Take Me Back to Eden by Sleep Token

Take Me Back to Eden, the third studio album from masked London enigma Sleep Token, arrived on Spinefarm on 19 May 2023, and it's the record that dragged the cult into the mainstream. Carl Bown took over production from George Lever for the first time, with sessions at Treehouse Studios, and the pair at the band's core, singer and multi-instrumentalist Vessel and drummer II, use the fresh ears to go everywhere at once: djent chug, proggy sprawl, alt-metal crunch and hushed, pleading stretches in between.

"The Summoning" is the calling card. Reviews were mixed out of the gate, but the album kept gathering steam, turning up on a string of best-of-2023 lists and ending the year as Spotify's most-streamed metal album. Not bad for a band whose members still won't give their names.

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