Sleep Token’s ‘Even In Arcadia’: A Deep Dive Into Their Most Ambitious Work Yet
Sleep Token's fourth album "Even In Arcadia" marks their RCA Records debut with 10 tracks blending R&B, hip hop, alt-pop, and metal.
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Early review of Sleep Token’s “Even In Arcadia”
Sleep Token’s Boldest Move Yet Sleep Token is back with Even In Arcadia, and let me tell you, this one is going to divide the fanbase. If you’re expecting another...
New Release: Architects - The Sky, The Earth, and All Between
Today, Architects have finally released their much anticipated new album “The Sky, The Earth, and All Between”. This is the first album from the band since 2022’s “the classic symptoms of a broken spirit” and features previously released singles “Seeing Red”, “Curse”, “Whiplash”, and “Blackhole”.
The Latest Mystery from Sleep Token (Updated 2/27)
Sleep Token's got this wild promo thing going on right now that looks like they're hinting at new music. A few days ago, they posted their first-ever TikTok with this mysterious puzzle that sent fans to a website called "showmehowtodanceforever.com".
Deep Dive Into Sleep Token’s “Sundowning” Album
Recently one of my favorite YouTubers, Steve O’G, did a deep dive relisten of Sleep Token’s 2019 debut full length album “Sundowning”.
Sleep Token Are Teasing Fans With A New Cryptic Website
Yesterday, February 18, 2025, Sleep Token launched their official TikTok account and used their first post to direct fans to a website: https://showmehowtodanceforever.com.
Lauren Babic announces new EP!
Metalcore vocalist and band collector Lauren Babic just announced her new solo EP “Too Much & Never Enough”, which will release on March 28th!
Spiritbox to Premiere New Song “No Loss, No Love”
Tonight, February 6 at 9pm EST, Spiritbox will premiere the video for their new song “No Loss, No Love” from their upcoming album “Tsunami Sea”, to be released on March 7 via Pale Chord Records.
2025 Grammy Awards Commentary
I didn’t actually watch the Grammys, as I don’t listen to or care for most of the music that’s being awarded, but I did follow up with it on social media and on music blogs. One thing I noticed is that the mainstream music industry press still doesn’t give two shits about metal.
Bands About to Blow Up In 2025
I can’t see the future, but I can definitely see that these bands are getting a lot of buzz in the alt-rock and metalcore scenes. If you want to get on board before everyone else, check out these bands now before they blow up this year! You can thank me later. 😉
Music Questions Challenge (Repost)
Flamed Fury tagged me in the new Music Questions Challenge, which I responded to via my personal blog, Cool As Heck. Since it’s music related, I’m reposting it here as well! Questions and answers below!
January 2025 Listening History
The beginning of January was a little slow for me, musically speaking, but in the last couple of weeks I started listening to a few new bands and songs. Here's my January in review.
My Favorite Concert Memories
I received a mention from Jeffrey over at Static Made with a prompt to talk about a favorite concert memory. Since my memory is terrible enough that I don’t have enough details to fill a blog post about one single story, I thought I would put together the bits and pieces of memories I do have from the hundreds of concerts I went to in my late-teens and early-twenties.
15 Songs On Repeat
This is a playlist of songs I’m currently listening to frequently, including bands like Grinn, Designer Disguise, Holywatr, and more…
Mini Review: House of Protection - GALORE EP
House of Protection is a new band formed by singer and guitarist Stephen Harrison (former guitarist of Fever 333) and drummer Aric Improta, who has worked with Night Verses and The Chariot.
Skylimit Releases New Self-Titled EP
This week, metalcore band Skylimit (Lauren Babic’s side-project of her other side-project of her solo career) released a new self-titled EP featuring 5 new tracks. The album doesn’t stray far...
Sleep Token Songs You Might Like If You Don’t Listen To Metal
Sleep Token often gets classified as metal (much to the chagrin of metal purists), but fans know that the band has more to offer. Their catalog is full of genre-spanning material that offers a little something for everyone. Here are some Sleep Token songs I think you will like, even if you don’t listen to metal.
Album Openers
Today’s fun Mastodon hashtag of the day is #ThursdayFiveList and the theme is album openers (first tracks on an album). These are songs that kick off an album in a great way and pull you in for the rest of the experience. This was my contribution for today.
Metalcore in 2025
I wouldn’t really call this a “predictions” post, but these are some of the artists and albums I’m looking forward to hearing in 2025.
My Most Scrobbled Artists - Dec 8-14
Here are my most scrobbled artists for last week, December 8-14. Sleep Token and Bilmuri are still at the top. I listened to Jimmy Eat World's “Phoenix Sessions: Clarity” on vinyl. I also played some of Linkin Park’s “Hybrid Theory” and Saosin’s “Translating the Name”.
Surprise Album Find: As Everything Unfolds - Ultraviolet
Somehow I missed this album when it came out in 2023, but I just came across it this week and it is fantastic!
It’s a Good Time to be Sleep Token
Yesterday, Sleep Token won the Billboard Top Hard Rock Album award for ‘Take Me Back To Eden’.
Music Drop - Dec 12, 2024
Today’s music drop has some pretty diverse songs across the pop, rock, and metalcore genres. Most everything here is at least a few months old except the Novelists song which dropped yesterday! Enjoy, and let me know what you think by hitting me up on Mastodon!
Jimmy Eat World - The Phoenix Sessions
Yesterday I got a surprise package. Not really a surprise since I ordered it for myself, but it was so long ago that I had forgotten about it. So I was very surprised and happy to open it up and see that it was the vinyl record set that Jimmy Eat World released from their 2021 height-of-the-pandemic, live-in-studio performance called The Phoenix Sessions.
New Release Friday 12-06-2024
These are some hand-picked albums, EPs, and tracks that released today, December 6, 2024!