Sleep Token have released another vulnerable new single, Damocles

Sleep Token have just unveiled their third single from new album Even In Arcadia.

Following Emergence and Caramel, today (Friday, April 25) the band unveil Damocles – and while it’s musically beautiful and more of a ballad, its lyrics are extremely heavy, seemingly tackling the different levels of pressure Vessel has been experiencing since their rise to fame.

‘Well, I know I should be touring, I know these chords are boring,’ he sings in the second verse, ‘But I can’t always be killing the game / No golden grand pianos or voices from the shadows will do anythin’ but feel the same.’

Meanwhile, the emotional chorus begins: ‘When the river runs dry and the curtain is called / How will I know if I can’t see the bottom? / Come up for air and choke on it all / No-one else knows that I’ve got a problem.’

Stream Damocles below:

Even In Arcadia tracklist:

1. Look To Windward
2. Emergence
3. Past Self
4. Dangerous
5. Caramel
6. Even In Arcadia
7. Provider
8. Damocles
9. Gethsemane
10. Infinite Baths

Even In Arcadia is due out on May 9 via RCA. Sleep Token headline Download Festival in June – get your tickets now.

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• Sleep Token: “Our identity is represented through the art itself”
• Inside the magic and the mastery of Sleep Token’s early days