Career
Soon after recording their first full length record, Volume One, Justin Marler vanished, while Sleep went on to become metal icons. Marler turned up at Saint Herman of Alaska Monastery in northern California and later was transferred to a monastery on a nearly deserted island in Alaska. During his seven-year stint as a monk he founded the widely distributed Zine titled Death To The World.
The zine had a considerable impact on youth counterculture during the mid to late 1990s, which caught the attention of mainstream press, and quickly led to the release of his first book, Youth of the Apocalypse, (co-authored with a fellow monastic).
Marler moved to Austin, Texas in 2005, and is a musician and publishing author Marler is active in the Austin music scene with current band Shiny Empire.
