Sleep Token - Atlantic (Visualiser) 

I don't why I'm just noticing how fucking awesome he kills it in this song, its like he's singing with drums in that second half.

Facts

It's creative choices as a drummer that I love so much. He really does play it like a 2nd voice in the band. So glad that @anthonyfrontczak9687 thinks so too. II doesn't try to show off or needlessly place drums everywhere, and that restraint is so refreshing. He'll put a complex fill in somewhere just as an accent where it really works then go back to grooving, or laying down voicing with lots of space. I think his greatest strength is that he evolves his grooves with lots of focus on space in the kick so that we can tell it's the same groove even though he's playing it a little differently each time around. It's akin to a singer singing the same notes, but taking breaths in different places and accentuating different words on subsequent phrases to make the overall progression feel melodic instead of like a rigid repetition.

So true, he has a great visual of his surroundings on the the drum kit and has the ability to do very fast fills. I ❤ Sleep Token

Dude. So true.

One of the best album openers to one of the best albums I've ever heard

The best song on an already awesome album. Should've been the last song. Absolutely beautiful.

100% feels like Light of the Seven from Game of Thrones and I love it

Easily. 100%. Hits the fucking bull's-eye with the starting gun.

I like the way you think man

@@Datura.. Thanks! I'm feeling quite blue at the moment

Spiritbox💙🎧🎸

I'm with you on all three of these bands. Any others?

The holy trinity lol

y ask y to someone doing an appreciated duty for the community @@alexandragaydos2324

Thank you love ❤

Mike kaska

That’s one heck of a deep meaning… I got this from Song Tell… The song "Atlantic" by Sleep Token is about the struggle to cope with difficult emotions and traumatic experiences. The narrator is calling for a way out of the emotional pain by seeking solace in the “Atlantic” - the sea - in a literal and symbolic sense. The metaphor of the ocean is used to represent the vastness of a person’s negative emotion and struggles. The narrator wants to be “flooded” by the ocean, hoping to be able to “wash away” their troubles and finally find some peace and solace from the pain and suffering. As the song progresses, it becomes clear that the narrator is asking for the help of the ocean to help them cope, but is ultimately only seeking a momentary respite from the emotional pain and struggles they are enduring. At the end of the song, the narrator pleads not to be woken up as they are in search of a safe haven to escape the darkness and find a moment of peace.

In High Water he refers to "all of these scars on my arms" and the last line is "I can't hold myself together". Also in the Video of Fall for Me the written text says "I want to want to live" then later "I want to understand what it is to let go" and then he procedes to walk completely into the water and the video ends. And let's not forget, the album is titled "This Place Will Become Your Tomb". So I really think you might be right here. It would even give a very significant reason for "Are You Really Ok?" to be on the new album.

damn. That's fucking crazy. The repetition of Don't wake me, don't wake me up is fucking dark as shit

@@vivienschiele Literally what I came to mention. This perspective goes with AYRO quite well.

When they played bloodstock in the uk the was sobbing his eyes out while singing this one.

It is good if you can find people, music anything to reconnect yourself to the real world. It is not all bad but it is in danger and we all have to fight to keep our real world alive. Love you all

I hope you're good mitch

I killed myself last night 😖

I feel the same way in so many ways. I love you Mitchell. Such a reminder this song is as to our loved ones that we take for granted. Take heed and realize the love despite self loathing. I am truly at the point of trying to convince myself of my very words. The struggle is too real.

Checking in Mitch

Keep going friend, no matter what.

GOOD JOB MATE

That's an amazing choice. This old man is proud of you.

Hell yeah ❤ keep going brotha

I am with you, brother the same for me I am only 23 days sober I don’t want to be high anymore stay strong BROTHER FOR ALL OF US 🫡🫡🫡🙏🙏🙏

Best description of Vessel’s abilities I’ve ever read.

That's exactly how it hit me. This song means so much to me in a way even I don't know

This song SLAPS

This. And I don't even know if I fully understand why. It makes me feel small but vulnerable (in a good way).

