When Slipknot hit the heavy metal scene like a nuclear bomb in 1999, armchair detectives across the then-fledgling internet got to work. There had of course been masked bands in metal before, from ...

Sleep Token are one of the most captivating bands in heavy music today, and thus a fan has shared a theory online about why frontman Vessel has six eyes. The band leader sports a white mask with a red ...

Sleep Token's live show gives fans a glimpse of the band's inner workings, as those who've seen it know, thanks to pre-recorded stage banter between Vessel, the group's frontman, and Sleep, the ...

Since emerging in 2016, the English prog-metal outfit Sleep Token have become one of rock’s most enigmatic success stories. Operating in cloaked pseudonymity — their core members are known as Vessel ...

While Sleep Token’s masks are a key part of their identity, their anonymity may be gone soon enough if they keep putting on strong performances as they did Sunday night in Pittsburgh. In a show that ...

When was the last time a band rocketed up the heavy metal ranks as quickly as Sleep Token? In January 2023 – not even four years after their debut album – they became our genre’s biggest breakout ...

It's rare to witness a band change the course of a genre in real time. Yet we’ve watched Sleep Token rise from the shadows to selling out The O2, cracking the US Billboard charts, and dragging metal – ...