Sleep Token have debuted a handful of ‘Even In Arcadia’ songs at Rock Im Park to kick off their summer 2025 festival run – check out footage of the songs below ahead of their massive Download Festival set this weekend.
This past Saturday (June 7), the anonymous and acclaimed metal band performed at the Rock Im Park festival in Germany, where they treated fans to a number of never-before-performed songs, offering a teaser of what to expect from their upcoming festival appearances.
To kick off their set, Sleep Token began with the first-ever performance of ‘Look to Winward’, the ascending and heavy opening number on their recently released album ‘Even In Arcadia’. They proceeded to perform other hits like ‘The Offering’ and ‘Vore’ before debuting ‘Emergence’, also off their latest record.
Following fan favourites like ‘Alkaline’, ‘Hypnosis’, ‘Aqua Regia’ and ‘Rain’, frontman Vessel and co. treated Rock Im Park to the live debut of ‘Caramel’, a viral hit released earlier this year, before launching into one of their biggest hits ‘The Summoning’.
Sleep Token also debuted the acclaimed ‘Damocles’ in between songs like ‘Granite’, ‘The Love You Want’, ‘Thread The Needle’ and set closer ‘Take Me Back To Eden’.
Sleep Token’s Rock Im Park 2025 setlist was:
‘Look to Winward’ (live debut)
‘The Offering’
‘Vore’
‘Emergence’ (live debut)
‘Alkaline’
‘Hyposis’
‘Aqua Regia’
‘Rain’
‘Caramel’ (live debut)
‘The Summoning’
‘Granite’
‘The Love You Want’
‘Higher’
‘Damocles’ (live debut)
‘Thread The Needle’
‘Take Me Back to Eden’
Check out some fan reactions and clips of Sleep Token’s set below.
what do you mean sleep token played vore at rock im park… and i wasnt there 😭😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/5toWOSRPrH
— star (@therealdoie) June 8, 2025
Sleep Token’s stage set up for Rock Im Park was fuckin wild
— Daniel Mosh (@cam_harden) June 8, 2025
Having watched a few Sleep Token vids from Rock im park, it looks like they’re going blow the Download crowd away.
— Chris Bland (@ChrisBland31) June 8, 2025
Sleep Token playing on castle greyskull at Rock Im park pic.twitter.com/eL6qdSbR5Z
— Luke (@Gameoverluke) June 8, 2025
In a glowing five-star review of the record, Rishi Shah wrote for NME: “‘Even In Arcadia’ shatters any pressure of expectation into oblivion, building on the bravery of its predecessor, sonically, while its lyrics reveal the most exposed version of Vessel we’ve seen yet. From Eden to Arcadia – and beyond – let the worship continue.”
Sleep Token are gearing up to headline Download Festival 2025 alongside Green Day and Korn this weekend (June 13-15). The masked band will close out the festival on Saturday (June 14), where they’ll deliver a massive two-hour set – check out the weekend’s full schedule here.
At the end of last year, festival organiser Andy Copping spoke to NME in a new interview and opened up about the importance of creating a platform for new and emerging talent like Sleep Token. “I’ve always wanted to do that, and you can see it in how we’ve been developing the other stages like the Dogtooth stage and the Avalanche,” he said.
“For us, it’s about giving bands the opportunity to grow. We’ve got the platform and we want to be sending a message to those guys like ‘Come and play. We believe in you and you’ve got a great opportunity here.’ Thankfully, for the most part, these bands do step up and they do deliver.”
In July, Sleep Token’s drummer II will appear at Black Sabbath’s final-ever concert in Birmingham. The charity show – apart from Sabbath and II – will include performances from the likes of Metallica, Slayer, Mastodon and many more.