It’s literally magic, there’s are reason why they call their shows rituals

yes to all of these 5 comments. I saw them live just yesterday and it absolutely crushed me. I could've cried the whole concert through out of poure joy, excitement, sadness, pain and emotional confusion. Sleep Token somehow managed to adress emotions so deeply hidden inside of me that even I had nearly forgotten they existed. I'm not exaggerating when I say that it feels like the most inner part of my soul was being touched. Not just at the concert, also before, but the concert really was a whole new level. I just had a 30 min crying session just to let out all of the emotions I felt yesterday and to experience them, and to just allow myself to be so deeply touched by their music. I think it's the music's and the artists' openness to hurt and to vulnerability and to allowing yourself to feel whatever you're feeling rn. I never experienced something like this, I never experienced music that expresses hurting in such an openly vulnerable and soft way. But at the same time it's also screaming out the pain in some songs, as well as whatever the fuck all the sexy time songs are, which are all amazing. It's the perfect mix to describe the whole experience of love and of every human relationship (besides the sexy time songs). That makes Sleep Token so unique and amazing. But the songs adressing this feeling of hurt in such a beautiful, sad, soft and vulnerable way really fckn broke me. And what also makes Sleep Token so fantastic is that even in songs like Vore, which partially adress this feeling by letting out anger in a loud and agressive way, Vessel manages to put so much emotion in every single word, even if it's not screamed, so you can still hear the hurting in every single line of the song. And that makes it not just fantastic, but so intensely emotional to really actively listen to and fully experience. And that's not just beuatiful, it also seems to affect many of us more than we ever thought that music could which again seems to often times lead to a sort of emotional cleansing, because we never heard our sadness and hurt and vulnerability and whatnot expressed so openly and detailled and emotionally through music and even on stage. That's at least my take, y'all may see that differently of course

Worship

Nailed it in this comment.

Good comment. But I wonder if people say worship just cause others say it. Or do they actually worship 'Sleep', the deity. ( Not Vessel or the band)

​@@PickledGopher it's the former. You have a band with a gimmick, and they gain fans with it, and the result is incredibly pretentious fans that live the gimmick more than the band does lol. I love Sleep Token, recent convert, but my God have they acquired your standard "fanboys" at an astounding pace. Just goes to show how good they truly are haha. If this comes off as mean I'm sorry, having a rough go at life for a while now lol I'm cranky I guess.

@@sentientcardboarddumpster7900 I don't think its mean. I was already thinking along those lines too. Just honest and fair observation. Hang in there. Life gets at me too.

Absolute beast!

they're brilliant. the drums on "gods" from their last album is some of the best drums in heavy music (imo of course)

May that line never die

What about when Stoneside release their next EP?? The Water EP is 🔥 Very Sleep Token-esque

Absolutely an AOTY contender for me too, and it's not an easy year.

I fucking feel this comment and they are helping me through some bad shit right now

I can relate to this comment. Hope that Vessel reads it...

Call your mom an them every now and then, I’m sure that will help.

Why is your comment only about vessel? What about the other members?

@@Drake45100 “Sleep Token” as a whole. But I’m deeply reminded of Bloodsport when I hear Atlantic. I meant with no disrespect.

"earn your bitter father" in first verse

@@Omgr4Gaming nope, "earn your bitter fodder"

Nope it's 'bitter father'. It even makes sense in context to the verse lol

@@Omgr4Gaming It doesn't, "lol". The verse goes "Merry in the morning, earn your bitter fodder" which is in context to what this whole song is about: the bleak and depressing reality and the illusion that we are supposed and trimmed to find happiness in wasting away the majority of our lives just to afford being alive and "happy", affecting us emotionally in a negative way - hence the hinted suicide attempt in the 2nd verse and the overarching theme of drowning. It becomes even more obvious by the follow-up line "It's easier to try not to eat" if you still don't get it. Please give me an explanation of what "Marry in the morning, earn your bitter father" would even mean, because that is certainly not something any native speaker would come up with.

@@alchemist3886 Yeah I think it is lol

I felt those words

Wow, what a comment, and music composition

Goosebumps

Yeah, its farting amazing!

Dont lie, you want it to stay your special thing, quite a conflicting mood.

