Sleep Token’s single Caramel is the perfect track of 2025, based on The New York Occasions.
In a brand new piece put collectively by veteran music critic Jon Caramanica, the UK masked pop-metal outfit are primary on an inventory of the perfect tracks of the previous 12 months.
Caramanica calls Caramel, the second single from this yr’s Even In Arcadia album, “an enormous, gloriously foolish and brutally efficient amalgam of deserted types ripe for reinvigorating – rap metallic, dream-prog, pop-reggaeton, backpack hip-hop, cosplay rock, metalcore and extra”.
Sleep Token are the one metallic band to make the New York Occasions listing, and in topping it they discover themselves above the likes of Drake, Woman Gaga, Sabrina Carpenter and Justin Bieber.
The band put Caramel out on April 4, forward of Even In Arcadia’s launch on Might 9. The one was preceded by a weird promotional marketing campaign that noticed the band drop hints via American weatherman Chris Michaels, who’s been recognized to sneak the titles of metallic songs into his studies.
The New York Occasions recognition rounds out what has been a banner yr for Sleep Token. The week after it got here out, Even In Arcadia reached the highest of the US Billboard 200 album charts. In June, they headlined Obtain competition in Donington for the primary time, topping the invoice in entrance of 80,000 folks alongside Inexperienced Day and Korn. Then, from September to October, the band toured North America on a totally sold-out run of headline exhibits.
Final month, it was introduced that Sleep Token have been nominated for plenty of Grammy Awards. Emergence, Even In Arcadia’s lead single, was put up for Finest Steel Efficiency, and Caramel was nominated for Finest Rock Track. Drummer II may additionally take house a trophy in his personal proper for collaborating in a canopy of Black Sabbath’s Modifications, which was recorded stay at Ozzy Osbourne’s last present Again To The Starting and had Yungblud on vocals.
The Grammy ceremony will happen on February 1 at Crypto.com Area in Los Angeles: the identical venue the place Sleep Token wrapped up their North American tour in October.
Final week, it was introduced that Sleep Token are getting an official colouring e-book. The corporate Rock N’ Roll Colouring helms the venture, having beforehand made colouring books for such rock and metallic heavyweights as Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Motörhead, Skinny Lizzy and Cannibal Corpse. Copies at the moment are available for purchase through Eyesore Merch.
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