Volume One is the debut album by the American

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 band Sleep

Sleep (band)

Sleep is a stoner doom metal band from San Jose, California. Active during the 1990s, Sleep earned critical and record label attention early in their career. Critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes them as "perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band" and notes they exerted a strong influence on heavy metal...

. It was the only album recorded with original guitarist Justin Marler

Justin Marler

Justin Marler is an American musician and author. He is known for being a founding member of the seminal doom metal band Sleep, and for leaving a burgeoning career in music to become a monk in an Eastern Orthodox monastery...

, before he became an Orthodox monk. Volume One showcases a darker sound and stronger doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 influence than Sleep's later work. The image featured on the cover is taken from the Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Domènec Felip Jacint Dalí i Domènech, Marquis de Púbol , commonly known as Salvador Dalí , was a prominent Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres,Spain....

 painting "Soft Self-Portrait with Fried Bacon".

Track listing

1. "Stillborn" - 6:18
2. "The Suffering" - 5:12
3. "Numb" - 3:30
4. "Anguish" - 5:37
5. "Catatonic" - 6:04
6. "Nebuchadnezzar's Dream" - 4:47
7. "The Wall of Yawn" - 5:32
8. "Prey" - 3:46
9. "Scourge" - 5:02

Credits

• Al Cisneros
  Al Cisneros
  Al Cisneros |Sleep]], Om, Shrinebuilder, and Asbestosdeath.-Biography:He began his musical career in 1989 by founding a local punk metal band, Asbestosdeath, along with Chris Hakius , Matt Pike and Tom Choi . Cisneros performed bass guitar for the band, and they released two EPs in 1990...
  
   - bass guitar
  Bass guitar
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  , vocals
• Matt Pike
  Matt Pike
  Matt Pike is an American rock musician best known as the guitarist of the influential doom metal band Sleep and frontman of High on Fire. He is quite well known in the metal scene for almost never wearing a shirt during live performances....
  
   - electric guitar
  Electric guitar
  An electric guitar is a guitar that uses the principle of direct electromagnetic induction to convert vibrations of its metal strings into electric audio signals. The signal generated by an electric guitar is too weak to drive a loudspeaker, so it is amplified before sending it to a loudspeaker...
  
  
• Justin Marler
  Justin Marler
  Justin Marler is an American musician and author. He is known for being a founding member of the seminal doom metal band Sleep, and for leaving a burgeoning career in music to become a monk in an Eastern Orthodox monastery...
  
   - electric guitar
• Chris Hakius
  Chris Hakius
  Chris Hakius was the drummer of band Sleep. After Sleep's break up, he became the drummer for The Sabians, with former Sleep member Justin Marler. He was also the drummer of Om, until his departure on January 31, 2008. His final live performances was with Sleep in 2009 at the ATP Show for the reunion...
  
   - drums
  Drum kit
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