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Sleep Announce First Album in Eight Years
Sleep, the influential stoner doom-metal band, have announced Hempispheres, their first new album in eight years, due out on 30 October via Third Man Records. It marks the group's first record with its refreshed line-up of Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover alongside long-standing frontman Al Cisneros, following on from 2018's The Sciences.
The album will feature the previously released single "Have Spacesuit Will Travel" as well as a new track, "The Morrisist". Hempispheres comprises five songs in total, and the band are also set to head out on an extensive headlining tour next month.
In short
- Sleep announce new album Hempispheres, out 30 October
- First LP with new members Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover
- Band embark on headlining tour next month
Explained simply
Sleep are a band known for stoner doom metal, a style that pairs slow, heavy guitar music with long, often drawn-out songs. The group’s long-standing frontman is Al Cisneros, and its earlier album The Sciences came out in 2018.
The new record is the first with a refreshed line-up that includes guitarist Bubba Dupree and drummer Dale Crover alongside Cisneros. Third Man Records is releasing it, and the band’s planned tour gives listeners a chance to hear the new material live.