"How can a voice sound so strong and so fragile at the same time?" Right? Vessel is so good at belting out these strong vocals but they have this vulnerability to them somehow too like... unbelievable. I think this element is what's missing for me in other strong vocalists, where it is obvious they're an amazing vocalist but there's no FEELING in their singing, y'know? Which I know a lot of these bands inject that feeling in their live performances, but I wish more bands did that for their studio albums like ST and a couple other bands I'm forever obsessed with.
Think this is sort of why I like hardcore a lot more than like deathcore. Deathcore vocals often just feel like a technique, and not something that passionate. Hardcore on the other hand has a bunch of vocalists where they may not have the best techniques but you definitely feel their passion coming through
@@Joseph-R Yes! Exactly! Like, I try to listen to deathcore bc I DO like heavier tracks, and I recognize the skill that goes into it, but it just feels like a technique, when I personally want music to make me FEEL things. like deathcore sometimes just goes in one ear out the other bc it utimately wasn't created to make me FEEL anything except the beat and the overall aggression. I can def appreciate deathcore for the skill it takes to perform it, but hardcore/metalcore is what I'll gravitate to forever to just FEEL something.
I saw them play this live yesterday and it's amazing. Also Sleep Token really mastered their sound with these two new singles and I can't wait for more 🤘
Something people aren't mentioning a lot is that this song is produced *so* well. It's a big part of why it sounds pretty cohesive despite all the genre shifts. I listen to a lot of prog metal. One of my favorite albums is Inmazes by VOLA, which has a similar vibe to this, but it's kind of like putting your ears through a cheese grater sometimes.
I just discovered Sleep Token this weekend, and this was the first song I heard from them. Quite literally one of the biggest and most beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. Discovering that song lead me down a rabbit hole of reaction videos, bringing me to this channel and I have to say, you described everything so well and captured my exact thoughts about it. Definitely going to hit the subscribe button man! Great work!
The new album is called 'Take Me Back To Eden' - I won't spoil anything more but this little taste is just the start of the hype train into release. In terms of what is coming next (maybe tomorrow if we all worship a bit harder today? Regular release intervals is what they did with Sundowning launch), i'll just say that we definitely won't be taking Sleep Token for 'Granite' any more after the next track drops.
These two new songs are easily their best. I liked sleep token before this, have done since 2020... but after these two newbies, they've gone waaaaaaay up my list of bands that I'm stoked about.
I'm the exact same. Since these two dropped I can't believe how much I've been jamming them and even more of the older stuff just because I can't get enough of them atm and I've listened to their entire albums prior and they didn't hit like this.
First got into them a few weeks ago when I discovered this song. After listening to their other stuff, I gotta say that this is definitely their best song IMO in terms of the song composition, overall technique, and mixing/mastering. Just a clearly different level.
My favorite discovery of 2023! Sleep Token is blowing my mind!!! I really enjoyed your authentic reaction as well as the imagery and feel you conveyed (80s driving scene, windows down with neon lights, false sense of security, flowing stream, going home,…). You completely nailed it! Thanks for sharing your experience with us 😉
god damn it, no matter how many times i hear any sleep token song it still has weight i have listened to all their songs atleast 60 times and they are still fresh and gives goosebumps, such an amazing band
Aye a fellow Adelaidian Sleep Token fan! Love to see it. This band is all I've been listening to for the past couple of weeks. They have so much variety and all of it is absolute quality. Dude's voice is something else
Loved your reactions to the recent releases. They've been my favourite band for a couple of years now. Great to hear a musicians take and appreciation of an awesome innovative band. I'm off to see them live next weekend in the UK with Northlane as support. Can't wait. Keep up the great work. 🤘
Saw them live just a week ago. It was crazy good. Vessel sounds live even better then on this Tracks. You should catch them live too If you have the chance! Its very unique :) Greetings from Germany
When I first heard it it reminded me of Pony by Genuine. Then I heard the FAR version and it made me think that was the inspiration. I could be 100 % wrong though lol
@@MiguelRamirez-cr7gh Amazing lol. I think the vocals sort of reminded me of Kaleo's Way Down We Go after about 2:20 ish in the song. Kind of a similar raw bluesy quality to the vocals, but Sleep Token is more on the funk side at the end of this tune
@@kmcelligott4 Ohhh I forgot about Kaleo and that song. I think that’s why a lot of people don’t like his voice, it sounds too similar to those folk indie pop type of bands. Hozier, Imagine Dragons, etc. i personally like what it adds to the metal scene. But I love all type of music so 🤷🏽♂️ lol
