The lore is as complex as the lyricism and instrumentation. In a nutshell, Sleep is a deity that appeared to Vessel in a dream, which begins this relationship that’s as tumultuous as it is euphoric at times. The band are all “vessels” that unite in the worship of Sleep. A token is a payment or offering, so the name implies that the band itself exists as an offering to Sleep. Along with this story of Sleep, you’ll find references and hints of other religions and mythology. Lots of references to the book of Genesis in this album, but there are bits of pieces of the stories of other gods and goddesses throughout. What’s crazy is that these references can be literal and metaphorical. Lyrics are written to be specific enough to advance this story of Sleep that seems to borrow from a lot of sources, yet he leaves them vague enough to be relatable for the listener. That’s an insanely difficult thing to do yet it comes off as effortless. Vessel is a prodigy. Total prodigy.

As a hardcore metal fan, most metal scream you can hear anger but this song, you can clearly hear pain and almost begging like? i love this song so much.

Vore was a good change up in the album. Kind of like God's from the Sundowning album.

A lot of people seem to dislike this song. But, it's one of my favorites on the album. The second half of the song gives me a strong Nobuo Uematsu (Final Fantasy) vibe which i really like. That chord progression is so good.

At some point soon you guys should check out Sugar from their previous album. It will melt Eric’s face.

I’m still here waiting on you to react to THE OFFERING from their first album. Sometimes I wish you guys would do a full album reaction from start to finish of their discography, SERIOUSLY!! Everyone wants you to 🤘🏻👍🏻 VORE is awesome!! It’s a change in the album flow, it was like a right hook you didn’t see coming, absolute banger of a track

Everyone gets lost in the screams but THAT CHORUS.

I love how Kyle is just enjoying the opening part while Eric is confused by the screaming lol 😂

I can attest that it is exactly the same and beyond amazing live! I had the pleasure to hear them play it only 2nd time ever live in June, and it blew my mind!

Vore is in my top 2 on this album with the title track and Ascensionism tying for 1st place. I love the transitions and the possible meaning the lyrics have, especially "Will we remain stuck in the throat of gods?" and all the references to being eaten alive that also appear in the bible. In the judeo-christian lore, after Adam ate the forbidden fruit, God made a chunk of the apple to be stuck in Adam's throat and the laryngeal protuberance was since passed on to all men as a reminder of the first man's sin. The swallowing seems to me that is a metaphor for giving in for temptation, to numb yourself by feeling the pain at its maximum level.

I flew to Manchester last week to see Sleep Token live. I was a bit worried about his voice not being this perfect. But when they hit the stage, I could not believe that these guys sound so much better live! (INCLUDING HIS VOCALS) :O

8:03 is a sneaky blegh 🥵🤘🏼

Yes, guys, please react to the whole album, it’s a masterpiece!

This was pleasantly unexpected 🤘🔥🤘

So the "writing" that you're seeing are actually the runes from the entire album. Each song (on their records) has the title written in this language, and there are messages they've sent us in these runes as well. Several people have decrypted the runes and it really is just a hell of a ride to read what Sleep is telling us

I bought the Sleep Token album and have listened to it at least 5 times already, it's just a really good album and thanks for yet another great reaction guys.

Top tier music with top tier bois chilling in KZfaq sea! Wish u a good time❤😊

This is one of those gut punch songs for me and is one of my fave that they've ever done.

This is the most Deftones sounding song I’ve heard from them so far

I would love to see y'all listen to DYWTYLM. One of my favorites from Take Me Back To Eden and some of their best lyrics.

Perfect timing, just woke up😂

Vore is the song that got me into these guys. Then to see it played live back in September…holy smokes…so intense.

@6:57 it could the thick black burning tar mentioned in Euclid.

Love Vore 🖤 so much pain being let go

I'm so excited to see them live. Y'all, if you go through all the albums. Your brains🤯

Can't wait till you guys get to Euclid, such a good wrap up to the album

I would love to see you go back to their earlier work for sure, do the whole journey! There are lyrics and themes that carry through from the very first song on the first album.

