On August 1 2021, Sleep Token posted this short teaser video to the collective’s social media. This was the first in a build-up for the release of The Love You Want on August 6 2021. The full album This Place Will Become Your Tomb would be fully released on September 24 2021. [FB/X]
On this day in 2023, the collective made an appearance at the Wacken Open Air Festival in Germany. They were the headlining appearance on the W.E.T. stage at the incredibly late hour of 23:45PM local time on the festival’s fourth and final day.
The setlist is reported as follows:
This night is memorably known for the when the vessel teased the intro to Evanescence’s “Bring Me To Life” before playing Rain.
Evidence was located upon IG and on Twitter. Original videographer unknown at this time. (Please send an email to sleeptokenarchive@gmail.com or message directly here for proper credit).
Photographic imagery by Adamrosssi [FB]
Additional imagery by paetrisha [IG]
On this day in 2023, Sleep Token performed at the Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Rosenau, Romania as part of their United Kingdom & Europe Summer Rituals tour.
The setlist is reported to have been as follows:
Photographic Imagery by Adamrosssi [FB/IG/X]
Imagery by Miluță Flueraș [FB]
Imagery by Paul Voicu [FB]
While a full live was not recorded, here is a playlist of the Rockstadt videos I could find. Please enjoy.
On this day in August of 2023, Sleep Token performed in Budapest, Hungary at Budapest Park in support of brethren Architects for this leg of their United Kingdom and Europe Summer Rituals tour.
The setlist was reported to be as follows:
Chokehold
The Offering
Like That
Granite
Vore
Mine
Hypnosis
The Love You Want
Alkaline
The Summoning
Rain
Higher
Photographic imagery by Adamrosssi [FB]
Imagery by artlasso [Link]
Photographic imagery from Koncertmagazin.hu [FB]
Niki Bóta blessed us with a playlist of the collective and the brethren they were supporting this day.
Sleep Token posted about Kerrang!! Magazine’s article on the collective that was released August 1 2018 to their social media accounts. This rare interview features who we know as Vessel now as “Him”, something which has become a thing of the collective’s history and long out of use. [X]
Interview text below.
Words by Jake Richardson
“WE EXPLORE THE DEEPER RECESSES OF THE MIND…”
-HIM
GET TO KNOW
Your quick guide to SLEEP TOKEN…
THEY ARE: Anonymous, philosophical ambient metallers.
HEAR: The alluring power of brand- new single Jaws.
SEE: The simple darkness of the haunting clip for Thread The Needle.
MORE INFO: Facebook.com/ sleeptoken
Photo Caption: Sleep Token: not keen on identity, huge on birthday cake
AMPED UP
SLEEP TOKEN
Anonymous Brit metal cult big on peering down the rabbit hole…
Sleep Token are a band shrouded in mystery. The London metallers’ mix of high-tech riffs and dreamy soundscapes have earned them a good name for themselves since forming last year, but if you want to give them credit for it, you must do so to the masked, anonymous face of their enigmatic frontman, known only as Him. Him declines to reveal specifics about the ancient deity the band worship, Sleep, but he’s more forthcoming about his own artistic motivation.
“There exists a considerable body of art that explores the deeper recesses of the human mind,” he explains. “Sleep Token serve as a means to explore this on an individual basis. The music is a representation of one individual’s deepest and most fundamental emotions and desires. This is what people connect to. They see themselves in this individual, and the music becomes about them.”
Easy-going fare this isn’t, but there’s no denying it’s pretty captivating. Sleep Token have played fewer than 10 times (they refer to their gigs as “rituals”), but they’re already Download alumni. The industrial-ish thrust of new single Jaws, meanwhile, continues their philosophical, lyrical path.
“Our jaws are the tools we have to rend apart,” Him explains. “They show our concealed aggression, and take something once hidden and burst it apart. You don’t know someone until you have seen
them destroy something. Jaws is an exploration of the frustration which accompanies the sense that someone close to you is hiding their true self.”
But while Jaws looks to expose the darkness that lies inside us, when it comes to the band’s own identities Sleep Token are steadfast in their belief that art comes before aesthetic.
“Art has become entangled with identity,” Him says of the band’s anonymity. “The aim is to provide something people can engage with without being obstructed by the identity of its creator. The true identities behind Sleep Token are irrelevant. Our identity is represented through the art and music itself.”
On This Day: August 1 2019
On this day, Sleep Token updated their cover photo as well as their profile photo once again in 2019. This time it was to the sigil/rune for the song Dark Signs, track number four on the forthcoming album, Sundowning. This album would be released in full on November 22 2019.
The new PFP [FB]
The new cover photo. [FB]
Dark Signs FB teaser video. [FB]
Official Dark Signs visualiser, released on YouTube August 1 2019.
The Sleep Token Archive 