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DARK SECRETS: Sleep token | Vintage Vibes

My pick of the best guitar gear launched this week: holy grail tube tones, Sleep Token’s debut signature collab and a guitar that might be a bass

All the big new drops from PRS Guitars, Charvel, Jackson, Gibson, Friedman Amplification and much more

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Sleep Token love them. Progressive guitar heroes worship them. But they imploded spectacularly. This is the story of unsung prog icons Oceansize: “We put ourselves through hell because we knew we were better than everybody else in the music industry”

Major players including Misha Mansoor and Yvette Young have cited Oceansize as an influence, yet the combustible UK outfit remain under the radar – in part because they simply cannot be imitated

Guitar World

"It’s among the most comfortable five-string necks I’ve ever played": Charvel Sleep Token III Signature Pro-Mod San Dimas Bass V review

Behold – a five-string offering from Charvel, on behalf of mysterious modern metal outfit Sleep Token

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Want to make music like Sleep Token? Bassist III and guitarist IV show off new signature instruments with vocal-free version of Vore

Jackson and Charvel announce guitar and bass models based on the pop-metal superstars’ specs, starting at £1,399

Metal Hammer

Sleep Token's Take Me Back To Eden officially goes platinum in the US with over two billion streams

The band's 2023 breakthrough marks their first Platinum Certified record, but also confirms their status as one of the biggest and most successful metal bands of this century

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“Born out of my own struggle with existential crisis and trying to make sense of belief, mortality and humanity’s relationship with faith”: President begin debut album Blood Of Your Empire campaign with new single Doom Loop

Their first full-length statement drops on September 4 via Atlantic

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Rail firm bans Download festival-goers from bringing wheelie bins full of beer onto trains: “While it might seem like a great idea, it just isn’t safe”

“Our teams will be on hand at stations to support customers and help them complete their journeys, without their bins or trolleys, as smoothly as possible,” says East Midlands Railway

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“People say they hate them, that they’re ruining metal, but it’s not a battle. They mean a lot to people, so why is that a bad thing?”: What happened when we met Sleep Token’s fans at the biggest show of the masked cult’s career

Last year, we descended upon the Download festival field and got to know the rabid following behind the metal sensation

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"A new immersive experience." Sleep Token have just surprise-released a brand new version of their history-making album, Even In Arcadia

Ever wanted to hear what Sleep Token's biggest album would sound like without Vessel crooning all over it? Have we got news for you!

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"I joined the circus!" How tragedy, a stint in Sleep Token and a very surprising career detour defined the fall and rise of one of British metalcore's most promising bands, Shields

Shields have been through the ringer to get back together, but it's been worth it

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‘I couldn’t see, breathe or sing. I blacked out twice’: why are so many metal bands wearing masks?

From Sleep Token to Ghost and Slaughter to Prevail, the genre’s biggest stars are using freaky facial disguises. Are they hiding behind them – or revealing their true nature?

The Guardian - UK

"I’m not indoctrinated anymore." How weird masks, wild rallies and big choruses helped President became one of metal's hottest new bands

From an overpacked tent debut at Download Festival to sell-out shows across the Atlantic, President are quickly becoming one of metal's biggest new bands

Metal Hammer

"I wanted to be able to say we are the next big thing.” Army drills, TikTok hits and nu metal: Sleep Theory are metalcore's fastest rising stars

Sleep Theory founder and vocalist Cullen Moore shares his band's journey from military service to selling out venues both sides of the Atlantic

Louder

"Would Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin have been as cool if the internet was around to expose everything?" Black Stone Cherry's Chris Robertson on social media, the creative inspiration of dogs and battling Darth Vader

Black Stone Cherry's new EP Celebrate is out next month – and includes a very unlikely cover version

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“We have the same management, and we both wear masks. Is that it?!” President vocalist blasts comparisons to Sleep Token as “lazy”

Mr President doesn’t see the similarities between his band and the other masked, anonymous, pop-metal sensations dominating heavy music discourse

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What the 2026 Grammys got right about rock and metal this year - and what they got very wrong

As is so often the case, the rock and metal representation at this year's Grammys was a mix of deserved recognition and total clangers

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"We expected a few hundred people to be there and it was several thousand. We were terrified!" Deftones, Sleep Token, Bad Omens...The Pretty Wild? Meet the viral metal duo officially embracing that controversial 'baddiecore' tag

They're behind that 'cough-cough' mosh call you've probably seen all over metal TikTok

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Metal Hammer reader's poll - the best metal albums of 2025

From Ghost to Sleep Token, Babymetal to Spiritbox, these are the albums you said defined metal in 2025

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UK recorded music market grows for an 11th consecutive year in 2025

The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) said British artists such as Olivia Dean and Lola Young led a British music revival over the past 12 months.

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“2025 has seen tentpole releases from Ghost and Sleep Token, but for each of them, there’s been at least a dozen records begging for attention”: The best metal albums that you almost definitely missed this year

From psychedelic Brazilian black metal to space-faring tech-death, you won’t discover these excellent albums in many other places

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The 10 best alt-metal and nu metal albums of 2025

Babymetal, Bloodywood and Sleep Token pulled influence from some esoteric places this year, and they lifted metal to new heights in the process

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Haters, look away now: Sleep Token’s Even In Arcadia has been certified Gold in the United Kingdom

The masked metal superstars have shipped 100,000 units or equivalent of their latest album in their home country

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Sleep Token accused of copyright infringement by photographer who claims picture was used on merch without permission

The tables appear to have turned on Sleep Token, who have previously taken a hard line on copyright issues

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Vote for the best metal album of 2025

We've crowned Ghost's Skeleta in the writer's poll - but which metal albums from 2025 excited you most?

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"The audience for heavy music is absolutely growing. It feels like expansion, not nostalgia" Sleep Token's manager has been speaking about the band's extraordinary success in 2025, and what it means for rock and metal as a whole moving forwards

After further securing their place as one of the world's biggest bands, the man who works closest with Sleep Token has some ideas about why it's happened

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