They literally are not a metal band lol As a lifelong fan of all things in the metal genre I decided to try listening to them just to see what the fuss was about. I listed to most of 2 albums. One seemed to shift from new age to indie to something that sounded like the soundtrack to a movie, the other mostly sounded like electro pop music.

Both albums had short segments of sort of heavy nü metal sounding guitars kind of tacked on almost like an after thought. It seemed completely disjointed and the various parts didn’t really fit together at all.

If you like this kind of music fine, I’m not going to tell people what to listen to. Some of it was actually pretty good here and there. I just don’t understand this overwhelming need people seem to have to call them a “metal” band. Why would anyone want to call it that? They seem like one of those bands that would prefer not to be pigeonholed into a genre.

It’s almost like if you had a band make an hour long album of classical piano music and the composer stopped every 10 minutes to recite some bland sanitized rap lyrics for 30 seconds and everyone decided it was the greatest hip hop record of the decade

  • @[email protected]
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    913 days ago

    I have to upvote this as unpopular because there’s not enough people who even know of Sleep Token to have an opinion.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      413 days ago

      Wtf are you talking about? They sell out huge arenas lol regardless of my own opinion of them they are a massively popular band

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      13 days ago

      Yup. I feel like those who listen to metal forget it really isn’t that popular of a genre, comparatively. According to YT, more people know of Red Letter Media, a group of geriatric, alcoholic hacks, than Sleep Token!

      Now, I listened to a couple of songs and the best way I could describe it, in my ignorance of the group and genre in general, is ‘heavier’ electronic 30 Seconds to Mars with a slower tempo (poppy rave metal, maybe?). I think I also heard a sax outro, which surprised me! It does seem hard to define (and the fact that I kind of enjoyed it probably means OP might be right, lol), but again, I’m more of an acid jazz and romantic ballad kinda guy. 😅

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      613 days ago

      I wouldn’t say people don’t know who they are. They headlined the main stage on Saturday at Download festival this year.

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      413 days ago

      “My band is too cool for you to have heard of them” he says about a band that literally sells out arenas and tops streaming charts