Sleep Token Deliver the Intensely Anticipated New Album 'Even in Arcadia'

Sleep Token fans, it's finally here: Vessel and Co.'s intensely anticipated new full-length offering, Even in Arcadia, is ready to for you to absorb

Sleep Token fans, it's finally here: Vessel and Co.’s intensely anticipated new full-length offering, Even in Arcadia, is ready to for you to absorb, digest and worship.

As previously reported, Sleep Token teased the Arcadia era earlier this year through a mysterious website before they unveiled the six-and-a-half minute “Emergence,” a mind-bending epic that crested from soft piano balladry towards Vessel rapping his heart out then onto a deep-djenting mid-section and finally capping with a sensual sax solo.

Next came the revelatory “Caramel,” which found Vessel — or is it the man behind the mask? — artfully alluding to the “beautiful nightmare” of fame (“I guess that’s what I get for trying to hide in the limelight”), followed by “Damocles,” a heartbreaker seemingly addressing various criticisms lobbed at him and his Sleep Token cohorts by fans and critics alike (“I know I should be touring/I know these chords are boring/But I can’t always be killing the game”).

Like those two singles, the rest of the album frequently breaks the fourth wall as Sleep Token's leader wrestles with his band's newfound stardom and ponders what it means for both his art and his soul. It all culminates in the one-two punch of the six-and-a-half-minute "Gethsemane" and the eight-and-a-half-minute "Infinite Baths," both of which start delicate and introspective before imploding in metallic heaviness. "I was your robot companion," Vessel sings on the former, but his voice and his words actually sound more human than ever throughout.

Even in Arcadia is out now via RCA Records. The album is on all major digital music platforms, while you can also order physical vinyl and CD copies in Revolver's shop.