Al Cisneros recorded "Have Spacesuit Will Travel," Sleep's first new song in eight years, with Bubba Dupree on guitar and Dale Crover on drums; the track is being released under the Sleep name and sits at the center of newly announced Sleep Band Tour Dates.
Have Spacesuit Will Travel
Have Spacesuit Will Travel was released via Third Man Records, and the band paired the single with a visual and merchandising push that includes a Sleep Comic Book collaboration: Al Cisneros teamed up with Dave Kloc and Arik Roper for Sleep Comic Book, which introduces The Marijuanaut from Planet Iommia and stages an encounter with The Weedian in issue #1. The band's statement said "the music and art are alive after the decades of obstacles that Sleep has overcome."
September 2026: San Diego and More
Two North American legs run all of September and early to mid-November 2026, with the September schedule listing San Diego, Austin, Boise, Seattle and Portland among stops. The November leg lists Detroit, Toronto, Boston and Philadelphia. Sleep previously ran from 1990 to 1998, returned from 2009 to 2019 and played a handful of shows in 2021/2022; this rollout repackages recorded output and touring under the Sleep name after those intermittent windows of activity.
November 2026: Detroit to Philadelphia
The first Sleep track not to feature founding member and guitarist Matt Pike is fronted by Al Cisneros alongside Bubba Dupree and Dale Crover, while drummer Jason Roeder said in spring 2025 that he had been "unceremoniously" fired from the band. The band press release "wishes Matt the best on his earth-bound maneuvers" and framed the recording as "composing in the spirit of that which had been established so long ago," language that signals the group is marketing the song and the tour as Sleep activity despite the lineup change.
An artist pre-sale begins on Tuesday, June 23rd, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster, with general on-sale scheduled for Thursday, June 25th, at 10 a.m. local time; those windows set the immediate commercial test for demand and will determine whether the reconfigured lineup converts interest into advance ticket revenue.
Al Cisneros recording and touring under the Sleep name without Matt Pike turns the fall legs into a clear commercial test of the brand and lineup: the single, the Sleep Comic Book tie-ins and the Sleep Band Tour Dates together convert artistic moves into measurable ticket- and merchandise-driven revenue that the market will judge this autumn.