@@MiguelRamirez-cr7gh I'm the same way. I can listen to anything from Nina Simone to NIN to Screamin' Jay Hawkins to Patsy Cline to FKA Twigs. I listen to just about everything
@@kmcelligott4 Pasty Cline hell yes. I’m actually a huge country music fan. Old country music just hits me in the feels. But I grew up on hip hop and oldies, started listening to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones when I got older, then just branched out from there lol
Us from the ST Community have already figured out that ST is gonna drop a 12 track album somewhere this year. It'll be called: Take Me Back To Eden These 2 singles are the first 2 in order of the album. Check on GENIUS from the rest of the album
It's so, so good to hear a completely original and unique track. Pushing the boundaries and pulling it off with class. I'd love to see a collab with Polyphia and maybe some hip hop artists. Great reviews also Josh, capturing everything that makes this song so sick
If sleep token goes out of their way to hide their identity, I’m sure and hoping they’d never want any deals from record companies that would want to change them to main stream. I just don’t see them being interested. Seem like a band that will forever stick to their roots
I dont know what to say.. im not that furmilliar with these type of music.. i guess i have to hear it more often, before saying stuff i dont mean.. whaaat? It Just changed into im only human.. dont put the blame on me🤣
@@SeventhCircle77 dont think so homie. They just started releasing songs. After about a year Will ramos did that cover of Hypnosis like a few months ago and got them more attention
Where’d you get that info? I’m not convinced, it sounds a lot like his style…and if you’ve gone down the rabbit hole and know who the drummer is, it definitely still sounds like his normal material
@@TheRealNebari belay that, I was high as shit when I made that last comment lmao. I misinterpreted a conversation at the time with a mate where he outlined that the drums where programmed, and ii wasn’t listed in the credits. So since only vessel was listed i would assume it was himself. Feel like an idiot now ahaha.
@@busterbillbo3283 you’re good lol. I just freaked out a little because vessel and ii have been writing the ST music together for a long time. He is indeed credited on this song if you look it up on ascap, but I don’t recommend doing that if you don’t wanna know who they are.
Sleep Token - Take Me Back To Eden FULL ALBUM REACTION www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-token-take-83343372
Sleep Token needs to be protected at all costs. One of the most talented bands in music today. The song is perfection. Worship. 💙
Thank you.
My bad
“This part of the song is going home.”
To make LOVE.
FACTS! That funk makes me feel like Vessel owes me child support lol
"How can a voice sound so strong and so fragile at the same time?" Right? Vessel is so good at belting out these strong vocals but they have this vulnerability to them somehow too like... unbelievable.
I think this element is what's missing for me in other strong vocalists, where it is obvious they're an amazing vocalist but there's no FEELING in their singing, y'know? Which I know a lot of these bands inject that feeling in their live performances, but I wish more bands did that for their studio albums like ST and a couple other bands I'm forever obsessed with.
Think this is sort of why I like hardcore a lot more than like deathcore. Deathcore vocals often just feel like a technique, and not something that passionate. Hardcore on the other hand has a bunch of vocalists where they may not have the best techniques but you definitely feel their passion coming through
@@Joseph-R Yes! Exactly! Like, I try to listen to deathcore bc I DO like heavier tracks, and I recognize the skill that goes into it, but it just feels like a technique, when I personally want music to make me FEEL things. like deathcore sometimes just goes in one ear out the other bc it utimately wasn't created to make me FEEL anything except the beat and the overall aggression. I can def appreciate deathcore for the skill it takes to perform it, but hardcore/metalcore is what I'll gravitate to forever to just FEEL something.
I saw them play this live yesterday and it's amazing. Also Sleep Token really mastered their sound with these two new singles and I can't wait for more 🤘
They played this one live ????
@@quantummmmmmmm yep
@@Andrew_-nr7zt I can't find it on the tube yet haha
@@quantummmmmmmm na just chokehold
They didn't play the summoning live, or did I just miss it yesterday 🤔
Chad Token:
No news of new single for a year,
Decided to drop singles back to back,
Said nothing,
Leave.
Something people aren't mentioning a lot is that this song is produced *so* well. It's a big part of why it sounds pretty cohesive despite all the genre shifts.
I listen to a lot of prog metal. One of my favorite albums is Inmazes by VOLA, which has a similar vibe to this, but it's kind of like putting your ears through a cheese grater sometimes.
yeah there’s a ton of layers in these new songs. a lot of really subtle and nice keyboard playing especially
I just discovered Sleep Token this weekend, and this was the first song I heard from them. Quite literally one of the biggest and most beautiful songs I've heard in a long time. Discovering that song lead me down a rabbit hole of reaction videos, bringing me to this channel and I have to say, you described everything so well and captured my exact thoughts about it. Definitely going to hit the subscribe button man! Great work!
