Well, it’s that time of year again when we here at the Live4ever Ezine begin to trail back through 12 months worth of musical delights in a vain attempt to group our favourites of 2011 into some sort of coherent list we like to call Live4ever’s Essential Listening.
The saga of San Jose stoner rock titans Sleep is as strange and sordid as the slow, dread-ridden dirges that they have become known for throughout the course of their convoluted career.
From their inauspicious beginnings as anarcho-punk band Asbestosdeath to their premature dissolution and subsequent decade-plus of inactivity, the …