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And yet here you are ruining the fun for everyone
Anyone into Sleep Token? (Check out if you like Deftones)
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I have a vague idea of who Vessel is. I don't know who anyone else is and want to keep it that way please. I know it's a simple Google search, and if I wanted to know, I would have done it long ago. So, respectfully, please don't name them. If/when the band decides to make it public themselves, then whatever.
BrainArt
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This. I found out about Sleep Token in June of 2020, that year they became my most listened to artist, and have consistently been in the top 3 if not No. 1 since.
I've had to tell myself that it is ok for me to call both Sleep Token and Meshuggah my favorite bands (Deftones deserve a nod, of course.)
I am absolutely stoked for TMBTE, and bummed that I missed out on tix to the Denver show.
PiggySmallz
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Not really, I never said who they are and i dont want to ruin it for other people either. It doesn't matter who they are, their music speaks for itself
Keep hearing their stuff on a local radio station....not bad at all.
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3 more days until the album release and the first reviews look really promising 
Also they're touring in Germany with Slipknot, so that's also kinda big
Also they're touring in Germany with Slipknot, so that's also kinda big
PiggySmallz
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I got the vinyl in the mail yesterday but I haven't listened to it yet. Can't wait to tear it open
One of my vinyls is arriving Thursday. Plus if it's like the singles and it drops at midnight local time in the UK, it will be up here at 7 pm. I'm abstaining from listening to any of the singles until I either get my vinyl or the it drops on streaming. In preparation, I listened to Sundowning straight through today, and tomorrow will be This Place Will Become Your Tomb, and finally Thursday, Take Me Back To Eden. I seriously haven't been this hyped for an album in a long, long time.
Bloody_Inferno
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After seeing the band live in an old theatre a few weeks ago, I can't wait for the album as well. I've also never heard a Squier Bass VI sound so crushing until that night.
Sounds like a dude covering Lana Del Rey while another dude djents between smoke breaks.
Maybe on the next album the singer can ditch the vocoder for some auto-tune. I'd like some T-Pain style metal. T-Pain is already a very metal name to begin with.
Maybe on the next album the singer can ditch the vocoder for some auto-tune. I'd like some T-Pain style metal. T-Pain is already a very metal name to begin with.
Not all of my pre-order stuff but I HAVE THE DAMN ALBUM. Decide after work I'm gonna take a vape hit, take an extended drive, and listen to the CD straight through. I have little doubt I'll be listening on vinyl tonight too.
Ok. I took a vape hit and drove around backroads to listen to the quick. Ummm..... This is going to take time to process how to put what I feel into words. Plus I'd rather wait until the album is out proper tomorrow to give my thoughts. But holy shit. Holy. Shit. This album is.... So goddamn awesome....
BrainArt
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I had told myself that this was probably be AOTY for me, I sure do know what I'm talking about. Love this album, love this band.
Ben Pinkus
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I'm half way through my first listen (which is mostly the singles again tbf), and definitely think this is their strongest work to date.
Album is super varied too and stuff seems to have more purpose than the last album which I didn't gel with as an album listen
Album is super varied too and stuff seems to have more purpose than the last album which I didn't gel with as an album listen
Ok. I've had time (and five listens and counting) to process and get the words together. Just a heads up, I'm going to get personal here.
I discovered Sleep Token in early 2020. A little before lockdown started. I saw someone on IG listening to Sundowning and thought the album art looked neat, so I gave it a try. By the end of "The Night Does Not Belong To God", I was hooked. Went back and listened to the EPs. Grabbed it on vinyl before their vinyls became more valuable than gold, a bunch of merch, some a little obscure (I only own scarves from two bands, these guys, and So Hideous).
And then covid happened. It became hard to cope as time went on (as in sure it did for many of us), but if I can point to an album that helped me cope, it was Sundowning. It was new. It was something I haven't heard before. And there were lyrics that really spoke directly to me (Dark Sign: 'I may break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody'. Blood Sport: 'I wanna be forgiven, I want to choke up chunks of my own sins'). 2020 granted too much time to reflect, and this album aided in this
This Place Will Become Your Tomb came. I remember Alkaline dropping, and just being hypnotized the moment the guitar dropped and Vessel sings 'Lets talk about chemistry...'. "The Love You Want" is still top 3 ST songs for me, with that final chorus with the crushing guitars giving me chills every time. For a while I thought Sundowning had stronger songs, but Tomb was a more cohesive album. This only became more true as time went on. And like Sundowning did with 2020, Tomb felt like a good sountrack to 2021: things were starting to improve, but it was still a dark time.
And here we are, with Take Me Back To Eden.
