Chief Reacts To "Sleep Token - Atlantic"

[@chloestarshine]

This connection to the music is what literally changed me as a person a few years ago and seeing other people experience it makes me very happy. This is a special band for the people who connect with them regardless of whatever genre they're leaning toward at the time. It's just as close to a religious experience I've ever had as a non religious person.

[@XxJamesusxX]

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@shamalamaaa]

This, all of this 🙌🏼

[@jstbeeinme]

Perfection explanation

[@andrewdixon4252]

Yo well put I subscribed to your channel off of your comment alone !!

[@chloestarshine]

@andrewdixon4252 well thank you, I don't post anything though haha

[@seijuro13]

II is a monster on those drums for sure. Easy to see why he won drummer of the year. I'm another one that's fallen down the rabbit hole with these guys.

[@MrKtosiu14792]

hold on, drummer of the year?

[@jeanproctor3663]

I don't think we can help but listen to them every day though, can we? To me, Sleep Token are lyrically and musically perfect and Vessel is an amazing wordsmith. Worship...

[@jasminedye5880]

I ugly cried when I saw them perform this song live

[@anateresapereira7384]

This will be me in a month

[@brbsnortingcatnip]

I almost want to see them alone so I don't feel like such a blubbering idiot crying over half the songs.

[@jasminedye5880]

@@brbsnortingcatnip I went alone and honestly it was perfect

[@anateresapereira7384]

@@brbsnortingcatnip Exact reason why I went alone to Wembley in December! It was worth it.

[@carriefish]

Me too 😩🥺

[@S2023T]

For me personally probably the most emotional song by Sleep Token. It got me...it just got me every time 🥺

[@Chief322]

I still get choked up with every listen honestly 🥺

[@S2023T]

@@Chief322 Yes, it's actually hard to put into words what you feel about it, how you feel with and for Vessel 🥺 I'm really looking forward to seeing Sleep Token live on June 12th! 🖤

[@Chief322]

Day after my bday that! Have an AMAZING time!

[@13191215]

This and Missing Limbs for me. I love both of them, and hate then at the same time because they make me feel so strongly.

[@wolfangel369]

This is my favourite Sleep Token song...utterly astonishing ❤❤❤❤❤

[@mac11atf38]

Vessel never fails to amaze me. Chills every fuckin song🥶💯

[@BOLDgames]

i was today years old when i realized when he says "anything to get my to sleep" he means "anything to get me to Sleep." He means HER. I shall go cry in a ball now.

[@jamii7858]

Sleep is a god not a person, Eden is a person! Sleep is a god they worship, Eden is the girl he loves

[@cradlegrl]

Sleep Token is just the best band ever!! Not one song of theirs is bad.

[@Eyeyamgod]

I love how the final vocals with the guitars sounds like he's under water. So awesome.

[@astrowerm]

theres ambient rain in the 2nd verse as well, building up the flood lol

[@earthscorcher]

Holy shit - thank you for this little addition. I didn't notice that it was a buildup to the "flood.” I thought it was in response to "anything to get me to sleep" beforehand. Like those rain noise machines 😅

[@ph-fi7qo]

the lead guitars sound like whales

[@iendros]

It's something strange about Sleep Token. I've heard them for the first time a week or so ago. A friend had a snippet of "Chokehold" in his WhatsApp status and it just caught me. I mean, I love music that's emotional, intensive, extreme, everything epic with a high intensity level. Some way to feel alive through my PTSD. But this is ... compared to other music like the jump from conventional explosives to thermonuclear. I don't know how they're doing this but it has such a strange, yet caring and catching magic. Like it's possesed. And now it possesses me too. It tears you apart only to instantly put you back together. I've found many truly wonderful artists and bands throughout my life like A Perfect Circle, Dredg, Thrice and many others. Also all some very, very unique stuff, artists. But this is - It's like from another planet. Guess now I finally feel that phrase. Or it's that "one in a million hit" that got me. I'm confused, fascinated and I want more.

[@anateresapereira7384]

I love this comment so, so much. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words.

[@travisbickleish]

I'd love to see them support TOOL on tour. I'd crawl over lightbulb glass to see that.

[@JinofskiYaBoi]

this was my favorite song for such a long time, but holy shit, I watched an analysis of the lyrics and it completely transformed it for me, transcended even further beyond favorite, but god I have a hard time listening to it anymore Vessel just finds a way to talk about these horrifying emotionally overwhelming subjects in a way that blows my mind, all the themes of mental health and depression and s**cide through his lyrics, its... terrifyingly good ❤

[@RedAce-RTI]

sleeptoken just gut punches you with feelings, i never felt how i felt before when i first listened to sleeptoken, especially "fall for me", that one made me actually tear up since a decade+ of not even gettin watery in the eyes, its honestly impressive

[@TeeBagGee]

💜💜 They really just can't make a bad song can they? Blood Sport (the room blow) is a MUST!

