Music Teacher Reacts | SLEEP TOKEN - Take Me Back To Eden 

My favourite hobby: Watching ppl get introduced to Sleep Token.. Worship! 🙏🏼

Many layered vocals in production but the band brings 3 more vocalists on tour so they can mimic those layers live. Amazing

The first lines of the album's opening track (Chokehold) are: When we were made, it was no accident We were tangled up like branches in a flood Those lines are repeated in bridge round here. Fun little call back

You and the Charismatic Voice are the only people to pick up on that half step up with the guitar. It gives me chills everytime I hear it

Whilst their entire catalogue is worth checking out, I will say that I've been very intrigued to see music teachers reacting to the song Ascensionism from the latest album. It's such a unique song, so well crafted, so many details, so cleverly conceived and executed. I'm no music student or teacher myself, but that song I feel has great educational value!

As much of a masterpiece as the new album is on its own, you won’t fully grasp the complexity unless you go back and listen to their earlier albums and EPs. I would recommend starting with “The Night Does Not Belong To God” off of the Sundowning album as your next listen. After that you can feel free to skip around the discography, but that is really the starting point of the Trilogy of albums and sets the tone for everything else.

Great reaction. The Sleep Token rabbit hole is deep. 3 albums. Purely anonymous band. Lead singer, known as Vessel is the mastermind behind it all. He and II (2) the drummer. Each song is a token to the deity of sleep. Allowing healing and growth. I would love to see your reaction to either "Chokehold" or "Ascensionism", both from this latest album, Take ME Back To Eden.

Great reaction. I just love seeing people discover Sleep Token.

One thing to discover again on 2nd listen is that the chorus is sung 3 times but it occurs in 3 different “genres” of music within one song. 😉

Good catch, when you mention the vocal layers at 11:03 mark. Your hearing the lyrics from Chockhold. When we were made It was no accident We were tangled up like branches in a flood

The KEY CHANGES! I don't even notice them when I listen (if I'm not looking for it). I wasn't aware until I looked up the music... that impressed the hell out of me. Usually, artists lean into key changes and accentuate them... sleep token f'in slips them in under the radar... what impresses me so much is that they are this big loud glamorous sound... that somehow still maintains subtlety and thoughtfulness. I'm speechless. Just discovered this band about a week ago and my obsession is inhibiting my productivity at work lol

Sleep Token is an incredible journey. If you want something from previous albums, I would say "Alkaline" and "Blood Sport." But if you are looking for something specific to this channel, I personally really love Granite and Aqua Regia. My understanding of the visuals is that it represents different gods/goddess. There is such a huge lore behind this band and the songs play a part of the storytelling. When you dive into their whole discography, and then go back and listen to this album, you hear little call backs. I hope you will be able to find time to sit and listen to this album start to finish because it will take you places. Great video and reaction!

This is definitely my favorite band. People don’t realize how much is actually going on with little things like his tone, using his breathing for effect, inflection changes etc. It’s it always fun to get other peoples perspective on this band. A few have pointed thing out that I miss. I was happy that he caught things like the subtle changes in guitar and drums. I mean not really that subtle when you pay attention but easy to miss. I love how these guys do everything from jazzy to funk to pop then back to metal. Amazing band!!!!

They have a great drummer. Im new to this band and im a musician. Right away One thing i noticed is they have a amazing percussionist .

Hahaha...that "stank face" when it gets heavy! Love it!

Ascensionism!!!!!!

The album is a journey told by the singer about coming to terms with loss and lost love. Really a story told throughout three albums, of which this is the third and final. Many of the lyrics reference earlier work, most explicitly in this track a callback to "Chokehold," which opens the album. Most of their videos are visualizers, so I recommend pulling up lyrics while you listen. The poeticism is high with this band. Enjoy your discovery!

If you're heading down the Sleep Token rabbit hole, I'm here for it. I've been dying to hear from more musicians and vocal coaches about what they're picking up. I think The Summoning or Ascensionism are good options for your next listen. Can't wait to hear more of your thoughts!

