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
- The Night Does Not Belong to God (TNDNBTG)
- The Offering
- Levitate
- Dark Signs
- Higher
- Take Aim
- Give
- Gods
- Sugar
- Say That You Will
- Drag Me Under
- Blood Sport
II Drum Cam – Alkaline in Pomona, CA
On this day of November, II posted a drum cam clip of Alkaline from Pomona, California’s ritual. [IG]
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…’
II Drum Cam – Hypnosis in Pomona, CA
On November 16 2023, II posted a drum cam clip of Hypnosis from Pomona, California’s ritual. [IG]
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 IllustrationsSleep 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.
Social Media Update: November 9 2019
In 2019 on this date, Sleep Token posted a short video with a caption, as seen below. This video originated from the collective’s appearance at ArcTangent on August 16 2019.
Caption was as follows:
Darkness into Light
Worship.
While the person who captured this is unnamed, this curator suspects it was done by FinnP Photography, whose photographic imagery was shared to the official accounts soon after. But this is only a guess. If any kind souls know for certain, please message the archive or email sleeptokenarchive@gmail.com.
Yours in Worship
The Curator
The Sleep Token Archive 