[@goldenruletv7301]

The greatest band since Jinjer. What I would pay to see them together!

[@MarkTomblin]

My first time listening to Sleep Token. They create a great soundscape & take you on a journey. Reminds me of Pink Floyd (I'm old.)

[@nancyandren8614]

I can not express my gratitude enough for this reaction video. It is because of YOU that I now have Sleep Token in my life. There’s no way I will EVER be able to repay this gift that you have given me.

[@Pufferzsola]

I love it when you react to Sleep Token. Amazing music, amazing feelings. I adore how sensitive you are about music. Do not change

[@VitaminPete616]

My boy, its masterclass...idk where i jumped on this track....i lived world of violence and this came out! I stlill live on those, but this song always calms me down!

[@andrewj3398]

Wait until you hear blood sport the room below performance… hits straight to the heart in my opinion

[@yilomina2047]

Yes, PLEASE do this!

[@laukaz02]

I just listened to it! Thanks for mentioning it. 🙏 Wow... hard not to get emotional with Sleep token, ey? Another incredible tune!

[@andrewj3398]

@@laukaz02 I love that you loved it. The way his voice and the piano intensifies gradually is so perfect. And that first distorted “somehwereeeeee” that he roars gets me every time and it’s beautiful seeing reactors expression when they first hear it. Absolutely beautiful.

[@laukaz02]

@Andrew J Yeah I'm totally sold now! And yeah, 100% agreed. Not sure what my face was like, but I had shivers listening to it for the first time! ❤

[@kriskeyser9679]

The absolutely best band I have ever heard in my life. This song is hands down my favorite (if one can even have a favorite) lol I can’t help but getting emotional during this song🥰

[@Emma_S226]

Your reactions are so very special to me. ❤

[@extremelywhitegirl2543]

My favorite band now. I react to them every week now. I'm on a binge to see other reactors now. Lol ❤

[@StubbsDK]

This was the first song I heard from them… Their album was the top spot on an alternative album of the year list, over the new Limp Bizkit and Twelve Foot Ninja, so I had to listen to it… I was freaking blown away instantly, and the album just fucking wrecked me! I fell in love HARD with them! Tracks like Missing Limbs and Bloodsport made sob like little boy with a skinned knee getting kicked in the nuts, while being dumped on his birthday, and their cover of Hey Ya really made it a completely different song!

[@laukaz02]

Dang! You totally got me on the ST train now, Chief! Thank you. And I want to echo what people have been saying already: Blood sport! ❤

[@jameslynch1724]

Haaaaa …. Me too Chief… EVERY song I have heard has blown me away and more than a few have made me emotional…. What is it with this guys voice and piano playing and ability to write a tune…?… incredible

[@markfoster74]

That was beautiful 🌊, it took me to a place that personally reminded me of a mix of pink floyd type instrumental, with Hozier voice tones. Loved the gentle rain effect in the background. Totally new band to me and I loved it. Thank you 🙌👏

[@laukaz02]

I had a very similar association! Glad you wrote that, Mark! (Plus it reminds me of something else, that I can't still put my finger on right now, but will probably come to me later.) Anyway, very moving and very beautiful this song. Like looking into the depth of the ocean: soothing and haunting at the same time.

[@yilomina2047]

Welcome to Sleep Token!

[@TobiiRheaStarr]

Sleep Token are like a drug! I swear there’s subliminal messages in their music as it’s epic! II is a beast of a drummer! His fills and ghost notes are beautiful. Such a beautiful song and another great reaction 🖤

[@Menma_Furikake]

Yo someone else that loves Ren and Sleep Token? Never imagined I'd see that lol.

[@TobiiRheaStarr]

@@Menma_Furikake yeahhh man! My 2 fave artist/bands!! 🖤

[@TobiiRheaStarr]

@@Menma_Furikake ahaha you have the same name as my brother 🤣

[@Menma_Furikake]

@@TobiiRheaStarr They're my favorite bands too haha

[@TobiiRheaStarr]

@@Menma_Furikake someone has great taste! 🖤

[@marceljusten705]

the drums are very crazy. I love drums like this.

[@lush-synapse]

NOW GO LISTEN TO 'CALCUTTA' AND BE LIFTED TO THE SKY. Sleep Token is , without understating it, divine.

