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Tag: sleep token
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
Music Release: Drag Me Under, November 07 2019
On this day in 2019, Sleep Token posted the teaser video for Drag Me Under, the eleventh song from their album Sundowning. The song was posted in full this same day to Youtube. [FB | X]
Drag Me Under
www.sleep-token.com
Worship.
Official Drag Me Under visualiser, released November 7 2019.
Social Media Update: November 5 2021
Sleep Token shared this promotional video for their upcoming This Place Will Become Your Tomb Tour in November of 2021 along with the caption:
Followers of the United Kingdom,
The November Rituals are almost upon us.
12.11.21- Foundry, Torquay
13.11.21 – Institute, Birmingham
14.11.21 – SWG3, Glasgow
15.11.21 – Leadmill, Sheffield
17.11.21 – Arts Club Theatre, Liverpool
18.11.21 – Academy 2, Manchester
19.11.21 – Y Plas, Cardiff
20.11.21 – Shepherds Bush Empire, London
Remaining entrance tickets available at https://www.sleep-token.com/live/
Worship.
Video is uncredited in this FB post but is by Dark Fable Media, made from footage of the collective’s Download Pilot festival appearance on June 18 2021.
Music Release: Say That You Will, October 24 2019
On this day in 2019, Sleep Token posted the teaser video for Say That You Will, the tenth song from their album Sundowning. The song was posted in full this same day to Youtube. [FB]
Say That You Will
www.sleep-token.com
Worship.
Official Say That You Will visualiser, released October 24 2019.
The First Official Ritual: October 23 2017
It may come as a surprise to many who follow the collective, but the Black Heart ritual would have been the first ritual if it had not been canceled the end of May. Same thing is true of their first appearance at the UK Tech Fest in July 2017.
The first true ritual came about on October 23 2017 at the O2 Academy Islington in support of Motorpsycho. It was a very small set that included Nazareth, When the Bough Breaks, Fields of Elation, Jericho, and Hey Ya. The setlist may have included others from the EPs released up to that point but there is no footage or record of those songs being performed.
Photographic imagery courtesy Simon Clark [FB]
Additional imagery from Paul Philips [Flickr]
Additional photos from Paul Phillips on Facebook
Should you wish to deep dive for more media from this event, please check out the folder here in the archive drive.
The Sleep Token Archive 