Let's get the surface points out of the way. Short version: I heard someone on YouTube say "This is what it sounds like when a band finds their sound." And did they. Somehow, there's Pop, R&B, Trap, Soul, Classic Rock, Prog, and Brutal Metal, and it just.... Works. Love or hate them, you can't deny Sleep Tokens uniqueness. The 6 singles I think have been spoken about enough (I'm gonna go ahead and say it, DYWTYLM is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite song on here. Yet somehow, "Are You Really Okay?" Is my least favorite, but still a damn good song with amazing lyrics). "Ascensionism" is a straight up movie, going from ballad to trap rap to one hell of a breakdown in the middle. "Rain" is just epic, while not as long as the lengthy epics on here, it still rules. "The Apparition" is haunting R&B that again, they just make it theirs and make it work.
But there's two tracks I need to elaborate on, and those are the final two.
"Take Me Back To Eden", the title track, is their crown jewel. This song just feels like approaching the end of a journey, with some final harships to face. All the emotions are just laid bare in a way that stands out from the rest of their discography. It gave me a sense of trying to come to terms with many things I've been doing with personally for a long, long time, and face them head on. The epic journey to see the end all culminates in one of the filthiest breakdowns I've ever heard to close out the final minute, and goddamn it's cathartic.
Then there's Euclid. There's two lines that really touched me:
"I just need to leave this part of me behind"
"I must be someone new"
This song felt like a goodbye. All the callbacks to previous songs, all the talk of acceptance and moving on, it just felt like I was saying goodbye. Maybe not necessarily to the band (God I hope not), but to this story. To so many things I've gone through in my life for at least the last decade. To things that NEED to be left behind. And because music is more powerful than we give it credit it, I feel like this song, or rather, this album, has given me the will to accept things about life, and to say goodbye. And to leave those parts of me behind.
Also, I mentioned before how "The Night Does Not Belong To God" was the first Sleep Token song I ever heard. So for the album to end with THAT callback. Boy, that did some things to my psyche.
Very few records or bands affect me as much as Sleep Token does, or how Take Me Back To Eden did. It was heart wrenching, but at the same time, I feel like a heavy weight has been lifted from my soul. I can finally leave this part of me behind.
Man, seeing them in NYC in September is going to be something indescribable to me.
Music is a weird thing. But it's also wonderful and cathartic.
Worship.
I discovered Sleep Token in early 2020. A little before lockdown started. I saw someone on IG listening to Sundowning and thought the album art looked neat, so I gave it a try. By the end of "The Night Does Not Belong To God", I was hooked. Went back and listened to the EPs. Grabbed it on vinyl before their vinyls became more valuable than gold, a bunch of merch, some a little obscure (I only own scarves from two bands, these guys, and So Hideous).
And then covid happened. It became hard to cope as time went on (as in sure it did for many of us), but if I can point to an album that helped me cope, it was Sundowning. It was new. It was something I haven't heard before. And there were lyrics that really spoke directly to me (Dark Sign: 'I may break and bend to my basic need to be loved and close to somebody'. Blood Sport: 'I wanna be forgiven, I want to choke up chunks of my own sins'). 2020 granted too much time to reflect, and this album aided in this
This Place Will Become Your Tomb came. I remember Alkaline dropping, and just being hypnotized the moment the guitar dropped and Vessel sings 'Lets talk about chemistry...'. "The Love You Want" is still top 3 ST songs for me, with that final chorus with the crushing guitars giving me chills every time. For a while I thought Sundowning had stronger songs, but Tomb was a more cohesive album. This only became more true as time went on. And like Sundowning did with 2020, Tomb felt like a good sountrack to 2021: things were starting to improve, but it was still a dark time.
And here we are, with Take Me Back To Eden.
Let's get the surface points out of the way. Short version: I heard someone on YouTube say "This is what it sounds like when a band finds their sound." And did they. Somehow, there's Pop, R&B, Trap, Soul, Classic Rock, Prog, and Brutal Metal, and it just.... Works. Love or hate them, you can't deny Sleep Tokens uniqueness. The 6 singles I think have been spoken about enough (I'm gonna go ahead and say it, DYWTYLM is probably my 2nd or 3rd favorite song on here. Yet somehow, "Are You Really Okay?" Is my least favorite, but still a damn good song with amazing lyrics). "Ascensionism" is a straight up movie, going from ballad to trap rap to one hell of a breakdown in the middle. "Rain" is just epic, while not as long as the lengthy epics on here, it still rules. "The Apparition" is haunting R&B that again, they just make it theirs and make it work.
But there's two tracks I need to elaborate on, and those are the final two.
"Take Me Back To Eden", the title track, is their crown jewel. This song just feels like approaching the end of a journey, with some final harships to face. All the emotions are just laid bare in a way that stands out from the rest of their discography. It gave me a sense of trying to come to terms with many things I've been doing with personally for a long, long time, and face them head on. The epic journey to see the end all culminates in one of the filthiest breakdowns I've ever heard to close out the final minute, and goddamn it's cathartic.
