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About Me

DOOM.
Milwaukee's ONLY doom band SLEESTAK.Formed in late 2003 with former members of Sixinch, Atomic Number 9, and Planet Delirium, Sleestak have become one of the midwest's most unique bands, gaining fans in the region and abroad with their metal/psychedelic fused doom rock. Sometimes labeled a "metal jam band", the band often delve into the bluesy realms of improvisation and embrace free-flowing instrumentals, taking the music into epic mind-altering depths. Through live demos and bootlegs over the past couple years, Sleestak have garnered radio play, media praise, and positive comparisons to Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Clutch, Monster Magnet, Isis, Colour Haze, The Melvins, Ten Years After, and other groups that thrive on experimentation, originality, and heaviness.

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Music:

Member Since: 22/03/2005
Band Website: http://sleestakmusic.com
Band Members: Matt Schmitz - vocals/guitar
Dan Bell - bass
Marcus Bartell - drums
Brian Gresser - guitar
Jon Landis - violin

Influences:
Sounds Like: BANDS WE'VE PLAYED WITH:
Carbon Parlor, Earthride, Spiral Trance, Never's Blessing, Planet Delirium, Radiation 4, The Esoteric, Way To Fall, Leviathan's Choir, 1956, Hoss, Swarm Of The Lotus, Pines, Clutch, Fu Manchu, High On Fire, Casual Kill, Whiskey Rebellion, Decapitado, Damn The Gods, Delicious, Audiobon, Mr. Slate, Cynergy 67, Test Site, Hells Cartel, Irock-Z, Snooky, Nomonic, Hex Adjuster, Floating Face Down, Living Dred, The Hidden Hand, Signal To Shore, melk the g6-49, a second from the surface, Birdwing, Under the Surface, Zaius, Salt of the Earth, Gates of Slumber, Yob, Carbellion, Swampp Gass, Leven, Cicero, Arch, Rejection Fetish, Lithic, Ocean, Acid King, Black Cobra, Eternal Elysium, Intronaut, Face Of Ruin, Half Gorilla, Wooden Robot, Middian, Put Her In The Trunk, China Pig, Evenstar, and I'm sure there's more...
Record Label: Altrusian Grace Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Members Section

Our Members Section over at sleestakmusic.com is up and running. Its only $5 to join and gives you unlimited access to all things Sleestak including live shows, studio recordings, lyrics, photos, art,...
Posted by on Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:33:00 GMT

New Shirts!

We have new shirts coming! They will be available at our june 27 show!Check em out! 
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jun 2009 20:12:00 GMT

News and Update

Greetings to everyone!It's been too long since we sent out an email update and since we have some stuff happening we figured it would be a good time as any to let you know what's going on.First and fo...
Posted by on Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:35:00 GMT

Milwaukee Journal 6/11/09

Make sure to check out the little Sleestak interview/article thing in the Cue section of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel this coming thursday June 11.If you cant pick up a copy, you'll be able to read ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 05:08:00 GMT

Return to Liquor Sweets

 We are returning to Liquor Sweets in June with an awesome lineup of bands including free face/body painting by Any Time Any Face. We will be filming and recording this show for an upcoming dvd and we...
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 06:19:00 GMT

Sleestak ipod player

You can now listen to all of our studio songs in a cool ipod type player at our  website at http://sleestakmusic.com
Posted by on Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:55:00 GMT

New Studio Tracks

We finally finished the last 2 studio songs that we've been so lazy in completing, "The Marshall Plan" and "Enik's Lament". We are not planning to release any of this.....on CD. However, we may soon o...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:24:00 GMT

New song is up

Go to our myspace page and check out the title track from our upcoming EP - "Skylon Express". It's sounding absolutely killer and we know some of you have been waiting a long time to hear us like this...
Posted by on Fri, 16 Nov 2007 05:44:00 GMT

"Skylon Express" recording done

yes its true, the "Skylon Express" EP recording is done. Mixing begins on Nov. 12. its gonna be some real cool space jam-type stuff. we'll have it for sale soon thereafter from our online store at htt...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 06:05:00 GMT

updates 10/13/07

Soooooo, Dan and I went into the studio to start finishing up our second studio EP "Skylon Express". its sounding great and good to finally have some of our jam stuff laid down in a pro environment. B...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 12:09:00 GMT