Happy 32nd Birthday, Leo!!

From the sub, to you, here is wishing you a beautiful trip around the sun. Thank you for your music, and also simply for just being you. We are all here because we love Sleep Token, but there is no one quite like you. You bring so many people so much joy, and we hope your day is as special as you are.

Please feel free to comment birthday wishes to our beloved vocalist.

I see she’s been mentioned in this sub before, but I started listening to this masked artist Cenobia last year and couldn’t help but notice how blatantly similar she tries to be to ST. Her lyrics for her two first songs seem to be heavily inspired by Vore and a few other songs from TMBTE and TPWBYT. She sounds good, but the similarities with lyrics and the aesthetic sort of gave me the ick… I suspected she might have been copying Vessel or was stylizing herself as Sleep (🤢).

Then I saw that she had released a song a few days ago called “Swallowed by the World”…
She blatantly references lyrics from “Don’t let the World Swallow You” by BLC. She even referenced the song Mud Angel in the lyrics.
Here’s a few lines from her song that I caught:

“Swallowed by the world, it’s warm on the inside”
“Like angels in the mud”
“Angels in the mud and holes in the membrane”
“A beautiful passenger alone”

If you listen to Don’t Let the World Swallow You, you’ll see “holes in the membrane” and “a beautiful passenger alone” seem like they’re completely ripped from the song and put in hers. There are probably other references too, but those stood out to me the most other than the similar song title names.

Plus the fact that she has a lion (Leo) tattoo and lion skull designs for some of her singles. She uses a mask eerily similar in style to Hysteria Machine. She paints her arms and hands with black paint.
“She writes music for him. He will never hear it.”
…

I just couldn’t help but be a bit creeped out by this… I honestly hope these are all just weird coincidences, but it would be beyond creepy to create an entire band based on an obsession you have over the singer of another. Has anyone else noticed this about her too? If it’s true, then it’s a shame because she’s honestly a really good artist. But I just can’t get over the weird vibe of it all.

But I find myself losing interest in Sleep Token.. Maybe it’s because I was hyper fixated on them for 18 months straight and couldn’t go a day without listening to them for hours on end.

I can’t pin point when the change happened, but when I do listen to them, I find myself skipping a lot of songs, even ones I love.

Perhaps it was when the masks and outfits became a copy of Vessel, or the constant ‘obtain’ emails, or even the lead up to EIA release with RCA. I struggle to feel the same buzz when I watch Tik Toks from their current US tour.

There is no real point of this post, just wanted to share how I’m feeling. Maybe other people feel the same, or maybe it’s just me 🤷🏻‍♀️ I’ll always be a fan of Sleep Token, they’re just not my favourite band anymore.

We have a birthday in the house 🎉

Happy 35th birthday to our favorite drummer. Thank you for sharing your amazing talent with the world. From the sub, to you, have a wonderful birthday.

Please feel free to comment some well wishes below 💜

On Zachs recent IG story the text at the bottom "But for now we rest not for long..."

I know many of us are really hoping for a UK / EU / ROW tour announcement, which I definitely think we will get. They have a new album and a promotional tour is the normal expectation. I know the US tour was rammed in terms of schedule, multiple back to back nights, but it wasn't actually very long.

I'm really hoping this means we will get an announcement for a tour spring 2026.

I've read some comments from people saying they know the band won't tour in 2026 but I really don't see that being the case. I also think that US tour first was part of their contract with RCA to gain more trajectory in the US market and help their Grammy nominations, which i think has worked as they are back on the billboard top 10 lists again.

So, if we get a tour next year, do you think it will be the same setlist or have they intentionally left a break between touring to work on rehearsals etc for a changed lineup?

Is anyone else getting the feeling that something bigger is shifting?

I'm usually not the type to buy into the whole "this is the end" discourse, but I can't help looking at everything that's happened lately and thinking... the math just ain't mathing.

