![]() ![]() ![]() Now, nearly two decades later, the album has been re-released under its original album title, Dopesmoker, to much acclaim. The deal fell apart, the band broke up, and Jerusalem circulated the metal underground in various bootleg forms for years until its officially licensed release in 1998. ![]() The band, in turn, refused the studio’s efforts to carve up and master the original track. When the recording was complete, London Records dubbed the track “unlistenable” and refused to put it out. During two month-long recording sessions, they recorded a single, hour-long song filled with slow, churning guitars and monotonic chants having something to do with a new race of “Weedians.” Throughout the recording process, the song (which in various forms the band had played live for several years) evolved: it got longer and, in the words of bassist Matt Pike “ It got weird.” Instead, they blew most of the $75,000 advance on custom guitars, high-end amplifiers, and lots of marijuana. One of the great legends of heavy metal music history goes like this: In the early 1990s, a little known three-piece band from San Jose, California named Sleep worked out a deal with London Records to produce their third album, Jerusalem, which included the rare luxury of maintaining full creative control. What follows is a guest post by Jay Miller. ![]()
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