Even in Arcadia by Sleep Token

Even in Arcadia, the fourth studio album from anonymous English band Sleep Token, arrived on RCA Records on 9 May 2025. Carl Bown produced it, and the writing credits run through the masked frontman Vessel, who sings and plays bass, guitar and keys, while II handles drums and percussion. Since forming in London in 2016, they have kept their faces hidden behind masks, robes and black body paint and let the music do the talking.

That music is a slippery beast, lurching between alternative metal, progressive heft and post-metal drift, with big hooks folded in. "Emergence", "Caramel" and "Damocles" paved the way, and "Caramel" became their first top-10 single in the UK. The album itself debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 127,000 first-week sales, powered by a record-setting streaming start for hard rock, and topped the UK chart too. Critics split hard: some hailed the genre-hopping, others found it dull, and several put it on their worst-of-2025 lists.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.