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Originally Posted by Janszoon
I love High On Fire and I love Sleep, but they're two completely different moods for me. I can't imagine substituting one for the other. Where High On Fire are high octane rock 'n roll that makes me want to drive fast, Sleep, especially on Dopesmoker, are vast and almost meditative. The mood of the album is similar to Tuvan throat singing to me. It's not surprising that two thirds of Sleep went on to form the very meditative band Om.
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Yeah, you're right, High on Fire was a bad example. I'd forgotten how much fast paced Motörhead inspiration was fueling that band.
I'm just so bored by this Sleep album. The whole "let's play this riff for one hour" gimmick and the way Matt Pike is literally singing just one note for the duration is just impossible for me to appreciate. It's just not how I listen to music.
I'd probably get along better with both other Sleep albums and other somewhat similar bands.
It's just that I'm not a fan of stoner and sludge metal to begin with. At all.
So an album like Dopesmoker just has "no" written all over it. I don't even think the 1 is an overreaction. I don't get anything out of the album at all.