Then there's Euclid. There's two lines that really touched me:
"I just need to leave this part of me behind"
"I must be someone new"
This song felt like a goodbye. All the callbacks to previous songs, all the talk of acceptance and moving on, it just felt like I was saying goodbye. Maybe not necessarily to the band (God I hope not), but to this story. To so many things I've gone through in my life for at least the last decade. To things that NEED to be left behind. And because music is more powerful than we give it credit it, I feel like this song, or rather, this album, has given me the will to accept things about life, and to say goodbye. And to leave those parts of me behind.
Also, I mentioned before how "The Night Does Not Belong To God" was the first Sleep Token song I ever heard. So for the album to end with THAT callback. Boy, that did some things to my psyche.
Very few records or bands affect me as much as Sleep Token does, or how Take Me Back To Eden did. It was heart wrenching, but at the same time, I feel like a heavy weight has been lifted from my soul. I can finally leave this part of me behind.
Man, seeing them in NYC in September is going to be something indescribable to me.
Music is a weird thing. But it's also wonderful and cathartic.
Worship.
I REALLY liked Vore when I heard it a month or 2 ago and have kept coming back to it, but more recently I heard DYWTYLM and had to skip to the next song in my Spotify recent releases playlist after 30 seconds. I like their heavier metal stuff, it seems, but much less of the poppy stuff. I'll have to check out the album and go back to their older stuff, but am open to suggestions.
MetalDestroyer
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I think Euclid might be one of my favorite songs I’ve heard in the last few years
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Such an incredible album, I’m loving Rain and Euclid the most, title track is also great, and of course The Summoning has been an absolute banger for awhile now
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I`m at my 10th listen and I love it more and more.
The songwriting is just outstanding, drifting from one genre to another while the core is still metal. There is more genre-bending than ever: RNB, Trap, Jazz, Blackmetal and countless other genres and it always works! Nothing feels out of place, every bar has its purpose. Beautiful passages, thunderous riffs, intricate drumming and the vocal delivery is just otherwordly. Soulful vocals, screams and now even a few rap-parts. The dude could`ve been the next Drake (commercially speaking, Vessel`s skill is way above of course haha) but instead chose to dress like a black metal singer, grabbed an 8 string and wrote this (Vessel, apparently, still writes and records everything except drums)
And every second, no matter where the songs goes, sounds unmistakingly like Sleep Token. I feel that this is one of the bands that sounds utterly unique and will remain to do so, instantly recognizable.
The compositions are so tasteful, elegant, complex if needed, stripped back if necessary and always complemented by the drummer who this time seems to hold back a bit, probably to let the now more complex instruments shine through a bit more. Nothing is overplayed, it`s simply perfect. There are a few tracks (as with every album before) that I don`t really listen to too often ("Are you really ok" and DYWTYLM) but the rest is perfect. Out of the new tracks I like Ascenionism and Take Me Back To Eden the most, just absolut UNITS of a track!
Now it makes sense that it was meant as trilogy, there are a lot of easter eggs and references to older songs. Some well hidden, some more obvious, painting a bigger picture when listened together.
I`m really curious where this will go now, maybe a new character (Ghost-style) fronting the band even? Who knows, for now I`m excited enough about this one
My highlights:
The songwriting is just outstanding, drifting from one genre to another while the core is still metal. There is more genre-bending than ever: RNB, Trap, Jazz, Blackmetal and countless other genres and it always works! Nothing feels out of place, every bar has its purpose. Beautiful passages, thunderous riffs, intricate drumming and the vocal delivery is just otherwordly. Soulful vocals, screams and now even a few rap-parts. The dude could`ve been the next Drake (commercially speaking, Vessel`s skill is way above of course haha) but instead chose to dress like a black metal singer, grabbed an 8 string and wrote this (Vessel, apparently, still writes and records everything except drums)
And every second, no matter where the songs goes, sounds unmistakingly like Sleep Token. I feel that this is one of the bands that sounds utterly unique and will remain to do so, instantly recognizable.
The compositions are so tasteful, elegant, complex if needed, stripped back if necessary and always complemented by the drummer who this time seems to hold back a bit, probably to let the now more complex instruments shine through a bit more. Nothing is overplayed, it`s simply perfect. There are a few tracks (as with every album before) that I don`t really listen to too often ("Are you really ok" and DYWTYLM) but the rest is perfect. Out of the new tracks I like Ascenionism and Take Me Back To Eden the most, just absolut UNITS of a track!
Now it makes sense that it was meant as trilogy, there are a lot of easter eggs and references to older songs. Some well hidden, some more obvious, painting a bigger picture when listened together.
I`m really curious where this will go now, maybe a new character (Ghost-style) fronting the band even? Who knows, for now I`m excited enough about this one
My highlights:
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