Sleep Token have a new label home. The masked U.K. band have formally signed to RCA Records, making them labelmates with Doja Cat, Britney Spears, A$AP Rocky and many other mainstream heavyweights.
Up until this point, all three of Sleep Token’s albums — 2019’s Sundowning, 2021’s This Place Will Become Your Tomb and 2023’s Take Me Back to Eden — have been released via Spinefarm Records, a metal and rock label which is notably home to Bullet for My Valentine, Ville Vallo, Dayseeker, Creeper and more.
Sleep Token’s signing to a major label like RCA makes sense. After their arena-conquering 2023, Vessel and Co. are genuinely one of the biggest metal acts in the world right now, and there’s no sign of their popularity waning anytime soon.
As of now, the band aren’t teasing any new music, but that will surely come in due time. See the band’s Instagram story announcement post below, which contains the phrase “welcome to the new era.”
LOATHE’S KADEEM FRANCE HAILS SLEEP TOKEN, TALKS “IS IT REALLY YOU?” COLLAB
Loathe and Sleep Token’s came up together in the U.K. alt-metal underground, but Loathe singer Kadeem France speaks of his peer band as if they’re his musical heroes.
“Their singer is unbelievable. His vocals are just unreal,” he gushes. “Anytime I go to see them live I’m like, ‘What am I doing with my life?’”
While many musicians might radiate jealousy to see their contemporaries soar to such heights, France has nothing but positive things to say about Sleep Token, who were opening for Loathe shows just a few years back.
“I love how dedicated to their art they are,” France says. “In terms of the visual aspect of it, how they dress, how it’s so mysterious. They’ve somehow kept their identity under wraps throughout this whole thing, and I really, really admire that… Them stripping [their individual personalities] away just makes it a lot more about the music. The music kind of speaks for itself.”
Notably, the two bands also linked arms when Sleep Token released a moody, piano-based reinvention of Loathe’s shoegaze-y epic “Is It Really You?” from their 2020 album, I Let It in and It Took Everything. France and his bandmates were honored to hear Vessel’s stripped-back take on their song.
