After the doom metal band Sleep broke up, singer Al Cisneros stopped recording music and became a chess teacher. "I played a lot when I was a kid, then played in tournaments," Cisneros says. A friend ...

Emil Amos: We were really happy. We were psyched. It was the first time I saw Emil play as a member of Om and my first thoughts were of your drumming style and how bombastic it kinda is… especially ...

Al Cisneros of Om/Sleep/Shrinebuilder quietly released a pair of 7″s on his own Sinai imprint, but now is preparing to go wider with a new effort with Drag City ...

I’m sad that Sleep seems to be somewhat on pause and I’m a little annoyed that OM seems to take forever between albums these days, but it is nice that even though bassist Al Cisneros isn’t pushing his ...

Meditative, restrained, and minimalist aren’t adjectives typically associated with heavy music in general or heavy metal in particular. But there’s little typical about the hypnotic, brain-scrambling ...

So remember how the Melvins and Sleep’s Al Cisneros were teasing a collaborative new two-song 10″ called Sabbath? Well, half of that release has now debuted — specifically, a cover of Black Sabbath’s ...

In the history of stoner metal, there has never been a lyric more thoroughly crucial than “Drop out of life with bong in hand / follow the smoke to the riff-filled land” from the title track on ...

It would appear that the Melvins and Sleep bassist Al Cisneros (also of OM and Shrinebuilder fame) are going to release a collaborative new two-song 10″ entitled Sabbath. Rumblings of the news began ...

Al Cisneros of stoner titans Sleep and Emil Amos have created a sonic masterpiece with Advaitic Songs. Om don’t really seem to fit into a genre, they shouldn’t. Genre classifications are useless here, ...

Recently, before Matt Pike was hospitalised and then went into rehab, Sleep played in Berlin’s notorious techno club the Berghain. (We’re pretty sure these two events were not related, by the way.) ...