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Sleep is a Doom metal act. Their sound grew out of Third Man Records, Josh Martinez, Abstract Rude, Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath. Those roots explain a lot about how Sleep arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Church of Misery, Kyuss, Crowbar, Acid Bath and The Sword, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Flooding, Cheap Perfume, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, Monster Magnet and Earache Records, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 20 connections around Sleep, reaching back through Third Man Records and forward to Flooding. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Sleep connections
Sleep grew out of Third Man Records, Josh Martinez, Abstract Rude and Saint Vitus, shares an orbit with Church of Misery, Kyuss, Crowbar and Acid Bath, went on to shape Flooding, Cheap Perfume, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien and Monster Magnet. 20 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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