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Sleep Holy Mountain Test Press

By b. murphy | Published 01/03/2012

At first blush, this Sleep test pressing seems like something that should be jumped all over. And then you realize it isn’t the original Earache pressing, but the 2007 Kreation Records pressing. Eh. Still, pretty cool if you are down for Sleep. Grab this one from dead-bubba.

Volume 2

By cooch | Published 03/13/2011

Here’s an original of Sleep’s super rare debut 7″ courtesy of recklessrecords in Chicago (what up Jeff Johns). This thing never pops up, since it was pressed in Europe… and as everyone knows Sleep main man Matt Pike went on to High On Fire, so all the johnny-come-lately doomers out there are looking for this thing and making it even harder to get your hands on.

Off The Disk was a pretty cool label that I always thought were a bit ahead of the curve, doing early releases for Sleep, Morbid Angel, Infest, etc. They recently did a 6×7″ box set containing remastered reissues of all of their early 7″s, which is a cool idea since a few of the 7″s in the set fetch big dough on their own.

sometimes you just need more SLEEP!

By Josh | Published 03/08/2010

Sleep may not have invented ‘stoner metal’ but they might have perfected it! Holy Mountain is definilty my favorite record of the genre.

1 – Here is a pretty awesome test press of the original Earache pressing. I made a best offer of $100, but it was declined. : (

2 – A sealed green vinyl copy from the Earache 2nd press. Limited to 1000 on green and 1000 on what they claim is 220 gram black vinyl.

3 – Last is a blue/red mix vinyl copy from the 2007 Kreation Records repress. Seller says this colver version is limited to only 250 copies.

the Holy Mountain…

By Josh | Published 02/13/2010

There is no denying the power of SLEEP. If you havent heard them then Holy Mountain is a great place to start… if you have heard them and you’re not a fan then I’m sorry for you. Slow, dirgy, powerful, fuzzedout, Sabbath-esc stoner metal…. its just freeking awesome!

I dont know whats out there for original presses of this record, but this is a re-release colored vinyl (not sure what the color is) version limited to 1000 from Earache Records.

*I planned for there to be 2 links in this post. 1 to the colored vinyl re-release and 1 to a picture disc version that the seller claimed was limited to 250 copies. Unfortunantly the color vinyl was a BIN and it sold before I could finish posting this! Definitly a nice score for someone if it really is that limited!