The day following the release of This Place Will Become Your Tomb’s second single, The Love You Want, Sleep Token posted this photo and a link to a page to pre-save the album release. [FB/X]
On This Day: August 7 2021
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On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On this day in 2021, Sleep Token released their second single from their second album, This Place Will Become Your Tomb. The song is The Love You Want and featured a music video posted to the collective’s YouTube channel. [FB/X]
The caption on Facebook was:
‘The Love You Want’ is now yours.
September 24th – ‘This Place Will Become Your Tomb’.
The caption on Twitter X was:
Still waking up, beneath it all.
YouTube:
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On August 5 2021, Sleep Token posted this short teaser video to the collective’s social media. This was the fifth 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]
The caption with this teaser was:
Friday, 10am British Summer Time.
The Love You Want.
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On August 4 2021, Sleep Token posted this short teaser video to the collective’s social media. This was the fourth 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]
The caption with this teaser was:
The time has come to make the necessary preparations.
Friday brings the next offering.
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On August 3 2021, Sleep Token posted this short teaser video to the collective’s social media. This was the third 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]
The caption with this teaser was
Still waking up beneath it all.
VI.VIII.MMXXI
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
On August 2 2021, Sleep Token posted this short teaser video to the collective’s social media. This was the second 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]
The caption with this teaser was
I’m still full of the love you want.
On This Day: August 6 2021
On This Day: August 6 2021
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: August 5 2023
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:
- Chokehold
- The Offering
- Like That
- Granite
- Vore
- Mine
- Hypnosis
- The Love You Want
- Alkaline
- The Summoning
- Rain
- Higher
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: August 3 2023
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:
- Chokehold
- The Offering
- Like That
- Granite
- Vore
- Mine
- Hypnosis
- The Love You Want
- Alkaline
- The Summoning
- Rain
- Higher
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.
The Sleep Token Archive 