Godsleep - Thousand Sons Of Sleep

Could Greece be the new California? During the last few years I’ve discovered a great number of stoner rock groups from this country and I confess I was truly amazed by the quality and groove of some of these artists like 100Moods, Planet Zeus and Craang just to name a few.

We can now add Godsleep, an Athens-based quartet, to that growing list. Not only their debut “Thousand Sons Of Sleep” displays a stunningly groovy and infectious combination of sludge, stoner and psychedelic-rock, it sounds as if it was forged in the heart of New Orleans or Palm Desert such is the influence that bands like Down, Crowbar and Kyuss have over the Greeks. They surely made no effort to camouflage their influences and that’s not necessarily a bad thing, especially if we’re talking about stoner rock and we know that everything circles back to Black Sabbath, it’s inevitable.


“Thousand Sons Of Sleep” starts with the laid-back, almost ritualistic “The Call”, merging bluesy guitars with trance-like rhythms and the throaty vocals of Kostas, who sounds like a shaman summoning some ancient spiritual forces.
Thereon, things get a bit heavier with riffs becoming monstrous slabs of groove, rhythms that hammer the senses with blind fury and raspy vocalizations that recall Phil Anselmo’s raspy, whiskey-soaked singing.

Yes, it’s a formula that has been repeated countless times before, but when it sounds this good, who the hell cares?

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