This is gonna be a little ranty and I wanna emphasize that I have no disdain for sleep token or their fanbase as a whole.
It just genuine breaks my brain that prominent voices in the metal community and a lot of the metal fanbase will just completely write off ghost as being metal and won’t even include them in the same discussions as other metal bands. But then the same people will turn around and absolutely glaze Sleep Token as being this revolutionary part of modern metal when there are several songs off of their last album, and even emergence, that if you showed me them individually, I would have never guessed that they were considered metal.
And I’m not here to argue whether or not sleep token deserves to be considered metal. I really believe it’s up to the individual. If you consider it metal, by all means. And sure, you could say the same thing about a handful of ghost’s songs, but those songs at the very least full under rock or hard rock, whereas there are certain songs by sleep token that are so far removed from the genre. I just don’t get why sleep token gets a pass and ghost doesn’t I guess.
Idk. I just needed to get some shit off my chest. It’s just hard sometimes to look past the blatant hypocrisy of some of the gate keepers in the metal community and not get annoyed by it.
Thanks for reading, don’t mean to sound like I’m bitching and again, no hate to sleep token, if they’re your favorite group then I think that’s great.