In a slight deviation, probably due to uncontrollable factors, the collective updated their cover photo for the release of “Take Aim” on this day in 2019. The profile photo was updated August 29 2019. Previously updates, the profile photo and the cover photo were updated near simultaneously.
Song Release: Take Aim, August 29 2019
On this day in August 2019, Sleep Token released the visualiser for “Take Aim” on YouTube. The full album release of Sundowning would be on November 22 2019.
Full video on YouTube.
On this day, Sleep Token updated their profile photo to the rune/symbol that represented the song “Take Aim” from their forthcoming album, Sundowning.
On this day: August 27 2021
Sleep Token had been slated to perform for the ALT LDN festival in 2021 but posted on this day that they were no longer going to be attending. This was likely due to the myriad of issues that surrounded the festival that year.
Caption on the collective’s social media with this coral mask design:
Due to unforeseen circumstances beyond their control, Sleep Token shall no longer be performing at the ALT LDN Festival.
Sleep Token posted to Twitter that the cover of “Hey Ya!” had been added to the digital dimension due to demand from followers.
“Hey Ya!” as performed by Sleep Token was originally released February 28 2017.
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]
Sleep Token posted about Kerrang!! Magazine’s article on the collective that was released August 1 2018 to their social media accounts. This rare interview features who we know as Vessel now as “Him”, something which has become a thing of the collective’s history and long out of use. [X]
Interview text below.
Words by Jake Richardson
“WE EXPLORE THE DEEPER RECESSES OF THE MIND…”
-HIM
GET TO KNOW
Your quick guide to SLEEP TOKEN…
THEY ARE: Anonymous, philosophical ambient metallers.
HEAR: The alluring power of brand- new single Jaws.
SEE: The simple darkness of the haunting clip for Thread The Needle.
MORE INFO: Facebook.com/ sleeptoken
Photo Caption: Sleep Token: not keen on identity, huge on birthday cake
AMPED UP
SLEEP TOKEN
Anonymous Brit metal cult big on peering down the rabbit hole…
Sleep Token are a band shrouded in mystery. The London metallers’ mix of high-tech riffs and dreamy soundscapes have earned them a good name for themselves since forming last year, but if you want to give them credit for it, you must do so to the masked, anonymous face of their enigmatic frontman, known only as Him. Him declines to reveal specifics about the ancient deity the band worship, Sleep, but he’s more forthcoming about his own artistic motivation.
“There exists a considerable body of art that explores the deeper recesses of the human mind,” he explains. “Sleep Token serve as a means to explore this on an individual basis. The music is a representation of one individual’s deepest and most fundamental emotions and desires. This is what people connect to. They see themselves in this individual, and the music becomes about them.”
Easy-going fare this isn’t, but there’s no denying it’s pretty captivating. Sleep Token have played fewer than 10 times (they refer to their gigs as “rituals”), but they’re already Download alumni. The industrial-ish thrust of new single Jaws, meanwhile, continues their philosophical, lyrical path.
“Our jaws are the tools we have to rend apart,” Him explains. “They show our concealed aggression, and take something once hidden and burst it apart. You don’t know someone until you have seen
them destroy something. Jaws is an exploration of the frustration which accompanies the sense that someone close to you is hiding their true self.”
But while Jaws looks to expose the darkness that lies inside us, when it comes to the band’s own identities Sleep Token are steadfast in their belief that art comes before aesthetic.
“Art has become entangled with identity,” Him says of the band’s anonymity. “The aim is to provide something people can engage with without being obstructed by the identity of its creator. The true identities behind Sleep Token are irrelevant. Our identity is represented through the art and music itself.”
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