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"Behind the Wall of Sleep" was released as the second single from the band's debut album, Especially for You. The track reached number 23 on the US Mainstream Rock Charts, as well as number eight on the UK Indie Charts.
Two of its songs became hits on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart: "Blood and Roses" reached No. 14, while "Behind the Wall of Sleep" peaked at No. 23. [6] The album reached No. 51 on the US Billboard 200 [7] as well as No. 5 on the UK Indie Chart. [8] It was certified platinum in the US for sales over 1,000,000 copies. [9]
Behind the Wall of Sleep may refer to: Behind the Wall of Sleep, a 1994 EP by Macabre "Behind the Wall of Sleep" (The Smithereens song), 1986 "Behind the Wall of Sleep", a song from Black Sabbath's 1970 album Black Sabbath
The title and lyrics of their song, “In a Lonely Place," appear to be based on the 1950 Humphrey Bogart film of the same title because of Bogart's lines: "I was born the day I met you, lived a while when you loved me, died a little when we broke apart."
Main illustration for the story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Internal illustration from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (March 1938, vol. 31, no. 3, page 331).. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
The lyrics of two other songs on the album were written about stories with mythological themes. "Behind the Wall of Sleep" is a reference to the H. P. Lovecraft short story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep," [9] while "The Wizard" was inspired by the character of Gandalf from The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. [23]
"Behind the Wall of Sleep" The song's title and lyrics are inspired by a short story with a similar name. Blind Idiot God: Various: Various Name inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's description of Azathoth: Blue Öyster Cult: Curse of the Hidden Mirror (2001) "The Old Gods Return"
The band contributed "Behind the Wall of Sleep" to the Black Sabbath tribute album Nativity in Black 2 (2000). The band recorded the song's guitar and bass tracks using a "little cigarette box amplifier"; as the band did not have a wah-wah pedal at the time, they got their sound engineer, Bruce Reiter, to "hold the little amp up to his mouth ...