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Here's what Sleep Token played at their first ever Download headline set (videos inside)

Sleep Token made history by headlining Download festival for the first time - here's what they played

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The 10 best Sleep Token songs ever

From obscure masked metal curios to Download headliners and record-breaking streams, Sleep Token are the biggest thing to hit metal in a generation. Here are their 10 best songs so far

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“I’ve personally taken a lot of inspiration from the UK dance music scene": Mixwave just captured Sleep Token’s drummer – II – and trapped him inside a plugin

Get the distinctive sound of Sleep Token’s drums on your track, whatever your music style or DAW

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My favorite band and my favorite game studio are both weirdly taking me to the same fictional place this year

New information about The Outer Worlds 2 also informed me that two of my most anticipated releases of 2025 both feature the fictional "Arcadia." Huh, weird.

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The pretentious gatekeeping around Sleep Token points to a toxic heavy music culture - as a metal guitarist of over 25 years, I've seen this movie before

Don't get Sleep Token? That's fine, but let's stop it with the elitism, writes God Forbid's Doc Coyle

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"It took Bring Me The Horizon 10 years to get into arenas. Sleep Token did it in less than five." Inside the rise of Sleep Token, by those who were there

Sleep Token have become the biggest metal band of their generation. We spoke to the people who witnessed and assisted their meteoric rise

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"It's the least metal thing I've ever heard. You could put this in your hand luggage and it'd go through the scanners." TV presenter Richard Osman of Pointless and House of Games fame has discovered Sleep Token, and he's more than a little confused

"There's a very, very strong sense of Spinal Tap"

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“It would be a bit of an ego thing for me to say I made Sleep Token’s world”: Producer George Lever dishes the production secrets of the band’s first two albums and what he really thinks of their latest

Lever explains the two reverbs that became essential for the Sleep Token sound and what’s wrong with the band’s latest

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“We tried it as a laugh in sound check one day. Drummer II and I loved it so much that we stayed with it, and now that’s our standard setup”: What’s the secret sauce behind Sleep Token’s live drum sound?

Because delivering drums for one of rock’s hottest acts requires the breaking of more than a few rules

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Sleep Token break multiple records with chart-topping LP Even In Arcadia

Sleep Token are smashing records all over the place with their No.1 album 'Even In Arcadia'.

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Sleep Token's Even In Arcadia has officially reached number one in the UK album charts

Sleep Token have bagged their first UK number one album!

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"It was like seeing the future." The band who took Sleep Token on their first US tour recall hearing them for the first time

It was clear Sleep Token were special on their first US tour - but not everybody understood them

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Sleep Token are on course to score their first number one album on the UK and US charts with Even In Arcadia, out-selling Arcade Fire and Radiohead's Thom Yorke

Sleep Token are storming the charts on both sides of the Atlantic

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"Even In Arcadia might divide longtime Sleep Token fans, but it will almost certainly expose metal to its biggest audience yet." Sleep Token's new album is ambitious, intense and painfully honest

Sleep Token's fourth album takes a stark look at Vessel's fame while dabbling in the kind of genre-mashing that will delight some fans and shock others

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I asked Kling AI to generate a music video of my favourite band — here's how it went

AI video has come a long way and these clips prove it

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This acoustic guitar virtuoso has turned Sleep Token’s Euclid into the most gorgeous instrumental you’ll hear this weekend

UK guitar wizard Mike Dawes has released a studio version of his Euclid cover, after live recordings of it went viral last year

Guitar World

“That required some right hand training. It was like a tongue twister for my hands”: Mike Dawes has transformed a Sleep Token song into a solo acoustic guitar masterclass – and the results are awe-inspiring

The acoustic virtuoso has already tackled Foo Fighters, Van Halen, and Jimi Hendrix – now he's taking on the hottest act in metal

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“The melodies work so well in this CGDGAD tuning. I’ve absolutely fallen in love with this arrangement”: Magic Mike Dawes is at it again – he’s turned a Sleep Token track into a work of solo acoustic guitar genius

Dawes makes this sort of thing look easy but on the scale of difficulty his version of Euclid is up there with impossible

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The five most metal Sleep Token songs

The detractors say, “Sleep Token aren’t metal” – these songs reply, “Yeah, right!”

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Sleep Token are on the cover of Metal Hammer’s 400th issue – and there are two collectible covers to choose from

Sleep Token fans: will you choose the House Veridian Edition, or the House Feathered Host Edition?

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These are the 12 new metal songs you need to check out this week

Linkin Park, Sleep Token, Ghost, Sabaton and more have spoiled us with excellent songs this week. Hear them all and vote for your favourite here.

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Sleep Token invite listeners to "confront what lies beneath the mask" on exultant new single Damocles

Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month

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"It was the worst tour of my life." Nothing More's Jonny Hawkins on cursed tour with Sleep Token and In This Moment

A bus flooded with toilet water, missed flights, death, crew member quitting – Nothing More frontman recalls the tour from hell

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Sleep Token drop another new single Caramel – listen here

Vessel and co. will release their new album Even In Arcadia next month

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These 9 metal bands paved the way for Sleep Token

Get to know the pioneers who walked so Sleep Token could run

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