After the doom metal band Sleep broke up, singer Al Cisneros stopped recording music and became a chess teacher. "I played a lot when I was a kid, then played in tournaments," Cisneros says. A friend ...

POWER DUO! There are few words more satisfying to the human soul and yet it’s a notoriously difficult thing to get right – unless of course your name is Al Cisneros and you’re one half of OM. Formed ...

OM first formed when Al Cisneros and Chris Hakius got together a handful of years after their old band Sleep parted ways in the late ’90s. The idea was to create a project that used rhythms to convey ...

The Sleep bass man on his new signature Rickenbacker, roots and reggae When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. If you were a metalhead in ...