[@AmarnaJenniferWhitehouse]

This is one of my favourites of theirs. His voice is special indeed. Love it. Another great reaction Chief! 🤘🫂

[@llSplice]

So glad you reacted to this one from ST. One of my favorites. Worship ❤

[@CHVSE77]

Gonna see them in Anaheim Ca in oct 🙌🏼 worship

[@renskevanderhaagen5813]

Im joining this Sleep Token journey, I'm loving their music. Looking forward to the next one 🥰 (my favorite atm is Sugar but Blood Sport is also great)

[@kimberlyturnbull1104]

Love this band totally obsessed. I can’t help but want to know the meaning behind every song because everything they do just hits different. I think this song is about suicide perhaps, I don’t know can’t be sure. But phrases like trying not to crush into sand like the weight & pressure of whatever it is he’s going through is too much to handle. Wash away the blood on my hands. Pain they know they don’t understand. At the bedside and many more phrases lead me to think it’s about a suicide attempt. I just can’t stop listening to Sleep Token best music I have heard in such a long time. Can’t wait to see more of your reactions to Sleep Token add Blood Sport to your list.

[@dalerjh]

Hello Kimberly, I suspect you're right about the meaning of this song. It is generally interpreted as being about a failed suicide attempt. In fact the whole of 'This Place Will Become Your Tomb' is about suicide. You may notice that each track on the album has a depth in metres, which symbolises someone falling deeper into a depression. In both 'The Love You Want' and 'Fall for Me' videos, the main protagonist commits suicide. 'High Water' is an incredibly difficult listen lyrically and the static noise at the end of 'Missing Limbs' is just perfect. It's where we reach the deepest, darkest depths of the ocean. It is such a remarkable work of art and I'm so grateful to the immense bravery of Vessel in sharing it with us. W O R S H I P

[@MikeThePole]

Man I had tears at the end, the drumming in the final section broke me

[@edelwiess2306]

You’re going to love them live! They’ve played this track in the 3 times I’ve seen them and they do it beautifully, so take some tissues just in case! What a cracking opener to the album !! I don’t know what they put in their sauce to make it so emotional, but they do it all the time! Great reaction 😊

[@verukaward]

That was beautiful! And a lot of other adjectives-I can’t put the words together. Loved it.

[@DowntunedDevil]

Great react. This is the exact same way I felt the first second...third... Hell, EVERY time I hear this song. Beautifully haunting. Gorgeous. More of these guys!

[@JeremiasDK]

I love how this makes you emotional. I subbed! Really appreciate your reaction!!

[@yilomina2047]

Worship

[@michaelandkaitlinjackisch9043]

this song in koln a few days ago was SO good live. made me cry lol

[@prometheusfallen]

Beautiful reaction to a beautiful song, bro. New sub! Well done!

[@Bonz-vc8zd]

There’s no better music or movies than the ones that make you emotional. The magic is stronger when musicians have that talent or when actors have that ability to flip your emotions like a roller coaster 😂

[@JustGerryNow]

I love the drop and the way the guitar comes in bc to me the effect on the guitar kinda sounds like whale calls? Idk I love this song so much bc it's just so intensely pretty and heartbreaking 😭

[@elihansen820]

This one, Bloodsport (from the room below) and Fall For Me get me every time. I don’t quite know what it is, but they make me more emotional than almost any other song/band.

[@trevor112211]

First song I heard by them was Alkaline. By the time I heard Atlantic I was hooked.

[@TheGiusinoGirl]

Ive really been enjoying your reactions recently, i found you through Ren but Ive been a ST fan for longer, and when i saw your short of Atlantic i was so excited for this reaction. This song is so deep, it rips me open nearly everytime. Knowing what the song is actually about makes it worse. 💔🖤

[@yilomina2047]

Do you have knowledge that I don't have??? What is it about?

[@TheGiusinoGirl]

@@yilomina2047 ST doesnt speak about their art, choosing to leave Everything up to the observer, but the general consensus is that its about the aftermath of a S. Attempt. This song hits so freakin hard.. 🙏

[@yilomina2047]

@@TheGiusinoGirl Ok, yes - I've seen lots of theories about it, I was just wondering if you had specific knowledge. I think it's about the aftermath of an accident that he survived, but his partner, the passenger, did not. "Blue lights over murder" would refer to the lights of the emergency responders, with people telling him that it wasn't his fault, but him feeling that he is a murderer. "Crumble like a temple built from future daughters to wasteland when the oceans recede" would refer to their lost future and how bleak his conscious moments are now, with the ocean representing unconsciousness. No matter how you interpret it, it's haunting and beautiful!

