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"It’s incredible to feel like part of something." Inside the devoted fanbase of Sleep Token, the biggest metal band of the decade

Dressing up, deciphering codes and creating sex playlists: We explore the cult of Sleep Token at their biggest show to date

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British metal has ruled the world this summer – just this once, I’m actually proud of my country

From Black Sabbath’s blockbuster farewell to Sleep Token’s first time as a Download festival headliner, all eyes have been on the British metal scene in recent months. Rightfully so.

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We told Deftones singer Chino Moreno what ‘baddiecore’ is and this was his response

The frontman reacts to his band being at the forefront of a new, sexed-up metal genre also featuring Sleep Token and Bad Omens

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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”: 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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"I started crying when I came off-stage. It ****ing broke me!" An audience with President, metal's newest mysterious masked sensation

Following in the footsteps of Ghost and Sleep Token, President are taking the metal world by storm

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So there's a Sleep Token tribute band now and it honestly looks like great fun

Watch a video from Sleep Broken's performance in Milton Keynes this past weekend. What would Vessel make of this?!

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“Sleep Token are big fans of what we did, and they’re the biggest rock band in the world right now. That means a lot”: From Oceansize to Biffy Clyro and now Cardiacs, Mike Vennart is one of the UK’s greatest under-the-radar guitar talents

With a style somewhere between shred, Slayer and Pavement, Mike Vennart has headlined some of the world’s biggest festivals, played with Dave Lombardo, and now he’s fronting his all-time favorite band. He attempts to make sense of the many twists and turns in his career

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Sleep Token cameo, Black Sabbath jam, a surprise Robb Flynn...I think I might have just watched Trivium play their greatest festival set ever. Yep, even better than THAT Download one

Self-proclaimed "kings of metal" Trivium set an impossibly high bar headlining Friday night of Bloodstock Open Air 2025

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“If you know me, you know I love Sleep Token”: Lorna Shore’s Will Ramos names the most inspirational singers in metal

From Sleep Token’s Vessel to Whitechapel’s Phil Bozeman, Lorna Shore’s frontman picks his greatest vocal influences

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Ghost’s Tobias Forge says Sleep Token are one of the bands proving rock isn’t dead: “You can form a band tomorrow and theoretically become a big band within a few years”

Forge takes issue with Kiss man Gene Simmons’ infamous “rock is dead” stance during a new interview

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“Social media was aroused, then curious, then hooked on the rest of Sleep Token’s material”: How The Summoning turned a faceless cult into metal’s most surprising breakout band

Sleep Token seemed to be too weird for mainstream success – then The Summoning turned them into overnight sensations

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“Now it’s coming back and everyone is getting excited about it”: Liam Gallagher’s son thinks guitar music is only now making a return – and the Oasis reunion could be to thank

Gene Gallagher, of indie band Villanelle, says a new era of rock music is here

Guitar World

Metal Hammer has teamed with rock festival Radar to design the cat pyjamas your wardrobe is incomplete without

Get your paws on a neon set of kitty PJs via the Louder webstore – and do it quickly, because we only have 50!

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Korn say Sleep Token “shut up” the haters with Download festival headline set: “They went bigger than a Slipknot stage”

Brian “Head” Welch and James “Munky” Shaffer think that Sleep Token proved the doubters wrong with their show at the UK’s biggest rock/metal extravaganza last week

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8 things we learned at Download Festival 2025

From Spiritbox and President to Cradle Of Filth, Anaal Nathrakh and erm, The Vengaboys, these are the bands that ruled and defined Download Festival 2025

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‘It’s all fan-driven. People are in absolute raptures’: how mysterious masked rockers Sleep Token took over metal

They just headlined Download festival and their latest album went to No 1 in the US and UK – so why is Britain’s biggest metal band in a generation so hated by some?

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Watch latest masked metal sensations President play their first ever show at Download this past weekend

Mystery masked metallers President take a big leaf out of Sleep Token's book and draw a packed-out crowd at Download

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"Like it or not, Sleep Token are the metal sensation of the decade." Vessel and pals prove their doubters wrong during spellbinding Download headline set

Sleep Token confirm their status as the biggest thing to hit metal in a generation

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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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