Let’s hop into the time machine, shall we? Set the dial to 2018: Sleep Token are a weird, masked, anonymous cult based in London, whose songs are characterised by the press as ‘Bon Iver meets ...

Every time we write a story about Sleep Token, we get comments and messages saying the same thing: “This band aren’t metal.” And on the one hand… sure. This faceless Eyes Wide Shut sex cult have never ...

The masked and mysterious British band certainly has a flair for the theatrics of heavy metal. And they undoubtedly have songs that are alt-metal or progressive metal, if not nearly djent in their ...

They just headlined Download festival and their latest album went to No 1 in the US and UK – so why is Britain’s biggest metal band in a generation so hated by some? On Saturday, Sleep Token headlined ...

Let's just get this out of the way up top: No, metal isn't dead. If you look around the underground today, there are plenty of thriving pockets: death metal, black metal, doom, thrash, sludge, etc.