Sleep Token Play First Show of 2025 Tour

Final evening (June 7), Sleep Token kicked off their 2025 “June Competition Rituals” tour in help of their not too long ago launched fourth studio LP, Even in Arcadia. Within the course of – and alongside quite a few basic tracks – 4 songs from the album made their stay debuts, leading to an outstanding present for all in attendance.

What Sleep Token Performed

Per setlist.fm, Sleep Token’s heading efficiency on the Rock im Park pageant in Nuremberg, Germany included over a dozen songs, with arguably essentially the most thrilling inclusions being the 4 never-before-played cuts from Even in Arcadia. Particularly, and maybe unsurprisingly, the mysterious ensemble started by debuting album opener “Look to Windward,” they usually ultimately pulled out singles “Emergence,” “Caramel” and “Damocles” as properly. (Apparently, they performed the singles in launch order, too.) As such, there are actually solely a handful of tunes they’ve but to deliver to the stage.

Past that, the group ran via at the least a few songs from every of their prior three LPs. As an example, each “The Providing” and “Increased” from 2019’s Sundowning acquired the highlight, as did “Hypnosis” and “The Love You Need” (from 2021’s This Place Will Turn into Your Tomb) and “The Summoning,” “Granite” and “Take Me Again to Eden” (from 2023’s Take Me Again to Eden).

Alongside the way in which, they cut up up the set with two interludes, and the venue performed Elton John’s “Tiny Dancer” after Sleep Token completed their efficiency.

Of their evaluation of the present, Revolver reward Sleep Token for offering concertgoers with “an era-spanning set stuffed with fan-favorite choices” that “showcased Sleep Token’s compelling whirl of alt rock, djent, pop, electronica and extra.” They point out that the evening “discovered the band unveiling beautiful new cranium masks and an elaborate new stage manufacturing full with a waterfall,” too.

Likewise, Kerrang! be aware that Sleep Token are “levelling up” with “an even bigger, brighter, [and] bolder model” of their trademark stay method.  They proceed:

There isn’t a second the place you aren’t being dazzled, the place [Sleep Token] aren’t commanding your consideration. . . . This isn’t just some extra bits added for a barely larger venue, this can be a band recalibrating realizing what they’re now, not operating to maintain up with themselves, however discovering themselves and having the ability to deliver their largest ambitions to life.

You’ll be able to view Sleep Token’s total setlist – and see pictures and movies – under. Additionally, you may see Sleep Token’s upcoming tour dates (and buy tickets) right here.

READ MORE: Doc Coyle Calls Out ‘Pretentious Gatekeeping’ Surrounding Sleep Token

Sleep Token’s Rock im Park 2025 Setlist (June 7, 2025)

01. “Look to Windward” (Reside debut)
02. “The Providing”
03. “Vore”
04. “Emergence” (Reside debut)
05. “Alkaline”
06. “Hypnosis”
07. “Aqua Regia”
08. “Rain” (Prolonged keyboard intro)
09. “Caramel” (Reside debut)
10. “The Summoning”
11. “Granite”
12. “The Love You Need”
13. “Increased”
14. “Damocles” (Reside debut)
15. “Thread the Needle”
16. “Take Me Again to Eden”

by way of setlist.fm

Sleep Token – “Intro” + “Look to Windward” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Emergence” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “The Providing” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Damocles” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Take Me Again to Eden” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Caramel” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Thread the Needle” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “The Love You Need” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Alkaline” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “Hypnosis” (June 7, 2025)

Sleep Token – “The Summoning” (June 7, 2025)

Different Sleep Token Information

If you happen to’re studying this, you’re virtually actually conscious of how divisive Sleep Token are (concerning whether or not they qualify as a metallic band, amongst different issues). Just lately, ex-Unhealthy Wolves guitarist (and present Snot member) Doc Coyle got here to their protection by decrying the “pretentious gatekeeping” that surrounds Sleep Token.

Particularly, Coyle wrote an op-ed piece for Steel Hammer during which he acknowledged the “harsh and swift” backlash Sleep Token have acquired (from each informal metallic listeners {and professional} critics) in response to Even in Arcadia’s business victories. “Sleep Token’s crime isn’t their creative decisions; it is the audacity to turn out to be the preferred rock act on earth with these decisions,” Coyle claimed.

He added:

I concern that we have turn out to be a society incentivized to not take pleasure in blatantly pleasant issues. . . . I very a lot take pleasure in Even in Arcadia. It is best songs do not hit the peaks of ‘The Summoning’ and ‘Chokehold’ from Take Me Again to Eden, however I discover it a extra satisfying pay attention top-to-bottom . . . . I don’t begrudge anybody who dislikes the album or the band. What bothers me is the coalitions of lynch mobs in opposition to in style heavy bands as a pattern. It’s knee-jerk contrarianism to dislike what the lots like. I don’t assume that’s cool.

I simply don’t know why now we have to maintain repeating the identical patterns of tearing down our profitable acts. That is “why we are able to’t have good issues” in apply. Hating bands as traits isn’t cool as a result of attempting to be cool isn’t cool. It’s one other type of conformity, elitism. I imagine really being a fan is being a nerd. It’s passionate, obsessive and unabashedly earnest. Sadly, we stay in a time the place earnestness is considered as cringe. . . . It’s simply music. Simply because you could have a proper to be an asshole about these items, doesn’t imply it’s a must to be. Be an outsider. Be a nerd. And it is okay to typically be a fundamental bitch that likes issues that make you are feeling good.

On the opposite finish of the spectrum, Latin soul singer Kali Uchis acquired backlash for social media posts during which she erroneously claimed that Sleep Token use “blackface” and did immoral issues to get Even in Arcadia to No. 1.

Particularly, and as Loudwire beforehand reported, Uchis insinuated on social media that Sleep Token cheated to get such excessive gross sales. One particular person commented on her now-deleted submit, “Think about being so petty that you simply censor the #1 band on an IG story. Sleep Token is best,” to which Uchis replied: “To be trustworthy, I do not really feel snug posting of photograph of somebody in blackface. It actually wasn’t deeper than that, doll.”

You’ll be able to see screenshots of these exchanges right here.