Daughtry’s Chris Daughtry has named the five metal bands that he currently loves, and one of them apparently makes him feel a little different.
“The first time I heard Sleep Token, my whole face exploded,” the frontman revealed in a new chat with Loudwire. “I was turned on to them by Mark Tremonti. I’m not really sure what I was expecting to hear when I first heard ‘Atlantic,’ but it was not that.”
“I was instantly drawn in by Vessel’s vocals and the many different colors in his voice. You can hear so many influences and genres in each song it’s almost hard to place, but then the heavy guitars and drums hit you in the face and you’re like. ‘Okay that’s metal!’ Haha,” he added.
Sleep Token made their debut in 2016 with the release of their first single, ‘Thread The Needle.’ Since the release of their 2023 album, ‘Take Me Back To Eden,’ the band has gained enough popularity to catch the attention of other rock musicians.
“They’re a really curious band in what they’re putting out in terms of all of these different textures,” Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford said of the band. “They’re very difficult to pin down. That’s what I find intriguing as a musician listening to their music. It’s going to a lot of different places, and I think that there isn’t any other band out there right now that’s able to do that.”
“It took me three listens of [The Summoning] to realize that when they do that whole psychedelic section at the end, that it’s actually the same chorus as it was before, only in a completely different way,” Amy Lee added in another interview. “And I love it even more for that. I thought they just went a whole new direction and wrote a new part, and then I was like, ‘Wait that’s the same… but not at all.'”
Sleep Token’s upcoming tour starts on November 3 in Paris, France, and ends on December 3 in London, UK. Bilmuri will be the supporting act for the entire tour.
