater is supposed to be an homage to Neil DeGrasse Tyson. But that could me wish-thinking. I think I’ve seen him wear a sweater like that…
Best Photograph Ever.
HAHAHA that’s an awesome tribute. No one has seen or lived inside of the Sun like these guys have though! haha I love some Astronomy and Sleep manage to capture the feeling of space like no other, so this is really fitting form.
Somebody just lock these dudes in a jam room with a garbage bag full of weed and keep the tape rolling, how hard is that? Presto, new fucking SLEEP.
Nah dude, Sagan wore way more turtlenecks than Neil DeGrasse Tyson does. Like turtlenecks all the time. Plus unrelatedly Sagan was proto Tyson.
Plus their new song is apparently called “…And Sagan”, which hints at Sagan worship. Hail Sagan.