Sleep Announce First Live Shows Since Hiatus
Kudos to Sleep on deciding to take the right two years off. The Sabbathian heirs announced their indefinite hiatus — they made it fun by calling it ‘Hypersleep’ — in November 2019, and, well, if you’ve been alive in the time since, you know how well the world has fared without them.
Their return for three shows next April — two in Colorado, one in New Mexico — is only welcome. No idea what it’ll lead to in terms of touring or anything — Matt Pike has a book of his lyrics coming out and I think High on Fire are due to release an album — but what the hell, three dates are better than none.
The band’s latest album, The Sciences (review here), as well as the companion single “Leagues Beneath” (discussed here), were released in 2018, and followed by the encompassing 3LP live outing, Live at Third Man Records (review here), the next year. The live record(s) was a fitting capper to a run that began with shows a decade earlier that introduced Sleep, long thought of as gone forever as their mythos grew in the digital/social media age, to an entirely new generation of fans. It seemed time had done precious little to dull their impact, and with Neurosis‘ Jason Roeder stepping in on drums alongside Pike‘s guitar and the bass and vocals of Al Cisneros — whose impact with Om in the interim years isn’t to be understated — they had a unifying factor around which to rally the varied on-stage personae between the two founding members.
In a live setting and on The Sciences — not to forget the may-it-be-perpetually-reissued 2014 single, “The Clarity” (review here) — Sleep both justified and added to their legend. May they continue to do so for as long as they find it vaguely interesting and/or lucrative:
Hello Denver, Colorado Springs and Albuquerque. We will be seeing you soon in 2022. Tickets on sale Friday 10/29 at 9a PST/10a MST. Praise Iommi.
Sleep are:
Al Cisneros
Matt Pike
Jason Roeder
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