[@ExtremePainGames]

You are one of the most unique / straight up REACTION guys out there.

[@davespicer3647]

Have you ever heard the term "eargasm"? To me it's more than clever, it's literally true. Giving oneself to the music - surrendering to it - seems a perfect analog to the feminine experience of making love.

[@tech4ever1]

I appreciate this react video so much. You got it and it got you just like it got me. It's fucking brilliant.

[@StarStuffGal321]

Thank you, Chief, for reacting to this one! Beautiful song! Truly does take you somewhere else and your reaction was, as usual, the best! Rockville!!!!! Woooo!!!! Oh Liz and I are going to Blue Ridge Rock Fest in September, and yes we will see Sleep Token too! Going to be great!

[@collierpeoples1918]

This one always hits all the feels, def watch Bloodsport(from The Room Below) if you haven't yet! Just Vessel and his Piano

[@jamescombridgeart]

Wowww. This was cinematic somehow

[@Eyeyamgod]

Yeah they have other very cinematic structured songs. You can literally imagine a scene beat by beat. They're video for Alkaline is basically a mini movie.

[@75jvs]

This is one of my favorites by ST!

[@DrCrimp-sg5pb]

II’s drumming is simply insane

[@ekatyawa8454]

vessel does not belong here, he belongs to the gods, just descended here for a bit, to give us all an experience of a lifetime..,

[@tracyraines1059]

Hey I just realized I wasn't subbed to your channel but I am now.... I love your sleep token reactions this one was really good seems like it hit you like it did me very emotional and brings tears to my eyes. You are so adorable and I love your accent too. Just wait till you hear Calcutta really anything from the first 2 EPS.

[@earthscorcher]

This one has thoroughly come to destroy me. Every. Time.

[@blkflwer6592]

This song is amazing... And i think it's so emotional to me bc i think it's about a suicide attempt. This album is has coordinates in it for like the deepest parts of the ocean. So it's like vessel is at his lowest. And anyone who has.. sadly made those attempts can feel it in this song. The longing not to be woken up, the pain that others can't understand... Ugh vessel, it's going to be ok.

[@astrowerm]

Love the emotion that Sleep Token just forces out of all of us when we hear it. Anyone that says their music is good, is either lying or dont understand music as an art lol

[@astrowerm]

Im going to see Sleep Token in september in michigan!

[@adelhassan2834]

No you don't wanna be walking on a beach with such a song... This song is about losing his partner in a car accident where the car drowned and he survived, his partner didn't... So he woke up with people starring at him and telling him what had happened...

[@azraelcales]

If you do blood sport I would highly recommend doing a double reaction. Do the regular then the "room below" version. Much love my friend. Always. ❤️🤘🔥🤘

[@FullMetalcoreJojo]

This one is so difficult to listen to because it describes a moment in my past with such vivid detail that it literally places me back in that 'space'. The frozen planets line particularly. I'm shaking typing this comment. I'm so sorry to be a downer.

[@TeeBagGee]

Also, have you done Higher or Hypnosis yet? Higher is my fav. Thanks for another excellent video. 💜💜

[@llSplice]

Bloodsport from the room below next please!

[@terrynasonisasupervillain2400]

Nice

[@TofferJ-UK]

❤️👍🇬🇧

[@Peanutbutter83]

Bandage up the trenches, anything to get me to sleep. 😢

[@The0Miller0]

This song is up there with my favorite of all time. I have to have heard it at least 1k times by now. *edit: didn’t realize I stated “up there.” Nope. This is my favorite song out of any and all music I’ve ever heard. There’s just beauty in the elegant darkness of the lyrics and composition. Favorite song of all time.

[@emmanouilellinas8143]

5 months now and still listening to it. My favorite by far

[@The0Miller0]

@@emmanouilellinas8143 Had to change the comment. It’s more up to date now.

[@NUMBgirl021]

you have beautiful eyes

[@Chief322]

🥹🫂 Thank you! That's so sweet of you 😌💜

[@oksana92401]

Hi! React please SKYND it's very interesting art performance band 😊all song about true crime! So creative and unique!! 😊🎉

[@I_urge_to_count]

114

[@androtaz2621]

its supposed to do that if its good

[@Luktus8]

Call me when they bury bodies underwater, cause uts blue light over murder for me. ( Id rather drown with the other bodies than still be in this toxic situation). Fuuuuuuu

[@jarvisbinks7576]

I’m a heretical fan who superimposes my Christian worldview onto the music. Ends up working out beautifully. Not that anyone agrees or cares. Lol.

[@primitivedogs4638]

5:02 intro. long!