Coming back to this video where I saw Sleep Token live two weeks ago, this song absolutely shreds at a concert. I think Vessel's screams sounded more intense and IV did a lot of backup screaming too and they were killing it.

Yes. Been waiting for this one 😅🔥

This is one of my favorite's 🖤 I love everything sleep token do 🖤

I love this song, I have seen it live on KZfaq and still amazing like the album.

Yeah the placement in the album line up is everything for this

This is my favorite off the new album…and one of my favorite songs by them thus far. #worship

Gutted you guys missed the blegh after the 2nd "are you in pain like I am" at the end! It's really deep in the mix but it's a proper blegh, he goes hard on it live! Thankful enough to have seen them 5 times already, and again next week!!

Vore is such an underrated song

To answer some of your questions: I hypothesis based on what some other reactors have said, is that the black goo is the characters getting corrupted. I did notice that In Take Me Back To Eden the figurine wasn't getting corrupted, but was corrupting everything around her. Lore: Vessel had a dream about the deity Sleep and the band is a dedication to her and the songs are the way they worship her, they are Vessels offerings to Sleep. I have seen some articles and commenters claim to know who Vessel is, but I do not know who he is and I prefer the mystery. Coded Symbols: The symbols on the videos are a coded alphabet giving the name of the song and I believe the album name (definitely the album name on the vynl). The subreddit r/sleeptoken is where I saw the alphabet and corresponding English letters. The subreddit also has a lot of disection of the lore and lyrics. Call backs: This album has a bunch of call backs from the last two albums - This Place Will Become Your Tomb and Sundowning. Euclid ( on this album) has at least one call back to The Night Does Not Belong To God. They also have another song called Jaws which might be a call back here, but I haven't heard it enough to know. Recommendations: I would love to see you react to The Offering, Dark Signs, Jaws, and others eventually. Love your reactions.

" I cant imagine what its like live " After seeing them this June I will say this it is fantastic ,captivating and wondrous and I cant wait to see what they do when they swing back round to europe in the Autumn

I would love to see you guys react to their first album sundowning! Its such a beautiful wide variety album just like TMBTE. I know you guys would love it!! You gotta check it out!!!

Great reaction~~~~ Please do more older Sleep Token, they're so good 😃😃😃

this is one of my favorites from them and i was so happy when they played it live at my show

"voraphilia” or “vorarephilia” and refers to a fetish in which one fantasizes about being eaten alive or eating another creature alive

I freaking love this whole album. Also just discovered Silent Planet-Antimatter. That is a whole jam.

You guys gotta listen to Rain by sleep Token

All there songs hit me in my core

Oh and the incense thing that the priests carry is a type of censer called a thurible.

Speaking of masterpieces........The Anchor----MASTERPIECE. WORTH. THE. WATCH.

my fav song this song is so underated

I love how you can see every feeling on Kyle's face! The expressions on his face relate to what I feel when I hear Sleep Token ❤

Vore is amazing, thanks again ♥

I love the drumming in this song

Always have to stay till the very end to see what Eric has to say! It's all true!

Gonna be honest, I was shocked when I first heard this song and it took me a few listens before I could get behind it and then I read the lyrics and was like "Oh yeah, this is the sh√t!!!" Lol Great reaction as usual guys, keep doing your thing!

Amazing song

Finally ❤

Sleep Token definitely has many layers, woww!

“Euclid” the last song on take me back to Eden is by far my favorite song on the album. Can’t wait till y’all get to it

Would be nice to see you guys react to older stuff from them like: the offering, Atlantis, Jaws.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mJt1atye29-4gGQ.html This is by far the best live recording of them (so far). And it has Vore on the set, as well as The Summoning. Someone in the comments has a time stamp for each song on the set. Be awesome if you did a reaction to one, or some, of them 🤘🏻 Also… if you wanna hear vessel do a blegh, watch Higher at the end of the set 😉

I hope to see them live one day, already sold out in US. 😢

This song is soo POWERFUL LIVE!! Vessel I just goes OFFF!!!

You guys should definitely do aqua regia if you haven’t already yet ( I don’t believe you have, because I’ve been trying to keep up with all of your sleep token stuff for a while now). If you have, then the apparition would be the next best to check out. I love your reactions and can’t wait to watch more!

