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Business Mayor
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Business Mayor
Sleep Token ‘Even in Arcadia': All 10 Songs Ranked
Behold, a new offering. In the last five years, an enigmatic rock band named Sleep Token has bent metal to its will. Emerging from the pandemic shadows of 2020, the masked group quickly established itself as an amorphous entity, syncing guttural screams with pop melodies, hip-hop drums and reggaetón grooves to the growing curiosity of the masses. Sleep Token's disruption is perfectly captured in a viral reaction video from Slaughter to Prevail's Alex Terrible, who rolled his eyes at its lead singer Vessel during a listen of 2023's 'The Summoning.' 'Who the f—k is this guy?' the Russian frontman tells the camera after pausing the song, before summarizing his reaction to the song in imperfect English: 'I very like vocals, it sounds beautiful and gay, but it's okay. It's just not my cup of tea. I don't like clean vocals in heavy music.' But after he resumes play on the song, 'The Summoning' mutates into an explosive drop, with Vessel erupting a death metal gurgle over the band's hammering guitars. Terrible smirks at the camera. 'Okay,' he concedes. While any sort of genre hopping usually makes metal heads recoil, Sleep Token has accrued its own gravitational pull, collecting fans who both worship heavy giants like Knocked Loose and Lorna Shore but know how to catch a vibe to Bad Bunny and Drake. Still, those same fans grew weary after RCA announced last year it was adding Vessel and co. to their roster: Major labels and their machines have historically been known as a 'clean-up-on-aisle-three' death notice for metal bands, taking their grungy scraps and turning them into slick full-course meals. All of this means Sleep Token's Even in Arcadia will be the biggest and most divisive album of their career. The end result? A whole lot of genre mashing, full-blown pop songs, and a few sick metal riffs for good measure. Regardless of whether the project makes you wanna rage or roll your eyes, it's clear Vessel isn't through conquering the rock world. Here are all 10 songs on Sleep Token's Even in Arcadia ranked.
Yahoo
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Slaughter to Prevail Announce New Album, Unleash Single 'Russian Grizzly in America': Stream
The post Slaughter to Prevail Announce New Album, Unleash Single 'Russian Grizzly in America': Stream appeared first on Consequence. Slaughter to Prevail have announced details of their forthcoming album, titled Grizzly. In advance of the LP's July 18th release via Sumerian Records, the predominantly Russian deathcore band has unleashed the single 'Russian Grizzly in America.' Grizzly is Slaughter to Prevail's third full-length studio album, and marks the follow-up to 2021's Kostolom. The album announcement comes after the release of five singles ('Conflict,' 'Viking,' '1984,' 'Behelit,' and 'Kid of Darkness') that are all included on the 13-track effort. 'I think this is the best album we have ever written,' stated frontman Alex Terrible. 'We put so much effort into it. We spent a lot of time on every detail and really poured our souls into the songs. In the past, we were always rushing to finish albums and just releasing whatever we had. This time, we took our time, worked carefully on each track, and made sure everything was exactly how we wanted it. Hopefully it was all worth it.' Grizzly also features a couple of notable guest artists, including Falling in Reverse singer Ronnie Radke on the song 'Imdead' and Japanese pop-metal sensations BABYMETAL on the track 'Song 3.' Slaughter to Prevail have built up a huge following over the past few years, and have high-profile US festival slots coming up at Vans Warped Tour (all three cities), Inkcarceration, Louder Than Life, and Aftershock. In addition to belting out blistering vocals, Alex Terrible has started a side career as a bare-knuckle fighter, crushing his opponent just 37 seconds into his debut match earlier this year. The video for 'Russian Grizzly in America' features UFC heavyweight fighter Alexander Volkov. Watch the music video for 'Russian Grizzly in America' and see the artwork and tracklist for Grizzly below. Artwork: Tracklist: 01. Banditos 02. Russian Grizzly In America 03. Imdead (feat. Ronnie Radke) 04. Babayka 05. Viking 06. Koschei 07. Song 3 (feat. BABYMETAL) 08. Lift That Shit 09. Behelit 10. Rodina 11. Conflict 12. Kid of Darkness 13. 1984 Popular Posts deadmau5 Apologizes for Blacking Out During Coachella Set New Pornographers Drummer Joseph Seiders Charged with Child Pornography The 100 Best Guitarists of All Time Haley Joel Osment Arrested for Public Intoxication At Ski Resort 4chan Likely Gone Forever After Hackers Take Control Lady Gaga Battles Tech Issues at Coachella: "At Least You Know I Sing Live" Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
New York Times
31-01-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
A Goth Band's Journey From Screams to Whispers
