Sleep Announces Tour, Comic Book, and New Song Featuring Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover

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Sleep Return With Tour, Comic Book, and First New Song in Eight Years

The pioneering doom-metal band now includes Void’s Bubba Dupree on guitar and Melvins’ Dale Crover on drums By Nina Corcoran June 18, 2026 Save this story Save this story

Sleep , the legendary stoner and doom-metal band, have returned with their first new music in eight years and plans for a North American tour this fall. “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” is out now via Third Man. But wait: it’s also getting the flexi disc treatment as part of a bundle for Sleep Comic Book , the first issue of a new comic book written by frontman Al Cisneros and illustrated by Dave Kloc and Arik Roper.

Arguably even bigger news than that, though, is that the band’s lineup has changed. Cisneros remains as Sleep’s singer, bassist, and lead songwriter, but their wild (and often shirtless) guitarist and co-founder Matt Pike is no longer in the group, making their 2018 album The Sciences his final studio contribution. Taking his place is Bubba Dupree, an equally formidable musician best known as the guitarist in Maryland hardcore punk icons Void . Dale Crover, Melvins ’ longtime drummer, is also stepping up behind the drum kit to fill the big shoes of Jason Roeder, who’s back in Neurosis following their own unexpected reunion .

Pike was, quite literally, a foundational part of Sleep’s sound, with his riffs being about as essential as it gets for the stoner metal genre (see: Dopesmoker ). The band hasn’t made a formal statement about this new lineup, but a press release does offer a little more information: “The music and art are alive and after the decades of obstacles that Sleep has overcome, it is time to move forward and make songs and albums. Al wishes Matt the best on his earth bound maneuvers.”

As for Sleep Comic Book , the straightforward title Issue #1 begins the saga of the Marijuanaut, which a press release describes as “an adventure which takes the reader to Planet Iommia, encounters with The Weedian, and introduces the traveller to Iommia’s deeper reverential practices, all this and more that resonates within the universe that Cisneros’s lyrics created from the riff-filled lands of Sleep’s discography.” Sleep Comic Book is available as a standard edition, in which fans can buy the comic book as is, or a limited-edition bundle featuring the comic book, a full cover poster, a signed bookplate, designed rolling papers, and that “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” flexi disc.

Sleep kick off their fall tour on September 8 in San Diego and will proceed to make their way to most major cities in the United States and Canada. The route ends on November 17 in Washington, D.C., but not without a pit stop at Austin music festival Levitation first. See their full list of upcoming tour dates below.

Read about Sleep”s “Marijuanaut’s Theme” in The 200 Best Songs of the 2010s .

Sleep: 09-08 San Diego, CA - The Observatory North Park 09-09 Phoenix, AZ - The Van Buren 09-10 Albuquerque, NM - Revel 09-12 Dallas, TX - Granada Theater 09-13 Austin, TX - Levitation 09-14 Oklahoma City, OK - Tower Theatre 09-16 Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre 09-17 Salt Lake City, UT - The Grand At The Complex 09-18 Boise, ID - Treefort Music Hall 09-20 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore Ballroom 09-21 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre 09-22 Seattle, WA - Neptune Theatre 09-23 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater 09-25 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 09-26 San Francisco, CA - The Fillmore 09-27 Santa Cruz, CA - The Catalyst 09-28 Los Angeles, CA - The Wiltern 09-29 Santa Ana, CA - The Observatory 11-04 Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue 11-05 Milwaukee, WI - Pabst Theater 11-06 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre 11-07 Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall 11-09 Toronto, Ontario - Phoenix Concert Theatre 11-10 Montreal, Quebec - Club Soda 11-11 South Burlington, VT - Higher Ground Ballroom 11-12 Boston, MA - Roadrunner 11-13 Hudson, NY - Basilica Hudson 11-15 Philadelphia, PA - Theatre of Living Arts 11-16 Brooklyn, NY - Brooklyn Paramount 11-17 Washington, DC - Lincoln Theatre

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_Originally reported by [Pitchfork](https://pitchfork.com/news/sleep-return-with-tour-comic-book-and-first-new-song-in-eight-years/)._