The 80s driving through rain at night totally pictured that being a movie scene with this song playing on the radio
The new album is called 'Take Me Back To Eden' - I won't spoil anything more but this little taste is just the start of the hype train into release.
In terms of what is coming next (maybe tomorrow if we all worship a bit harder today? Regular release intervals is what they did with Sundowning launch), i'll just say that we definitely won't be taking Sleep Token for 'Granite' any more after the next track drops.
Thanks! Worship!
Oh you sly dog 😏
My favourite reaction of this song I'd say. Very genuine, but you always nailed it
Thank you so much! Really nice of you!
Not sure if you know or not but Periphery are dropping 2 singles tomorrow!
I'M SO EXCITEDDDDD
Yeah Periphery and ST are going to OWN 2023
imagine it was a Periphery x Sleep Token collaboration I'd lose my balls lol
These two new songs are easily their best. I liked sleep token before this, have done since 2020... but after these two newbies, they've gone waaaaaaay up my list of bands that I'm stoked about.
I'm the exact same. Since these two dropped I can't believe how much I've been jamming them and even more of the older stuff just because I can't get enough of them atm and I've listened to their entire albums prior and they didn't hit like this.
First got into them a few weeks ago when I discovered this song. After listening to their other stuff, I gotta say that this is definitely their best song IMO in terms of the song composition, overall technique, and mixing/mastering. Just a clearly different level.
This song has been on repeat since it released, it's a masterpiece! :O
2023 is the year of Sleep Token. Worship 🙏
My favorite discovery of 2023! Sleep Token is blowing my mind!!! I really enjoyed your authentic reaction as well as the imagery and feel you conveyed (80s driving scene, windows down with neon lights, false sense of security, flowing stream, going home,…). You completely nailed it! Thanks for sharing your experience with us 😉
Granite should drop on the 19th and Aqua Regia on the 20th. At least these are the rumours.
Worship 🕯️
Funk Token 2023
god damn it, no matter how many times i hear any sleep token song it still has weight
i have listened to all their songs atleast 60 times and they are still fresh and gives goosebumps, such an amazing band
I want a Drum cam playthrough for this track so badly
I don't play drums but I'd watch it just because lol.
Aye a fellow Adelaidian Sleep Token fan! Love to see it. This band is all I've been listening to for the past couple of weeks. They have so much variety and all of it is absolute quality. Dude's voice is something else
Loved your reactions to the recent releases. They've been my favourite band for a couple of years now. Great to hear a musicians take and appreciation of an awesome innovative band. I'm off to see them live next weekend in the UK with Northlane as support. Can't wait. Keep up the great work. 🤘
Another new one just released tonight. I guess you’ll be getting to that before too long. 🤣 Aqua Regia out tomorrow night I assume? 🤔
Saw them live just a week ago. It was crazy good. Vessel sounds live even better then on this Tracks. You should catch them live too If you have the chance! Its very unique :)
Greetings from Germany
The H you were looking for was heavenly. 🕊️✨
Got to see this, Chokehold, Granite and Aqua Regia live last weekend. A real privilege.
The chug and the screams really threw me for a loop...and that ending, LOL. Got me hyped for the new record, apparently called Take Me Back To Eden.
One of my favourite songs from them if I'm being honest!
"This part of the song is going home"
Yeah, goin' home to MAKE BABIES
The ending of the song reminds me of another song I've heard somewhere and I can't quite figure out wtf it's reminding me of! But it's hotttt af.
When I first heard it it reminded me of Pony by Genuine. Then I heard the FAR version and it made me think that was the inspiration. I could be 100 % wrong though lol
@@MiguelRamirez-cr7gh Amazing lol. I think the vocals sort of reminded me of Kaleo's Way Down We Go after about 2:20 ish in the song. Kind of a similar raw bluesy quality to the vocals, but Sleep Token is more on the funk side at the end of this tune
@@kmcelligott4 Ohhh I forgot about Kaleo and that song. I think that’s why a lot of people don’t like his voice, it sounds too similar to those folk indie pop type of bands. Hozier, Imagine Dragons, etc. i personally like what it adds to the metal scene. But I love all type of music so 🤷🏽♂️ lol
@@MiguelRamirez-cr7gh I'm the same way. I can listen to anything from Nina Simone to NIN to Screamin' Jay Hawkins to Patsy Cline to FKA Twigs. I listen to just about everything
@@kmcelligott4 Pasty Cline hell yes. I’m actually a huge country music fan. Old country music just hits me in the feels. But I grew up on hip hop and oldies, started listening to Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones when I got older, then just branched out from there lol
This is up there for me as songs they have dropped for sure!