When IC3PEAK released its last album, 'Kiss of Death,' the record had all the characteristics that had made the band into a boogeyman in Russia and led authorities to try and shut down its shows: death-obsessed lyrics, anti-state provocations and bloodcurdling screams. But on the Russian duo's new album, 'Coming Home,' released Friday, the vibe has drastically changed. The harsh electro and heavy metal sounds are largely gone. Instead the band's vocalist, Nastya Kreslina, gently coos and whispers over melodic indie rock. Kreslina said that there was a simple explanation for the shift: 'Everything in our lives has changed.' Three years ago, Kreslina left Moscow just days after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Ever since, Kreslina and her bandmate, Nikolay Kostylev, have been coping with the emotional and creative fallout of the conflict. Kreslina said she used to scream so that Russian listeners would notice her. Now, she said, a quiet voice felt like the only way to get 'noticed among all the screaming.' Since leaving Russia, Kreslina has wandered between Paris, Los Angeles, Istanbul and Turin, Italy, among other cities; Kostylev now lives in Berlin. Kreslina has an apartment in Riga, Latvia, but she said it didn't feel like a permanent address. Since leaving Russia, she said, she still hadn't found a place that 'gave a feeling of home.' Exiled Russian musicians often struggle to rebuild their careers abroad. Distanced from their domestic fan base and, in some cases, designated traitors by their government, many wind up playing small concerts to other émigrés. This is particularly true of mainstream pop acts, but some alternative groups, like IC3PEAK and the deathcore band Slaughter to Prevail, have maintained or even grown in popularity from abroad, even as Russia's cultural cachet has nose-dived. Kostylev said that, based on streaming data, he estimated that about 70 percent of IC3PEAK's fans live outside Russia, so going into exile had not had a significant financial impact. 'In a way we're lucky,' he said: 'We can have personal crises, because we have food on the table.' The band's distinctive look was a key part of its international appeal, said Michael Idov, a former editor-in-chief of GQ Russia who lives in the United States. The band wears all-black with white face paint and its videos often look like horror movies, with zombies and monsters. Idov said those images appealed to social media users searching out unusual acts online, as well as music fans. 'They've always felt ripe for crossover,' he said. During a joint interview with Kreslina in a restaurant on Riga's outskirts, Kostylev said the duo intended to maintain its bold fashion sense, even as it pivots to gentler music. For the 'Coming Home' album campaign, the duo dress as Goth angels in tracksuits. Formed in 2013, when Kreslina and Kostylev were at college in Moscow, IC3PEAK had run-ins with Russian authorities from its early days. In 2018, it released 'Death No More' a track whose video features the band members setting themselves alight in front of a government building in Moscow while Kreslina sings 'All Russia is watching me / Let it all burn.' Around that time, Kostylev said, police officers and security service agents tried to shut down many IC3PEAK shows. He and Kreslina were detained and spied on, Kostylev added. (The F.S.B. did not respond to a request for comment.) At first, the pair found the attention 'fun,' Kostylev said, and every performance felt 'like showing the middle finger' to the authorities. But over time, paranoia grew, and Kostylev left Russia before the 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine began because he had found the atmosphere stifling. Nadya Tolokonnikova, a founder of the art collective Pussy Riot, who also had trouble with the Russian authorities and now also lives in exile, said she had first seen IC3PEAK in Moscow around 2018, at a gig with 'thousands of teenage girls dancing and screaming along.' IC3PEAK was important as 'one of the first artists' in Russia to speak openly about state repression, Tolokonnikova added. 'They're more than a band,' she said: 'They build a world.' 'Coming Home' doesn't feature any openly political tracks, though there are subtle allusions to the war in Ukraine and the experience of exile. On 'Where is My Home?,' for instance, Kreslina said she was singing from the perspective of a soldier returning from a foreign battlefield to find that their country had changed. 'There is my home / But where is my home?' she sings. Both Kreslina and Kostylev said they wanted to reach a Russian audience with the new album, as well as listeners in the West. They had agonized for months over whether to pull their music from streaming services in Russia, Kreslina added, but decided not to so they could maintain a connection with fans there who oppose the government. What long-term IC3PEAK enthusiasts will make of the band's new direction, Kostylev seemed unsure. 'A lot of fans will find it confusing,' he said, 'but we can't do anything about that. We're just doing what we feel.'
