On This Day: June 27 2023

On This Day: June 27 2023

Sleep Token performed at Les Arènes de Nîmes in support of brethren Slipknot in Nimes, France on this day in 2023.

The setlist was reported as follows:

The Offering
Like That
Granite
Vore
Hypnosis
Alkaline
The Summoning
Rain
Higher

This curator is grateful to Tania Jonsson for sharing the collective’s performance in full via Youtube.

Photographic evidence, including an iconic profile of the first vessel, provided by Adamrosssi via the collective’s Facebook page.

Further Reflections on the Past

Further Reflections on the Past:

June 18 2021

The pandemic put a hold on many things, and the Collective was not exempted from this. Thus it had been over a year since Sleep Token performed for followers. The last ritual held had been in the month of January, at the beginning of the year that wasn’t: 2020.

The Download Pilot, held June 18 to 20 2021, was a 10k capacity pilot festival to help open up live music. It was done in collaboration with the powers that be, with testing and so on, to ensure the safety of the attendees.

This event included our dear collective returning to stage with Sundowning under their belts, and a new album cycle in the works. Some day this curator will cover the hopeful, but brief Isolation Rituals that never were.

The setlist was as follows, including the first on stage performance of Alkaline:

Thread the Needle
The Night Does Not Belong to God
The Offering
Jaws
Dark Signs
Alkaline
Sugar
Nazareth
Higher

Photographic evidence provided by Coal Poet Media

Cinematic evidence by Dark Fable Media

Additional imagery:

By Matt Eachus

From Kerrang!

By TomRussellPhoto

On This Day: June 25 2022

On This Day: June 25 2022

Sleep Token, in support of Northlane’s Obsidian tour, performed at The Tivoli in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia this day in 2022. It was their first appearance in this city as well as the last city on this tour.

The setlist was reported to be as follows:

Alkaline
Hypnosis
Like That
The Love You Want
Higher
The Offering

Photos by Marc Media and were posted to the Collective’s Facebook page with the following caption (Twitter link here):

Sacred moments in time, captured in Brisbane by Marc Media.

So ends this maiden Australian voyage, though this shall not be the last time we congregate.

Until then, Worship.

On This Day: June 24 2023

On This Day: June 24 2023

The collective played at the 2023 edition of the Full Force Festival, in Gräfenhainichen, Germany on this day. Once more a part of their United Kingdom & Europe Summer Rituals tour in 2023.

The setlist appears to have been as follows:

Chokehold
The Offering
Like That
Granite
Vore
Hypnosis
Alkaline
The Summoning
Rain
Higher

Promotional image from Full Force Festival’s Facebook.

Photographic imagery by Adamrosssi posted to Sleep Token’s Facebook page.

“Granite” video evidence shared by Core Community on Youtube.

Full lineup for their 2023 UK and Europe Summer Rituals

On This Day: June 23 2023

On This Day: June 23 2023

Sleep Token performed a 45 minute set at the Jera On Air festival in 2023 at Ysselsteyn, Netherlands as part of their United Kingdom & Europe Summer Rituals 2023.

Their setlist was reported to be as follows:

The Offering
Like That
Granite
Vore
Hypnosis
Alkaline
The Summoning
Rain
Higher

“Vore” courtesy of LawrenceMJR7. Additional videos that this curator located on YouTube have been saved to this playlist: 2023 Jera On Air

Photos from the collective’s Facebook post here, by Adamrosssi.

Photo of II’s drum kit by follower vallie24 on Reddit.

Additional photos from this event can be located here: Emily Parry Concert Fotografie

On This Day: June 23 2022

On This Day: June 23 2022

Sleep Token joined Northlane’s Obsidian tour in Australia for June 16, 17, 18, 23, and 25 in 2022 alongside plini and ALT. It was the collective’s first appearance down under.

On today’s date in 2022, they were in Sydney at the Enmore Theatre.

The setlist was reported to be as follows:

Alkaline
Hypnosis
Like That
The Love You Want
Higher
The Offering

Photos courtesy Josh Groom at Moshcam.com

We are fortunate in this day and age that a kind person recorded their set. Much gratitude to whipsy on YT for their foresight.

On This Day: June 20, 2020

On This Day: June 20, 2020

Sleep Token released the deluxe edition of their first album, Sundowning, today in 2020. Featuring 4 additional tracks listed as “from the Room Below”, this deluxe edition had 16 total songs, including a piano version of “Blood Sport”, two covers – Billie Eilish’s song “When the Party’s Over” and Whitney Houston’s “I Wanna Dance With Somebody”, as well as the original acoustic piece “Shelter”.

Blood Sport (from the room below) was released as a music video on YouTube on this day.

The Deluxe edition had no physical release and was digital only.

The music video for Blood Sport released today was called an offering from The Room Below.

On This Day: June 20 2019

On This Day: June 20 2019

Today in 2019, Sleep Token released the full audio for the first song on their first LP, Sundowning.

The collective slowly released all songs from their first album like singles, although they were not considered as such. This continued until the full album release on November 22 2019.

Teaser video posted to social media.

Link to Youtube audio posted with teaser.

Produced by George Lever. Written and composed by Vessel and II.

It is noted that this song is revisited in Sleep Token’s third album release, towards the end of the twelfth track. A callback, if you will, bringing the three album cycle full circle and to an end.

On This Day: June 19 2020

On This Day: June 19 2020

From June 4 2020 to June 18 2020, the collective posted a series of photos with quotes from songs included on their first album Sundowning. On this day in 2020, they posted a teaser video with a piano track that was the room below version of Blood Sport.

The quotes were as follows:

  • XVI | The light of the sunrise
  • XV | This is a giving, an offering
  • XIV | Forgetting the agony again
  • XIII | Omens in your skies
  • XII | You need a melody
  • XI | Won’t you wait for me
  • X | I just want to give
  • IX | Like fire from the heavens
  • VIII | Show me what you do
  • VII | I am yours tonight
  • VI | As we lie down together
  • V | I can’t win
  • IV | So let’s play
  • III | Even if you won’t believe me
  • II | I’ll only hurt you if you let me
  • I | And the sun begins to fade