Sleepytime Gorilla Museum are putting their early catalog in a box that sounds almost as maximalist as the band itself. The avant-prog metal lifers have announced Triptych, a limited wooden box set collecting their first three albums: 2001's Grand Opening and Closing, 2004's Of Natural History, and 2007's In Glorious Times.
The set is due October 30 via Avant Night and Joyful Noise Recordings, according to both Treble and Joyful Noise's product page. The three albums will be pressed as gatefold double-LPs on colored vinyl: Grand Opening and Closing on gold swirl, Of Natural History on green swirl, and In Glorious Times on oxblood swirl. The whole thing comes housed in a hinged tri-fold wooden box with die-cut and etched artwork, plus a hand-pulled screen-printed poster signed by the band and two hand-bound booklets created by Odd Petals.
In other words: exactly the kind of overbuilt relic Sleepytime Gorilla Museum deserve. This is a band whose best work always felt like an art object that learned to bite back — part chamber-prog ritual, part noise-rock theater, part end-times vaudeville — so a hand-numbered wooden triptych is less deluxe-package excess than pretty direct brand alignment.
Avant Night's announcement frames the release around the 25th anniversary of Grand Opening and Closing and says the three albums were previously available on vinyl only as an import through Blood Music. The edition is hand-numbered and limited to 777 copies. Treble also published a statement from the band crediting several collaborators behind the object, including Avant Night founder Nick Ohler, longtime SGM designer Jenya Chernoff, box craftsman Zachary Petersen, Odd Petals' Alden Knight, and writer Mattsen McFarland.
The announcement also lands while the band are active again after 2024's Of the Last Human Being. Treble lists U.S. dates beginning May 27 at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall and running through August 1 at Austin's Mohawk; New Noise Magazine's earlier tour report lists the same late-May-to-August routing and notes the broader 25-year celebration around the band.
Triptych is up through Joyful Noise now. If you have ever wanted three foundational Sleepytime Gorilla Museum records, a signed poster, arcane liner notes, and a wooden artifact that looks like it should be confiscated by a medieval church, this is probably your lane.