First time hearing this one, like the others, I’ve heard first from y’all. I like it, just gonna have to look up the lyrics 😅

“There is always something in the way, I wanna have you to myself once” They always have the words to cut all the way to your core man

this is worship ! i love this band more and more

I've heard that Dani Filth (Cradle of) helped coach Vessel on the high screams for this album. If it's true, I mean...you can hear it.

We need SLEEP TOKEN - BLOOD SPORT (FROM THE ROOM BELOW) with the video OMG that song man....

Going through all your Sleep Token reactions.... loving your perspective and takes on how you interpret the lyrics. Some hate the face out on Core but time it fits. It's like Vessel is being swallowed whole by the Deity and as he vanishes down the throat of the god his voice slowly fades away

Great reaction, more ST please!

Another great reaction. Next, check out their cover of Outkast's Hey Ya!

My top fav off the whole album

I don't think you've done it yet, but if you're gonna do some more from this album you have to react to the closer Euclid. It's one of their best in terms of songwriting. Incredible piece of music.

LETS GOOO MORE SLEEP TOKEN 🔥🔥🔥

Whole album is really good. The next song need to be in this moment the purge it is will good

Love watching your reaction videos. If you’re not familiar with the band Kardashev, I think you would enjoy them. They are considered to be in the deathgaze genre. My top suggestions would be Torchpassing, Between Sea and Sky, Compost Grave-Song and Glass Phantoms.

yall should react. to{ is it really you?} older song from them but i love it!

This song sounds soo much like axe to fall era converge.. I love it!

Atlantic, do it, feel it

You should check out some of the stuff from their first album

ST's heaviest song 🤘

yessssssssssssssssss

Keep churning out this album

They supplied art for each of the songs, sort of a character image. The visualizers are of those images.

cant wait for them to get to the breakdown of The Offering

❤

Guys, please please please do Alkaline next time. It’s a music video and I’m sure you guys will really like it. That said, Vore is heavy as shit.

Alkaline has a video with Vessel. It's from the previous album, but I think you'd really enjoy it next. As far as concerts go, I saw them in 2022 and they opened with Alkaline. Sleep Token is full of lore. Lore aside, to me Vore and the whole album is about losing a relationship.

One of their best songs in my opinion. Although, with this band, there's no bad songs. None at all. They create magic. When I found this band, it felt like discovering a new colour.

It’s the tar from Like That , Euclid and the Calcutta video

Hint: the symbols are actually the song titles! I got the vnyil of TMBTE, and you get the album art in a booklet, i noticed its the same as the titles (most people figure it out not saying im the only one🤣) there's also a hidden message too, i made a key and decoded it! Its just so fun that the band puts so much detail into their music and their art!! Love this band sm, would love to see album reactions for sundowning, and this will become your tomb, they are amazing albums that create a cohesive story with TMBTE as well!!! Love this reaction❤

Google Vore meaning. The lyrics and theme prevade the whole album.

Listening to this album is like Bastian reading the never ending story. It's an experience.

When my boyfriend and I went to our show after Vore he turned to me and said “if I was in a fight this is the song I’d want to play.” He hadn’t really listened to Sleep Token before the concert so he had completely fresh eyes for the show and their sound. 😂

fun fact - IV (the guitarist) does some of the screaming in this song during live performances ☺️

Never thought I'd love getting my face ripped off so much 😂

You guys should do Aqua Regia, so good. So different.

Please react to some of their live performances one of these times they are sick.

That black liquid is worship juice my guys lmao

At one point in this reaction, I wondered how you would feel about having the lyrics pulled up for Born to Lead by FIR since it is more of a instrument performance, and then Kyle mentioned the shorter side of Vore’s lyrical length, and it made me laugh! Really would like to see Born to Lead or Rolling Stone by FIR reacted to sometime, but can definitely handle some more Sleep Token! And I’m on the same “People Hater’s” bus that Carbs ride on

Look up what Vore means slangly and you’ll understand the swallowing lyric better 😉

"Let's get swallowed whole." Love this line. I think I've been swallowed whole by Sleep Token.