Their magnum opus, no question about it. That said, you really need to start with their first LP and work your way up to this newest album. I’d strap in with your favorite psychedelic and some good friends and enjoy the ride 😅

You basically jumped to the second to last song of Sleep Token. I highly suggest you go and start at the very beginning. This song itself has a call back to another song and it hits even better.

The lyrics are everything. The journey to return to Eden, "the glory of innocence". Being forced to trust the entity (either being an angel or demon, and not being sure which, or what defines one from the other) to guide him to his ultimate goal. And finally reaching it, only to realize that it isn't what it seemed; he is now trapped in his own hell of his own making, hence the change from "I will travel far beyond the path of reason", to "I HAVE traveled far beyond the path of reason", and fading out representing him not being able to escape. It's a beautiful story, open to many interpretations. Either The Summoning or Chokehold next before Ascensionism, just to ease you in. This band is stupid creative. No one puts this kind of effort into their music, and I'm all for it. I enjoyed your reaction, thank you for giving me someone to enjoy the song with.

This band is a music nerds wet dream. So much to unpack in each song, such a treat to keep finding new things after a few listens

One of the best reactions out there, I can see how much you love music and it makes it so much more fun for your viewers. Some of the subtleties are multiple callbacks to prior songs/lyrics. Also check out their lore to understand their perspective - this is a very rich story combined with incredible talent. You might also like to search for “an offering from ii” (2, the drummer). Hypnosis is a stand-out for a drummer playthrough. Highly recommend doing a deeper dive into this extremely genre-fluid band. #worship Amazing drum playthrough - Hypnosis (an offering from ii) Blood sport (room below) - piano only and vessel singing. Ascensionism - similar to this song Aqua Regia - jazz inspired Granite - “sexy metal” lol Vore - extremely heavy/screaming with a melodic center It’s hard to pick a bad track.

I love watching other people, especially people that understand musical theory, experiencing Sleep Token for the first time 🖤 The drums are just incredible. The Take Me Back to Eden album is an absolute artistic masterpiece. To fully appreciate it though, you will want to go all the way back & listen to their discography.

worship. Welcome to the rabbit hole. My only advice. Start from the One and Two EPS and work straight through.

Sleep token takes people on an epic musical journey. Vessel 1 and 2 are GENIUSES Especially Vessel with the vocals, guitar, bass and dang keyboard. Just listen to every single last Sleep Token song. Even songs i dont like as much are still brilliant and very few

Id love to see you react to more of Sleep Token there is so much to discover with them !!! There are so many epic songs! Worship! 🖤🖤

It was no accident he put a call back to chokehold in this song

YES. Worship! Editing this after finishing the video. Loved your appreciation for the sheer musical talent. I would recommend Blood Sport (from the room below) to showcase the vocalists ability. Would recommend The Summoning for a more full picture of their sound. I've been obsessed since The Summoning dropped this year, and it's been life changing.

He brings back vocal lines from the first song on the album, Chokehold, in the outtro of the last chorus before the heavy part. But yeah, you hear something new every time you listen, it seems.

That rooster fighter shirt goes way too hard

This is the first reaction I have seen of yours and it was great! Gonna check out more! Sleep Token are the best band I have ever come across and the recent album is definitely my AOTY! You should go down the rabbit hole now. They’re genre bending and use elements of everything from rock, metal, RnB, trap, hip hop, gospel, and more. Even if you don’t like one song don’t write them off as every song is different and as you can see from this one they switch up completely through the songs, also don’t be thrown off by some of them being 7-8 minutes long either as it goes by far too quickly. You should start at the beginning and work your way through as they tell a story and have call backs to a lot of them. The band are anonymous, I and others know who they are but won’t reveal out of respect to the band and fans but the singer goes by the moniker Vessel, drummer, who is a beast is II, bassist III and guitarist IV. From London UK. As far as their discography goes they brought out two EPs called One and Two, then 2 singles called Jaws and The Way That You Were, then the three albums Sundowning, The Place Will Become Your Tomb, then TMBTE (Take Me Back To Eden). They’ve done five covers that I’m aware of. One being Hey Ya by OutKast, I Wanna Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston, Is It Really You? By Loathe and When The Party’s Over by Billie Eilish, Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen. His Vocal range I believe is B ♭2 to F#5 and he has a wonderful chest voice, head voice and scream. I have never hyper fixated on a band like I have with these! Loved the react and Will subscribe and hopefully see many more. 🖤 The trilogy = Seduction. Destruction. Liberation.