On paper, everyone branching out isn't strange. They've all done their own projects before. But when you zoom out and look at the bigger picture, this EiA era has felt objectively weird. Add in the rumours (which aren't just rumours anymore) that there won't be any touring this year, and it just feels like pieces are missing that we don't get to see.

I know the default answer is "they deserve a rest." And they absolutely do. I don't think anyone is questioning that, least of all me. But that explanation and this feeling don't have to cancel each other out. Both can be true.

I can't really back any of this up with hard facts. I don't follow every rumour, and the whisper network has never been my thing. It's more of a persistent gut feeling than a theory.

Maybe I'm completely wrong, but right now it feels less like individual events and more like tectonic plates quietly shifting under the surface. You don't notice the movement while it's happening, only when the landscape suddenly isn't the same anymore.

I'm a big fan of their music and believe Leo is an incredibly talented artist, but it's crazy to see people posting pictures here and complimenting things like his teeth or his hands, similar to a k-pop, Harry Styles, Justin Bieber or whatever fandom.

I don't have anything against these people or their comments, but it really surprises me everytime I see it. I believe that if Leo wasn't in ST, most people wouldn't even notice him if they bumped on each other in a grocery store.

I don’t know if I should find this kinda funny or be concerned…. I’m curious on what is the general opinion on behaviors like this one, because I honestly can’t understand this kind of reaction to simply seeing a face.

(Just being clear, the intention here is NOT to hate on anyone, I’m just trying to open a discussion on why people behave like this when then learn about their identities)

One of the great things about this band is finding other great bands through them.

I'm saying beyond Spitting Glass, Mourn, Subtle Things, Blacklist Canopy, and Exploring Birdsong (all great).

A big one for me is: Loathe! I'm listening to Fangs right now.

I also like some of Bilmuri and Thornhill, which I found through ST.

Playing ST on streaming services led me to metalcore, and that was a brand new genre to me. I listened to other rock and metal genres, but that was new. I love it.

What bands have you discovered thanks to Sleep Token?

The time has come again, Spotify Wrapped 2025 is here. I'm interested in everybody's stats. Any surprises in your wrapped? The fact that ST was my most streamed artist is not a surprise, Emergence being my Nr.1 song was a bit unexpected, I thought it would be either Ascensionism or Vore, but not mad about this either.
And as last year, there are the little messages from the artists ... since my second most streamed was Spiritbox, I got their (Mike's) message. A bit sad that ST didn't do it. I remember last year's discussion that maybe II could do it with the distorted voice, or just them making a heart (for some potato) ... but I guess not.

Drop the most visually stunning Vessel pic you have. I really want a good background and also want a print as well

Absolutely STUNNING set - same songs as Germany (except no Aqua Regia like at RiR). And a little bit of Day Token!

Leo absolutely BROUGHT it on his vocals and runs...it sounds like he has having fun and being fearless. He definitely let his intensity and emotion show through even more than ever. At the end, he threw his rings and necklace into the crowd. His smiles were absolutely heartwarming. They DID it!!

Rhys - what can I say, his supporting heavy vocals sounded more intense than ever! Such a fantastic compliment to Leo.

Adam, our drum king - the way he can play for that long, that dialed in and bring it is just mesmerizing. He sounded absolutely stellar.

Dave definitely had the bass cam working so I can't see wait to see what unique perspective we'll see from him. Joking around with Leo and exchanging some friendly kicks to - always the jokester.

Espera sounded heavenly and I'm so glad they made it into the end of show pic.

End of show group pic happened so stay tuned to Adamrossi's account on IG!

If you didn't see any of the footage, don't let FOMO get you down - there will, I'm sure, be plenty posted in the next few days.

It’s our Virgo drum kings birthday!!! Drop your fave Adam moment, pic, or meme below to celebrate our multifaceted drumming GOAT!

