Jerusalem and Dopesmoker

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Jerusalem and Dopesmoker
Sleep-dopesmoker.jpg
Dopesmoker (2003) album cover
Studio album by
Released1999
April 22, 2003
Recorded1996
StudioRecord Two Studio in Comptche, California
Genre
Length52:08
73:07
75:09
Label Rise Above/The Music Cartel
Tee Pee
Producer Billy Anderson , Sleep
Sleep chronology
Sleep's Holy Mountain
(1992)
''Jerusalem and Dopesmoker''
(1999/2003)
The Sciences
(2018)
Reissue cover
Dopesmoker (Reissue).jpeg
Dopesmoker (2012) album cover

Personnel

Sleep

Jerusalem

See also

Notes

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