It's been almost a year now and it's only at 380k views

It’s strange how masses of attention tend to spoil things, it’s natural to want the entirety of civilization to share in things that speak to us so profoundly, but in the end it’s not meant for everyone, especially in a world where poetry and music have become less and less of a united pair, and the appreciation of it far more scarce.

@@extraordinarilybasic3250 its quite unique feeling I agree

Honestly, it isn’t meant for everyone. Most are not hardwired for the cerebral.

LOL my guy you gotta be careful where you spin this one 😆 happened to me at work

I discovered this song today and I had the exact same situation. Literally bawling in the car after a workout, where I would normally feel perky. Such a powerful and distinct emotional tone. Bears so much weight and the lyrics just sank in deep. They made me feel and realized that we are so much more than our mere every-day existence. I hope you are in a better place today than where you were a year ago. We all struggle in our own unique way and it is hard to find ways to distinguish the vortex of emotions that dwell within us.

nice bro

@Robs ahhhh that's why we love music,this band !!

Just read your comment after posting mine, and I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who realized that it kinda sounds like the calling of humpback whales, it is absolutely beautiful, specially because whales are my favorite animals. Also, I kinda get an eerie vibe from this album, specially from this particular song, it reminds me of a certain Eldritch God that may or may not slumber beneath our oceans.

@@axelnova123 yeah we can say that this album is based in the descent into the deep sea,cause the markers in meters in the visualiser (like this one the first 914 meters) also the art cover,and the diferent creatures from the depths of the sea as a artwork from every song in the album,also some effects in songs and some sounds and lyrics,a complete deep sea atmosphere here,reminds me the descent of Jaques Piccard and Don Walsh aboard of the Trieste and when they descended to the deepest point where the human has reached the Challenger Deep the bottom of Mariana's Trench ,10 924 meters as the last song of the album Missing Limbs !!

In case you’re wondering, the songs most likely based on a failed suicide attempt and depression.

Exactly

And now we know that TMBTE closed the trilogy with a callback to TNDNBTG. Perfect writing.

⁠@@JonesyActualthey open with TNDNBTG and closed with Euclid at Red Rocks! 👌🏽

You may already know my now but vessel writes and records everything except drums

Even your comment too

Or a Gears of War trailer..

I legit have been telling this to everyone I know since I heard it.

@@hadair407 Bro you get it. You really get it!

Hmm, they could do a Bond theme yeah. Vessel certainly has the vocals for it. Suggested this to certain ST fans, but that didn't go down well lol

Please become a live show producer if it's something your interested in.

I haven’t thought about being a live show producer but now I’ll look into it! Thank you bro, means a lot. 🙏

I need that bro !

@@NateGMF good luck on your new possible career bro 🙏🏻

@@joshforeman1648 Thanks man! 👍

Same here

Yup me too

Same

I been with them since the start.

Were you at the Kings Cross show as well my dude?

Have you talked to a doctor? Wishing you the best this too shall pass.

Hey, keep going buddy, I've been depressed for a long time and all I can say is that it gets better, don't hesitate to find a support group, sending you love!

Oooh, I bet that one hit like a ton of bricks.

1 year later and i still find myself coming back, honestly i don't think this song will ever leave repeat . Worship

My first time hearing this......sooooo damn good

Yo también los conozco desde 2019😊✌ Saludos desde Buenos Aires

I was there too, it was breathtaking...

Can't quite catch the meaning of parts of the lyrics

Neither

This being sung from the perspective of a whale dying or something? Where do the eldritch like Gods come into play?

I interpreted it as something like waking up after a suicide attempt? Blue light over murder = Ambulance Lights I wake up surrounded, eyes like frozen planets Just orbiting the Vacuum I am The talk me through the damage, consequencd And how it's a pain they know they don't understand = Maybe Family standing around the bedside and their reaction

@@Nimeyene omg that sounds like a good explanation

i was just thinking about this today! the part right before the heavier ending with that transition into the ending itself is so cinematic, and i am in love with it (and the whole song). :)

I was told not to wake you up

@@extraordinarilybasic3250 Hm?

@@infamousinferno2506 it's the song lyrics lol

I ran it on constant repeat for weeks!