SLEEP TERROR

Progressive Metal / Death Metal • United States
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Sleep Terror is a technical/experimental metal band from Seattle, Washington. They fuse the heaviest elements of technical music with the lightest streams of jazz, funk, trance, hardcore, progressive and everything in between.

Members: Luke Jaeger - Guitars, Bass, Keyboards, Drum sampling David McGraw - Drums

Sleep Terror is now in a transition stage, and is on pause from touring and live performances due to financial restrictions, and Luke wanting to pursue his solo-project.
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SLEEP TERROR Probing Tranquility album cover 2.79 | 3 ratings
Probing Tranquility
Progressive Metal 2006
SLEEP TERROR Unihemispheria album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Unihemispheria
Progressive Metal 2015
SLEEP TERROR Above Snakes album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Above Snakes
Progressive Metal 2021

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SLEEP TERROR Ascetic Meditation album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Ascetic Meditation
Death Metal 2005
SLEEP TERROR El Insomne album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
El Insomne
Progressive Metal 2018
SLEEP TERROR Abreaction album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Abreaction
Progressive Metal 2019

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SLEEP TERROR Paraphile album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Paraphile
Death Metal 2002
SLEEP TERROR Demo album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Demo
Death Metal 2004

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SLEEP TERROR The Cuts 2004-2010 album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
The Cuts 2004-2010
Death Metal 2010

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SLEEP TERROR Probing Tranquility

Album · 2006 · Progressive Metal
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Conor Fynes
'Probing Tranquillity' - Sleep Terror (5/10)

Playing in the instrumental tech metal style that has picked up speed over the past decade, Sleep Terror is a one man project of guitarist Luke Jaeger. Although it was once a full band, Sleep Terror fell apart, but Luke decided to keep going with his music under the same name. Although I have not heard Sleep Terror in its full-band incarnation, I imagine that a host of musicians may have benefited the music on 'Probing Tranquillity' over one guy doing everything. Luke Jaeger's guitar work is impressive, but the composition here seems like a playground for his shredding ability and technical skills rather than an artistic fulfilment.

Eeking just over the half hour line, 'Probing Tranquillity' is a short, unrelenting dive into jazz- influenced shred metal. Although the album is split into a number of two minute tracks, it all flows as one running composition. However, speaking it terms of its structure, 'Probing Tranquillity' never feels like a well composed epic, but rather drawing comparisons to a sample catalogue. There are no recurring melodies; nothing that will hook a listener in. Although Luke Jaeger is evidently trying to create a tongue-in-cheek caricature of instrumental tech death, it would have benefited the musical experience if there was something more to it.

Although the ideas are sporadic, they are often very similar. Sleep Terror's sound falls in between Malmsteen's school of shred metal, and an energetic slant of rhythmic metal that could be compared to Meshuggah or a slew of modern technical death metal bands. In short, the sound is something I have heard many times before. Where Sleep Terror works well however, is Luke Jaeger's performance itself. 'Probing Tranquillity' feels a little one-sided in its devotion to guitar, but that's where Luke's talent lies; in the guitar. He is able to solo in both the jazz and metal styles quite well, but as my impression of Sleep Terror indicates, there is more needed than musical skill to foster lasting enjoyment in an album.

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