The Sabians

Hailing through the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay area, The Sabians feature two former people of defunct doom metallic legends Rest, whose three seminal early 90’s albums had been being among the most influential from the genre. After getting involved in the periods for Sleep’s initial record, 1991’s Vol. 1, guitarist Justin Marler quit the music group and enlisted using a Russian Orthodox monastery, where he spent another seven years schooling to become monk. Sleep continued being a trio, obtaining without any mainstream identification but securing a long lasting popularity in underground circles because of their often outstanding, however steadfastly inaccessible body of function before finally milling to some halt amid legal controversy in the past due 90’s. Once he’d finished his research, Marler reunited with Rest drummer Matt Hakius (retired from music at that time and driving a huge rig for a full time income) in 1999 to create The Sabians. By using fellow Rest alum Matt Pike (at that time fronting his have new project On top of Fireplace), the duo guaranteed a rehearsal space and started auditioning musicians. Business lead guitarist Patrick Huerta shortly came up to speed, but a little military of bassists slipped through their rates before the entrance of Rachel Fischer in past due 2001. This line-up performed over the Sabian’s 2002 Music cartel debut Beauty for Ashes, in addition to its 2003 follow-up Shiver.