Sleep Token Tease New Material With Cryptic Message

Nearly two years on from the release of Take Me Back To Eden, Sleep Token return with a cryptic message, likely teasing new music before their Download headline in June.

Sleep Token have teased new material with a cryptic message, which appears to reference the Shugborough inscription and the Holy Grail.

Nearly two years on from the release of Take Me Back To Eden, Sleep Token have returned with a cryptic message, likely teasing new music before their Download headline in June.

The band have launched an ARG of sorts, with a new website (https://showmehowtodanceforever.com/) featuring the a series of letters, scrambled randomly. Putting them into the correct order (D O U O S V A V V M) brings up a textbox for one to input their email, which subsequently sorts the user into one of two ‘houses:’ Arcadia (‘Feathered Hosts’) and Veridian, with the heading, “Behold, A Divide.”

D O U O S V A V V M is a sequence of letters, known as the Shugborough inscription, from the eighteenth-century Shugborough Monument in Staffordshire, an uncracked ciphertext which was speculated to be connected to the Holy Grail – mentioned on the group’s song “Ascensionism”.

Further, the source code for the website reveals coordinates for the Shugborough (52°48’05.0″N 2°00’45.0″W), as well as ASCII art of the monument itself. The monument features the word Arcadia (Et in arcadia ego), which was the pre-sale code for the band’s most recent UK tour, and Veridian was also previously used as the pre-sale code for the show supporting Linkin Park.

It remains unclear exactly what the British quartet have in the chamber, but an exciting 2025 is certainly ahead of us.