Ascensionism would be my pick

The next please The Summoning. This band is something I never hear in my entire life, just I cant stop listening, is a roller-coaster and now I only say Worship🖤

The layered vocals towards the end of the song (before the screaming) are actually parts from the first song on the album, Chokehold. It's super worth it to listen to the album in its entirety.

One thing I love is the 2 half step gain in the base, this happens in last 3rd of the song. Totally rad. Definitely look into the Summing, The Love You Want and everything else they make

Mystery band. Which I appreciate. Recommend Ascensionism. Mix of light, etheral piano and then goes metal with some great guitar work. Oh, I also appreciate being able to understand the lyrics.

Ascensionism is your next track but anything from their discography is fire. The vocalist play all instruments on the album apart from drums. Vessel and vessel 2(drums) and for live stuff 3 on bass and 4 on guitars. The production of this band is off the chain. Btw their anonymous all wear masks. There's a lot of lore to go with it. Take me back is also the title of the latest album which in turn is the last part of a trilogy with sundowing and This place will become your tomb. Loads more to come. Just to let you know, I'm 63. This isn't music for kids.

A very nice reaction, I loved it! I look forward to watching you react to more Sleep Token and hearing your point of view on things. Another very good reaction to Take Me Back to Eden is from oldstonerun, he points out a lot of things, some of which I didn't even notice myself and I've listened to the song now more than 100 times probably. 😅 ( ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ltevO1RbFGY.html ) I feel I'm constantly finding new things each time I listen to their songs. As far as recommendations go, all of it. 😂 Definitely The Apparition, Ascensionism, The Summoning, Hypnosis, The Offering, Atlantic, Higher, Alkaline, Vore... and the list goes on...gosh, so many.😅

A good thing to keep in mind too is the vocalist does all the instruments and composition aside from the drums in the recording process

My favorite sleep token song

I am going down the Sleep Token rabbit hole and I have fallen in love with their sound and that voice vessel has. ❤️

The sound is pretty eclectic, and I think you will enjoy a lot more of it, particularly on the latest album. I highly recommend “The Summoning “

You've gotta start their music journey from the beginning! I agree with listening to The Night Does Not Belong to God next because that really does set the tone for the rest of the albums and then when you listen to Euclid, you will appreciate it 100x more if you've already heard TNDNBTG.🖤 worship

i've been listening to this song ENDLESSLY for three months since the release. i am still finding new things from a music theory perspective and just in general every time I listen to this song. I suggest maybe listening to Chokehold off this album next? Its lyrics are layered in the end of this song. To get the full understanding of the visuals, there is a lot of lore... way too much for a RU-vid comment, haha! I suggest listening to Sundowning and TPWBYT to get a much fuller context of the songs on TMBTE. Those albums are less theatrically fleshed out, but still very enjoyable, beautiful, and important to the whole context of this song.

I know this is 7 months old, but if you need a recommendation for the next song by Sleep Token, do Euclid and be prepared to bawl your eyes out.

Cannot wait to see you react to more SLEEP TOKEN! WORSHIP!!!

Their strength is composition, imo. People can have their own opinion on their aesthetic...anyway, I love this track so much, the emotion is incredible.

I have a feeling you'd like Aqua Regia from the same album. lil bit of jazz influences usually hits the spot for us musicians, for some reason, hehe.

The birds and the tiger growl, plus other animals in the background are to give you the impression of being in the garden of Eden. The figure in the video is holding an apple too. I’ve seen somewhere that the angel depicted is the person who kicked Adam and Eve out of Eden. I don’t know enough about the details in the story myself to say for certain.

Imagine being introduced to Sleep Token by their best song off their best album. Madness 😝

The synth animal calls in the background were awesome. Stunning visuals. Is this considered an official music video, because it looks more like a visualizer to me?

hello, im not sure if you noticed but at the first take me back to eden when the music kicks in, its sounds a bit lite, almost like its hopeful in going back, but then in the second half the music gets a bit heavier, i believe this is the point where he knows he cant go back to the paradise he once had.

