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Sleep To Embark On Canadian Tour

Stoner metal titans Sleep are heading to Canada.

Sleep To Embark On Canadian Tour
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Alex Brown

Californian stoner metal legends Sleep have been on their grind since the release of their comeback record, The Sciences, last year. Now, the trio will be doing a tour in Canada, with direct support from Virginia-based psychedelic rockers Pontiak.

Tickets will go on sale this Friday, May 24th, at 10am PDT. The dates are as follows:

September:

01 - Victoria - Capital Ballroom
02 - Vancouver - Commodore Ballroom
03 - Nelson - Spiritbar
04 - Calgary - The Palace Theatre
05 - Edmonton - TBD
07 - Saskatoon - Coors Event Centre
08 - Winnipeg - The Garrick
11 - Guelph - Guelph Concert Theatre
12 - Ottawa - Algonquin Commons Theatre
13 - Montreal - MTelus
14 - Quebec City - Imperial Bell
16 - Halifax - Marquee Ballroom

This tour will be following their upcoming trek in the United States with Seattle-based stoner crew Big Business, which is coming up pretty quickly. Dates for that tour are listed below:

May 2019

27 - Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl
28 - Salt Lake City, UT – Metro Music Hall
29 - Boulder, CO – Boulder Theatre
31 - Omaha, NE – Slowdown

June 2019

01 - Minneapolis, MN – – First Avenue
02 - Maquoketa, IA – Codfish Hollow Barn
03 - Madison, WI – The Sylvee
05 - Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection
06 - Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom
07 - Albany, NY -Skyloft
08 - Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Soundstage
09 - Charlottesville, VA – Jefferson Theatre
11 - Charlotte, NC – Neighborhood Theatre
12 - Knoxville, TN – The Mill & Mine
13 - Nashville, TN – Marathon Music Works
14 - Birmingham, AL – Saturn
15 - Athens, GA – 40 Watt
17 - Tampa, FL – The Ritz
18 - Miami, FL – The Ground

When guitarist and Sleep mastermind Matt Pike sat down to talk with Kerrang!, he spoke about the inception of the band, saying, “For the first Sleep record [1991’s Volume One] we had another guitar player called Justin Marler, but he became a monk on Kodiak Island for the Russian Orthodox Church or something like that. From then on we were a three-piece, and it worked out better for me because I think it made me up my game as a guitar player. It put more of the responsibility and the challenge on my shoulders.”

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