Month: November 2024

II Drum Cam – Like That in Pomona, CA 2023

Our favorite drummer of Sleep, II, was prolific with drum cams post the North American Rituals tour. Here on November 25 2023, he posted another one, this time for Like That. Once more from Pomona. [IG]

Social Media Update: November 21 2019

On this day in 2019, Sleep Token updated their profile and cover photo once more to the rune/sigil for the song Blood Sport. This would be the devastating twelfth and final track on the forthcoming album, Sundowning.

The new PFP [FB]

The updated cover photo [FB]

Music Release: Blood Sport, November 21 2019

Today in Sleep Token historical events, Sleep Token officially released Blood Sport after having played it at rituals since June of 2018. This would be the twelfth and final track on the forthcoming first album, Sundowning. The song was teased on the collective’s social media accounts and posted in full on YouTube. [FB | X]

Blood Sport
http://www.sleep-token.com
Worship.

Official Blood Sport visualiser, released November 21 2019.

Album Release: Sundowning

On November 21 2019, Sleep Token released their first full studio album, Sundowning.

The full tracklist

  1. The Night Does Not Belong to God (TNDNBTG)
  2. The Offering
  3. Levitate
  4. Dark Signs
  5. Higher
  6. Take Aim
  7. Give
  8. Gods
  9. Sugar
  10. Say That You Will
  11. Drag Me Under
  12. Blood Sport
Continue reading “Album Release: Sundowning” →

Social Media Update: November 20 2019

In 2019, Sleep Token posted to their Facebook page the below description along with the photograph shown here. [FB]

‘Sundowning, or sundown syndrome, is a neurological phenomenon associated with increased confusion and restlessness in patients with delirium or some form of dementia. The term ‘sundowning’ was coined due to the timing of the patient’s confusion. For patients with sundowning syndrome, a multitude of behavioural problems begin to occur in the evening or while the sun is setting…’

Link to post on Tumblr

II Drum Cam – The Love You Want in Pomona, CA

Fox Theater Pomona, Pomona, CA, USA
October 9-10, 2023

The Love You Want live from Pomona, California 2023.

Originally shared November 13 2023 on II’s [IG]

Music Release: Fields of Elation, November 10 2016

While not an official single, Fields of Elation from the forthcoming 2016 EP One, was posted to YouTube on this day in 2016. It is one of those rare songs where we are provided with official lyrics.

The daylight recedes
In unison, this room
Buries the hours
Like death, in motion
Nobody else can pull me out
The fields of elation quiet and loamy
Your name is a sin
I breathe, like oxygen
Caught in the careless
Arms, of lust again
Nobody else can pull me out
The fields of elation quiet and loamy
Nobody else can pull me out
The fields of elation quiet and loamy
I’m losing my faith in our lives apart

In the description of the video, there was additional early lore provided.

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Thanks to MindHackTV & Nyxea Illustrations

Sleep Token are a masked, anonymous collective of musicians; united by their worship of an ancient deity crudely dubbed “Sleep”, since no modern tongue can properly express it’s name.

This being once held great power, bestowing ancient civilisations with the gift of dreams, and the curse of nightmares.

Even today, though faded from prominence, ‘Sleep’ yet lurks in the subconscious minds of man, woman, and child alike. Fragments of beauty, horror, anguish, pain, happiness, joy, anger, disgust, and fear coalesce to create expansive, emotionally textured music that simultaneously embodies the darkest, and the brightest abstract thoughts. He has seen them. He has felt them. He is everywhere.

Sleep Token, led by the perpetually tormented, supremely talented Vessel, creates music that brings to the fore our most submerged thoughts and feelings, coaxing them from the desolate, terrifying caves of our subconscious mind.