Sleep Token announced new album ‘Even In Arcadia’

“A new offering”. That’s how the London mysterious company Sleep Token calls its new studio album ‘Even In Arcadia’, which will be released on CD, vinyl (in a series of beautiful configurations) and digitally on Friday 9 May via RCA Records (/Sony Music Entertainment). Together with the announcement, this enigmatic collective released the long-awaited first single and video ‘Emergence‘.

Linktree ‘Emergence‘ – https://sleeptoken.lnk.to/Emergence

‘Even In Arcadia’ is the follow-up to the third album ‘Take Me Back To Eden’ released in 2023 (which has almost a billion streams on Spotify) and continues the unfolding journey, on which Sleep Token further interweaves the boundaries of sound and emotion and dissolves them into something otherworldly.

Pre-order here.

The elusive mysterious Sleep Token was founded in 2016, according to his own lore, when frontman Vessel received a message from the spiritual entity Sleep one night in his dream, who is honored in songs such as ‘Chokehold’, ‘The Summoning’ and ‘The Offering’. Sleep Token has released three studio albums to date: ‘Sundowning‘ (2019), ‘This Place Will Become Your Tomb’ (2021), and ‘Take Me Back to Eden’ (2023).

Musically, the anonymous band – which presents itself as a kind of cult that worships supreme being Sleep and dresses itself in dark robes, painted faces and terrifying masks – offers a stylistically unique amalgam of pop, hip-hop, electronica, post rock, djent, R&B, prog and (technical) metal.

It is indicative of the massive popularity and especially the recent rapid growth of Sleep Token, which is poised to take on future headline positions at major summer festivals. Everything Sleep Token does is in service of spiritual symbolism: concerts are sacred rituals, and the fans are church disciples attending a mystical conjuring congregation.

SLEEP TOKEN
Vessel – vocals; studio guitar, keyboards, bass, production
II – drums, percussion
III – touring member; bass guitar
IV – touring member; guitar, backing vocals
Espera – touring members; backing vocals