Please listen again and listen to the very very intentional way he pronounces things. Not a lot of people put emphasis on the last letter like he does.

Sleep Token is an experience. Worship

Please fo Granite, Aqua Regia and The Summoning

"Welcome to the cult" guy here to say... Welcome to the cult! Worship.

This song/album/discography/band is a master class in genre blending at an epoch level, and I am living for it. By far, ii is my favorite drummer. Worship!

Ascensionism, the summoning, Blood sport. Atlantic :)

please react to ascentionism by sleep token aswell

Aqua Regia, Ascencionism, The Summoning

Please listen to Ascentionism next. Great reaction!!!

Yes! More Sleep Token! Great reaction!

we were tangled up like branches in a flood!

Love your stink face, it earned you a subbie!

Song of the year for me. Maybe even the decade so far.

Can't believe ya missed the key change

You would love The Summoning by them

Please listen to more Sleep Token!!!

Lyrics tied in from prior songs

Where is Ascensionism?

Get ready for the Sleep Token army to show up strong if you keep reacting to this album in particular.

*stankface engaged*

Saw you really enjoyed this one, my personal favorite is "The Summoning" also by SLEEP TOKEN the song has some incredible usage of timing and breaks!!! I'd love to hear your take on it

when you said you're in Abbotsford that got my attention! Fellow British Columbian here. I'm glad you enjoyed Sleep Token, they're easily my favourite band right now. The whole album is worth checking out. Love your analysis too!

Just pick one. Sleep Token doesn't make bad songs. I have my favorites but it's a fact. They're all good.

The vocalist, Vessel, does everything minus the drums. He writes the lyrics, does the vocals, plays all the instruments and produces.

If you go back listen closer to the that heavy outro, I really think you’ll appreciate the work the drummer is putting in. Just goes absolutely crazy

The problem with starting with this song is you miss the context of the story of their entire journey. There's actually a callback to another song on the album within this song. The whole album calls back to their entire discography. I would give anything to go back and hear Sleep Token from the beginning for the first time.

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Towards the end, before it gets heavy, the layered vocals are throwbacks to previous songs. "It was no accident," & "branches in a flood," etc.

This was my reaction the first time hearing this song. I bought their vinyl after hearing the first 4 songs on RU-vid and holy damn was I blown away by this one.

The layered vocals are from their song Chokehold and there's also nods to previous songs as well Sleep Token is masterful at pulling motifs and lyrical connections from their other work and this album is like. In a way? A love letter to the rest of their work up to this point. You're gonna realize quick how cool and clever they are but you won't realize its sheer depth until you give the whole discography a listen

I’m seeing them live next month at blue ridge rock fest. So damn excited!!

Lyrically, he mentions hes about to bite back in anger in the third section before the chorus. He forshadows the brutal ending.

Holy i didn't realise how early i was to the video, great reaction. Of all of the songs on the TMBTE album I think chokehold and vore are the favourites I hope you get around to some of the other songs on the album

Please check out their other songs like Vore, The Summoning, Chokehold and Granite just to name a few. But given that Sleep Token are so diverse in their compositions it really is worth diving deep in their rabbit hole and really enjoying digging deep in their talent and and musicianship.

Ascensionism is my favourite song from the new album. Unbelievable.

The summoning for sure and ascensionism are good for reacting to.. they give you are good idea of where other songs may take you. I think some folks get some of their songs out of context sometimes. Vessels voice just fits into every genre and he exploits it so well.. he makes music artistic again

THE best band to come out since Jinjer. This is by far the best album I've heard in I don't know how long. EVERY song is fire. In fact, I have everything they have done and their catalog is just insanely great.

Song speaks for itself, no human words needed other than Vessel’s.

Dang it! I thought you weren't going to hear the birds and I wouldn't be the only one! 😢

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No return to sleep token?

A lot of stuff that's missed in an homage to the other songs in the album

Where did you get that shirt though? I want one.

You are so legit my good man...loved how you didn't pause constantly and inundate us with personal anecdotes or blather...seriously enjoyed how you took time to soak in parts of the song and loved your comments on everything...fresh subscriber right here SOOOO looking forward to more thank yoy