You recognize you have really made it whenever you’ve lastly obtained your personal tribute band. A few of them are literally fairly rattling respectable, too – Popestars (Ghost), The Black Charade (My Chemical Romance) and Korn Once more (Korn…clearly) are simply a number of the cowl bands this author has seen pay exceptionally spot-on homage to rock icons in recent times, and at way more affordable costs than your common area gig.
Now, Sleep Token – unquestionably the most important factor to hit steel in many years – have formally joined the enviable pantheon of rock heavyweights with their very own tribute bands. Enter: Sleep Damaged, who’ve been taking part in to packed rooms of tons of of individuals across the UK in latest weeks, together with a present at MK11 in Milton Keynes over the weekend that we simply occurred to have some eyes in.
Check out some footage from the present under. You’d need to think about that Vessel and the lads would approve.
It has been an enormous yr for Sleep Token, who launched newest album Even In Arcadia in Might to very large chart success and constructive evaluations and performed their largest present ever by headlining Obtain for the primary time.
Protecting the present for Steel Hammer, Wealthy Hobson wrote of Sleep Token’s historic headline set in a four-star evaluate: “Even in opposition to Inexperienced Day, whose Donington debut feels lengthy overdue and Korn, who’ve their very own illustrious previous on the competition, Sleep Token headlining Obtain Pageant 2025 feels really momentous, a legendary occasion within the making. And their story remains to be not completed. Primary album, bought out excursions, they’re the steel sensation of the last decade, if not century, and this set attracts a line within the sand for doubters. Prefer it or not, they’re high of the world proper now.”
