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

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

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

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

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

Music Release: Nazareth, June 19 2017

On This Day: June 19 2017

Seven years ago this day, Sleep Token released Nazareth as the second single of their EP “Two”. The EP was released in full July 21 2017.

At this time, the only promotional evidence curated is this post on the site formerly known as Twitter, directing to a now deleted Basick Records post.

Nazareth cover image from the single release on Spotify when using this link.

The title on this image appears to be “Nazareth” using the written Arabic language but with each letter reversed. While researching this single, the image above also appears reversed on Discogs and on Spotify. The proper way to write out Nazareth in Arabic is “الناصرة”.

Per this source, this song was produced by George Lever. The writers credited are Vessel I and Vessel II. Vessel is shown as the performer for vocals, guitar, bass, and piano. Drums show II is listed.

Any additional information, or resources, from that time frame regarding this single release is welcome. As is any correction of the aforementioned.

On This Day: June 18 2021

Alkaline, the first single of the forthcoming second album, This Place Will Become Your Tomb (TPWBYT), was released on this day in 2021. The full album would be released September 24 2021.

Single cover

Teaser on Twitter and Facebook, and likely on IG as well.

On This Day: June 17 2019

Returning to 2019, the collective changed their profile photo as well as their cover/banner photo. This coincided with a teaser video posted to their Facebook page featuring the intro to The Night Does Not Belong To God and the runes for all the songs on their first album, Sundowning. Thus begins the lead up to the full album release in November 2019.

Profile photo.

Banner/Cover Photo.

Teaser video.

On This Day: June 14 2019

So soon after updating the collective’s Facebook, Twitter, and likely Instagram profile photos, they chose to update again on this day in 2019. This time to the iconic, well known and well beloved complete and final sigil/symbol.

While theories and speculation abound, it is not truly known what this sigil stands for, and what runes make up the whole. This curator does have a favorite of those read so far in the archiving journey, and it is the theory linked here.

As always with the intentions of the vessel, it is perhaps another part of knowing Sleep Token and embracing the meanings of the imagery and songs as our own.

Once again should you, fellow follower, have further information, please reach out and educate. As always, it is appreciated.

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