Corey Taylor praises Sleep Token, compares them to early Slipknot
nme.comCorey Taylor has praised Sleep Token and compared the mysterious masked band to early Slipknot.Sleep Token released their third album ‘Take Me Back To Eden’ on Friday (May 19).
Speaking about the band in a new interview with Allison Hagendorf, Corey Taylor said (via Loudwire): “I’ll call them metal, but there’re so many different levels and layers [to the music].
There’s pop elements, there’s jazz elements. I love the fact that nobody really knows who they are. I love the fact that they don’t want to be known.”“There are hints of early, early Slipknot there,” he continued. “At first we were like, ‘Nope.
You get nothing. This is what you get, you figure it out. We’ll let the music speak for ourselves’.”Speaking to NME earlier this year, Taylor said Sleep Token were one of a handful of new heavy bands still inspiring him alongside Turnstile and Bad Omens. “You can feel them leaning into the passion.
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