Sleepmask

Sleepmask was first born in 2005 from the heart and soul of it’s founding father Ming Vauze in Los Angeles, California, as a more aethereal musical journey away from his then current band Faculty X. Forged from his love of 80’s post-punk acts like The Sisters of Mercy, Tones on Tail, Fad Gadget and Japan, as well as the early 4AD records catalog, he soon fleshed out his unique songs and shared his poetic heart with a handful of individuals until finding a musical home in ex-Suicide Club drummer Pablo Amador, Ian Sterling Smith, guitarist and also an ex member of L.A. based band Suicide Club, and F of the Distortions.

Soon after joining creative arms, the band gained immediate acclaim within the world of dark romantic and aethereal music in Los Angeles, NYC and in Europe. Sleepmask continues to follow that path in it’s music, with phantasmic pieces entitled "Voudou", "Harms Way" and "Choose that Girl". Ming Vauze has also collaborated wih Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, co-writing “Need Some Air” from their 2007 release Baby ‘81.

Sleepmask are still unsigned, thus earning the title of Best Unsigned Guitar Band of 2008 by Gothic Magazine, a magazine of gothic music and culture distributed in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. However, you can buy tracks directly from their Myspace page. So, if you're looking for darker music that sublimates the deathrock, shoegaze, post-punk and gothic rock of yore while bringing a freshness and updated twist, Sleepmask is for you.

http://www.myspace.com/sleepmask
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