Was so excited to see you react to the ending with that bass lol
Us from the ST Community have already figured out that ST is gonna drop a 12 track album somewhere this year. It'll be called: Take Me Back To Eden
These 2 singles are the first 2 in order of the album. Check on GENIUS from the rest of the album
Showed this song to an aussie friend of mine today. His jaw dropped 🤣
There is an album officially announced, it's going to be called Take Me Back to Eden and the tracklist has been released/maybe leaked.
This song really feels like 3 different 🥲 so fckin good 🔥🤘
It's so, so good to hear a completely original and unique track. Pushing the boundaries and pulling it off with class. I'd love to see a collab with Polyphia and maybe some hip hop artists. Great reviews also Josh, capturing everything that makes this song so sick
Sleep Token do have a new album dropping this year titled, Take Me Back To Eden.
Producer: What kind of feeling and melody we gonna hit with this one?
Vessel: Yes
This guy has a 5 octave vocal range. That's how he does it. Go look up Mariah Carey like I did. This is nuts.
2:45 Everytime i hear this section i cant help but hear Ghost.
Vessel has ascended. Worship
Boundaries - Heaven's Broken Heart is a must do for amazing unlimited breakdowns ❤️
Has a very distinct Breaking Benjamin feel which I love
Literally was thinking the same thing!!!
The singer needs to do a feature with Polyphia!👏👏
Frfr
@@hawthornedrive Oops😬😁
I don't know if the world could handle Vessel and Polyphia
If sleep token goes out of their way to hide their identity, I’m sure and hoping they’d never want any deals from record companies that would want to change them to main stream. I just don’t see them being interested. Seem like a band that will forever stick to their roots
Heavy era tesseract vibes
"I dunno what to do with my hands!" Well hey now! Down boy! 😂
New album ‘ take me back to Eden ‘ 19th May
Oh it’s preordered my friend!
🤯 brilliantly weird, another great reaction though!
the first part of the song is total Deftones.
100% agree, got some definite Deftones vibes!
@Creationeer Gaming I've always heard some deftones & a perfect circle influence in these guys!
@@judgepage6605 Same, which is perfectly fine, they are still on my list of all time greats :D
The chorus is straight up Deftones
‘Sundowning’ Full album reaction available now on my Patreon! www.patreon.com/posts/sleep-token-full-77919566
Full album Take Me Back To Eden out this year :) looking forward to seeing them on the 19th!
The riffs on this could easily feature on any anime series or a FF end game boss haha
I let it in an it took everything ENHANCED
Perfect 👌
Started off like Butterfly Effect, ended like the Ruebens. Wild track.
They remind me of the ocean tbh
Diana leah favourite song 🔥👏👍
Leo gets it!!
Worship
Because vessel is the God and mastered it.
Oli Sykes style screams followed by groovy/ pink Floyd sounds. Weird but cool
it’s like four songs
I dont know what to say.. im not that furmilliar with these type of music.. i guess i have to hear it more often, before saying stuff i dont mean.. whaaat? It Just changed into im only human.. dont put the blame on me🤣
I know it’s not, but all I can hear is James Arthur lol
What else starts with H? lol
Will ramos got these people all the attention with his cover of Hypnosis and im here for it
Nah, sleep token just delivered so well and they got this attention through their own artistry.
@@SeventhCircle77 dont think so homie. They just started releasing songs. After about a year
Will ramos did that cover of Hypnosis like a few months ago and got them more attention
@@thycactuskingOr the 1-2 punch of both was the reason why lmao
Believe it or not they supposedly used a different drummer for the track rather than ii.
Where’d you get that info? I’m not convinced, it sounds a lot like his style…and if you’ve gone down the rabbit hole and know who the drummer is, it definitely still sounds like his normal material
@@TheRealNebari belay that, I was high as shit when I made that last comment lmao.
I misinterpreted a conversation at the time with a mate where he outlined that the drums where programmed, and ii wasn’t listed in the credits.
So since only vessel was listed i would assume it was himself.
Feel like an idiot now ahaha.
@@busterbillbo3283 you’re good lol. I just freaked out a little because vessel and ii have been writing the ST music together for a long time. He is indeed credited on this song if you look it up on ascap, but I don’t recommend doing that if you don’t wanna know who they are.
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