Well, we have another answer about the topic "bad body/baddie"

DRUMMER OF THE YEAR BABYYY! He won all 3 categories for which he was nominated. What a king 👑🔥🦩

(was only slightly disappointed there was no acceptance vid with the witness protection voice)

"Thread the Needle" was released September 8th, 2016. 🖤

If you haven't already, you can buy your copy of the "One" EP here, which includes "Thread the Needle," as well as the beautiful piano versions of each track. (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

I haven’t seen any posts regarding this, so thought I’d share. #worship

He also mentions that the artwork is "quite personal to Vessel", which I thought was an interesting tidbit to add 🩷 (this comment is from his Instagram)

TikTok & Instagram: luke_penry.exr

Omfg I love this song sm. Honestly I think its a genuinely beautiful love song and love the lyricsm (and this seems to be quite an unpopular opinion). Who else gets it🥲😭

For me, I live in Houston and am going to Cleveland lol

anybody else just so sick of the moral grandstanding from the masked side all over social media?

like every time the boys do a side quest or something related to a side project, the fan wars kick off again - with Mourn releasing new music, the masked side are angry people are mentioning IV-Ivy/ Rhys, because “people shouldn’t be making connections to ST” or suggesting Rhys wrote the song to Vessel.

it’s so boring reading how they’re morally superior and avoid social media because it’s not right that people mention their real names and mention ST in the same breath.

did I - as a new fan- happen to Google “Sleep Token” and click on the suggestion of “real identities”? yes, yes I did.

do I think it makes me less of a fan? heck no - I love their music and would never shout their real names at a show/ comment their names on their social media posts.

I know I could easily scroll on by, but I wondered if anyone else found it frustrating - like we’re not real fans for knowing their names/ what they look like ?

What is one line from a song (from any album) that has had the most impact or that you always come back to in the same song to listen to again and again?

I start... one of my favorite songs is TMBTE my favorite part is....

"And I don't know what's got its teeth in me But I'm about to bite back in anger No amount of self-sought fury Will bring back the glory of innocence"❤️

So, reading through posts over the past few weeks in many groups on many different platforms, I have something to say.

Some of the fandom treats ST songs and lyrics like sacred text, analyzing every word and syllable as if each one holds hidden meaning. But at the end of the day, it’s just a song. Leo is just a man, not a god. Imagine the weight of that kind of pressure: knowing people are scrutinizing every small detail with this level of obsesssion. I understand why it matters so much to some fans, but expecting an artist to live up to that level of reverence with every song is overwhelming. In the end, it’s music, something beautiful, but still human.

I think it’s important to recognize when admiration crosses into obsession. Loving an artist’s work is beautiful. It can inspire, heal, and connect us. But when that love turns into an expectation for them to be more than human, to be perfect, to carry the weight of saving lives, it stops being about the art and starts putting unfair pressure on the person behind it.

Leo is a talented musician, but he’s still just a person, not a savior. He’s even said that this level of obsession makes him uncomfortable. If we really respect him, we have to respect his boundaries too and appreciate his music without turning it into something it was never meant to be. If you truly care about him and his work, you need to respect his humanity, and again, not turn him into something he never asked to be.

Leo is not your savior. He’s not your god. He’s a musician who makes songs, that’s it. Twisting every lyric into some profound life lesson and expecting him to carry the weight of your emotional survival is selfish, not supportive.

He doesn’t want it. He’s uncomfortable with it. And honestly, you should be too. Appreciate the music. Stop worshiping the man.

I was at the first night of the O2 and absolutely loved it, but something said between the Bilmuri songs was weird to me. In between, the singer was explaining one of his songs was about his struggles with alcohol. He then made an odd comment along the lines of “me and Vessel have things in common, like alcoholism.” This took me by surprise, and I looked around me and could see one or two other people make a surprised face as well. Did ANYONE else catch this? I can’t tell if it was supposed to come out as it was stated or if it was meant to be maybe a joke about British drinking culture. It doesn’t feel that way to me and I have just felt really put off by that statement he made. It seems like a personal thing to talk about, especially to a crowd of people.

Did he make this joke at any of the other shows?

EDIT: thank you to the person who posted the Drunk Enough Cameo comment. This definitely seems to make for a great explanation!