睡眠代币可能是一代人中最大的金属乐队。他们也是最毫无意义的

睡眠代币可能是一代人中最大的金属乐队。自从他们突破2023专辑以来，请带我回到伊甸园

Sleep Token might be the biggest metal band in a generation. Since their breakthrough 2023 album, Take Me Back to Eden, the masked, anonymous UK quartet has rocketed from midsize clubs to headlining major rock festivals. They have twice as many Spotify monthly listeners as Tool, a good enough antecedent for Sleep Token’s melodic and progressive sound. Their fall 2025 arena tour sold out in mere days. On May 9, they released their fourth album and first for RCA, Even in Arcadia, which is projected to land at No. 1 on the Billboard 200—a near-unprecedented feat for a band with metalcore origins.

睡眠代币可能是一代人中最大的金属乐队。自从他们突破2023专辑以来，带我回到伊甸园（Eden），蒙面的匿名英国四重奏从中型俱乐部旋转到头条新闻。他们的每月听众是工具的两倍，这是一个足够好的先决条件，用于睡眠令牌的旋律和渐进式的声音。他们的2025年秋季竞技场之旅在短短几天之内就卖光了。 5月9日，他们发行了第四张专辑和第一张专辑，即使在阿卡迪亚（Arcadia），预计将在Billboard 200上排名第一，这是一个近乎前所未有的壮举，是一支具有Metalcore Origins的乐队。

But Even in Arcadia is a metal album made by musicians who appear petrified of metal’s fundamental pleasures—screams, breakdowns, violence, riffs, exhilaration, exaltation. Instead, Sleep Token’s major-label debut mostly offers sanitized pop-rap with all the sexed-up verve of Droopy the dog. Their bumbling composite of generic pop and trendy metalcore is both schmaltzy and dull: a vacant wasteland where joy, excitement, and intrigue—sensations that all good metal and pop should evoke—go to die.

但是，即使在Arcadia，也是一张由音乐家制作的金属专辑，这些专辑看起来像金属的基本乐趣 - 冰淇淋，崩溃，暴力，即兴，即兴，振奋，振奋，夸大其词。取而代之的是，Sleep代币的主要标签首次亮相主要提供消毒的流行说唱，并带有所有性爱的狗。他们对通用流行音乐和时尚金属核的繁琐的复合既是schmaltzy又是沉闷的：一个空置的荒原，欢乐，兴奋和阴谋 - 所有优质的金属和流行音乐都应该引起人们的态度 - 死亡。

Much of Sleep Token’s confoundingly broad appeal hinges on their shtick. Their singer-songwriter, mononymously known as Vessel, hasn’t given an interview since 2018, refuses to speak onstage, and keeps his face painted black and covered by his mask. The band begins every Instagram caption with “behold,” refers to its singles as “offerings,” and calls live shows “rituals.” To many, this makes Sleep Token a magical enigma. To me, this is dumb as hell.

大部分睡眠代币的令人困惑的吸引力都取决于他们的shtick。自2018年以来，他们的歌手兼词曲作者单词被称为船只，他拒绝在舞台上讲话，并保持他的脸被黑色涂成黑色并被面具覆盖。乐队以“ beold”开始每个Instagram字幕，称其为“产品”，并将现场表演“仪式”称为“仪式”。对许多人来说，这使得smale token成为神奇的谜。对我来说，这很愚蠢。

Previous Sleep Token albums were more firmly grounded in djent, a style of rhythmic metal characterized by polymetric chugs played on down-tuned eight-string guitars. Djent was pioneered at the turn of the century by Swedish extreme-metal scientists Meshuggah, then exploded in popularity worldwide in the early 2010s. Sleep Token aren’t so much innovating the form as they are plundering and prettifying artifacts from djent’s creative peak in 2013. Even in Arcadia’s sporadic metal sections can be traced back to Northlane’s cryptic post-metal djent, Issues’s rap-infused nu-djent, and After the Burial’s brutally groovy prog-djent. The difference is that Sleep Token’s approach is sleeker, softer, and more overtly commercial—an embodiment of the way the once-progressive sub-style has become, well, djentified for mass consumption in the 2020s.

以前的睡眠代币专辑更牢固地扎根于Djent，这种节奏的金属风格是在淡淡的八弦吉他上播放的多粒子。 Djent在本世纪初被瑞典极端金属科学家Meshuggah开创，然后在2010年代初在全球范围内爆炸。 Sleep Token aren't so much innovating the form as they are plundering and prettifying artifacts from djent's creative peak in 2013. Even in Arcadia's sporadic metal sections can be traced back to Northlane's cryptic post-metal djent, Issues's rap-infused nu-djent, and After the Burial's brutally groovy prog-djent.不同之处在于，Sleep Stoken的方法更加时尚，更柔软，更明显，这是对曾经促进的子型的实施例的实施例。

Pick any one of their arena-metal predecessors, and Sleep Token’s output rings hollow by comparison. At least Linkin Park, as irredeemably corny as they became, could translate genuine pathos with undeniable shout-alongs like “Numb” and “In the End.” At least Slipknot’s biggest radio staples retained the band’s tortured disposition. Even Metallica’s most commercial gambits, Load and Reload, had songs that fucking rocked. Sleep Token never let themselves rock on Even in Arcadia. Sex and violence are only ever suggested, never displayed. The metal elements are so superficial, forced, and uninspired that they recall a college student doing volunteer work solely to pad their resume.

相比之下，请选择其任何竞技场金属的前任，并选择“睡眠代币”的输出环空心。至少Linkin Park像他们变得不可估量的情况下一样，可以用“ Numb”和“最终”等不可否认的喊叫声转化真正的悲伤。至少Slipknot的最大广播主食保留了乐队折磨的性格。即使是Metallica最多的商业手枪，负载和重新加载，也有摇摆不定的歌曲。睡眠代币甚至在阿卡迪亚也永远不会让自己摇滚。性和暴力只有建议，从未表现出来。金属元素是如此肤浅，强迫和启发，以至于他们回想起一名大学生从事志愿者工作的工作，只是为了削减履历。