[DID NOT ATTEND: September 9, 2023] Sleep Token / A.A. Williams
I had never heard of Sleep Token until about a week ago when Shevy Marie, the woman who plays all of the women in Ice Nine Kills’ live performances, announced that she would be touring with Sleep Token. I have no idea in what capacity. Ad when I looked up to see where the tour was taking this band, I found out that they were playing Union Transfer and the show was sold out. In fact, the whole tour appears to be sold out. Wow.
So, who are they? Interestingly, no one know.
Sleep Token are a British alternative metal band from London, formed in 2016. The group are an anonymous, masked collective led by a frontman using the moniker Vessel. They have been categorised under many different genres, including alternative metal, post-rock/metal, progressive metal and indie rock/pop.
There’s obviously so much for me to like about this band–masked singers, calling their shows “rituals”, toying with heavy metal, Shevy Marie. Although when I listened to a few songs I didn;t really like them all that much.
Well, it being sold out saved me the worry.
A.A. Williams is a singer from
The first thing that comes up when searching for her is a cover of Placebo’s “Without You I’m Nothing” which is even more gothy than the original. It’s good and moody. Her other stuff is similarly moody and gauzey with a healthy dose of goth. Or as Kerrang says
a stunning work of minor-chord perfection that announced its author as a genuinely exceptional talent. A perfect expression of beautiful melancholy that touched that same delicate, isolated, rainy-night nerve as Anathema, Nick Cave and Deftones at their most understated,
I’ll bet this show is really good.
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