Blows up the British metal scene in your path
Blows up the British metal scene in your path
Most influential band in metal since the 80's
I loathe listening to black people music, so no!
It even says poser right in the filename lmao
Definitely the type of band a guy with ear gauges and a patchy beard would take his fat girlfriend to Download to see
Why did he name himself Vessel?
Because he's a "vessel" of the god "sleep" who tells him to write their music (which is all about being sad about breaking up with your girlfriend from what I can tell)
I like Sleep Token but I don't care to label them as Metal, they're edgier Marianas Trench in my eyes which is cool
He's a vessel that contains cum
Devin Townsend but infinitely worse
Cute twink
and somehow that's still overselling them
Said this the other day but I don't mind at all.
Some shit genre hopping and questionable lyrics, but they've done really well. Don't get many British bands coming out of nowhere these days, they're all nepo babies or BRIT school AstroTurfed shite like that Lola Young
metal
Stop baiting me nigga, I'm tired and my feet hurt and I come on here and I just keep seeing bait shit, trying to goad me into a response, just cut the shit out man, what do you even get out of it. why is it satisfying to you.
Where can i pirate their albums to give it a try? I havent downloaded music in a while
it's just nu metal but again and with more elaborate costumes
coming out of nowhere
lol you actually believe this garbage ass band wasn't manufactured and astroturfed? the concept probably started in a board meeting of a multinational music corp and they hand picked the members like a boy band.
like you know what, I give up, okay fine. Slipknot is metal. Ghost is metal. Led Zeppelin is metal. Evanescence is metal. Staind is metal. Mindless Self Indulgence is metal. Bon Jovi is metal. Whatever. I don't care anymore. Just please stop calling this seven lions imagine dragons hipster bullshit metal, can I just have this one thing?
They've been releasing music for 9 years lad, progressively on larger labels until this new album on RCA. Actually very organic for once.
Leo was/is in Blacklit Canopy at the same time
youtu.be
be fan of band for over half of their career
band releases their worst album
suddenly blows up
suddenly everyone who previously didn't care is now a fan
has the worst takes about their older material
every fucking time
Eden > Sundowning > Tomb >>> Arcadia
I thought Eden was the one where they blew up though
Anyway, could you please tell me what their most "metal" song is? I'm one of the haters in this thread but honestly I listened to like two tracks on their first album awhile back and then put on like half of a single from the new album and that's about all I've really heard (but from what I remember it was all slow build anthemy stadium synthpop)
Slipknot is metal. Evanescence is metal. Staind is metal.
they objectively are, metal isn't just "music anon likes"
I can entertain that all three are "metal" and can also fully understand why the internet council of no fun has decided they are up for debate. I'm old. If it's not on metal-archives, it's metal-adjacent at best. But also I don't care. But also words have meaning and Sleep Token are so far removed from what I would even stretch to call "alternative" metal that it's insane.
How isn't this band metal?
hey you know that thing you like? we're doing it to but in a different way that isn't anything like the thing you like!
okay that's cool and all but you aren't doing it the way I like so at that point you're doing something else
it's called the same thing
but that's confusing since it isn't the same thing
WHY ARE YOU GATEKEEPING?
nu "metal" will never be metal
zoomer imagine dragons
youtu.be
because it doesn't sound like this
Saves guitar and rock music
Apologize.
it's metal for homosexuals and women
where's the bloody metal? even calling it alternative rock is generous.
suddenly everyone who previously didn't care is now a fan
let's not swallow the media hype too eagerly shall we, the album is already out of the Spotify top 50 after 3 weeks (Arctic Monkeys' AM is #16)
This sounds R&B like Hozier
you aren't doing it the way I like
Imagine Dragons are way less popular than they used to be and they're still getting twice more streams than ST, yesterday:
19 Coldplay
23 Linkin Park
50 Arctic Monkeys
52 Imagine Dragons
60 Radiohead
81 Cigarettes After Sex
94 Red Hot Chili Peppers
97 Sleep Token
105 Queen
107 The Beatles
109 Metallica
114 System Of A Down
122 Fleetwood Mac
125 Nirvana
135 Green Day
160 AC/DC
191 Guns N' Roses
193 Deftones
If this is your best example… I dont think you have a very good argument. This is an alternative song with a breakdown slapped onto the end of it that they clearly don’t give a shit about because it literally just fades out.
The issue is that metalcore has diverged to the point where its musical idiosyncrasies (atmospheric synths, spoken word lyrics, drop d guitar, etc…) that have nothing to do with metal or hardcore are now being used as identifiers for “metal.” Sleep token mostly draws from these elements, with the metalcore/djent specific guitar tones and drums, but none of the tempo, vocal performance, or general song structure that would suggest the genre of metal.
I think a good example of this blurry dividing line is a band like invent animate. If you listen to heavener there are a lot of songs that are fairly close to just being alternative, but it’s still a “metalcore” album because the majority of the songs utilize metal and hardcore influence. It’s a common structure in the genre because it gives some variety and contrast. However, with sleep token, it seems like they release entire albums of those “contrast” slow alternative songs that you see on metalcore albums. It’s like if I released a rap album of only interlude skits, and when you argued that it wasn’t rap I pointed out the similarities between my album and college dropout and the slim shady lp.
Infinite Baths is a killer song
You could check setlist fm to see how long they've built this fandom dumbass
Band for retarded fat women
You could check setlist fm
not metal
What’s he going to do with that sword?
Look To Windward slaps
Slipknot and Staind far from metal, Slipknot is garbage
It aches me that Slipknot is called metal
Greatest non-80s metal band of all time, it isn't even debatable, and they're not even done yet.