So there's a Sleep Token tribute band now and it honestly looks like great fun

Sleep Broken, dressed as Sleep Token, looking at the camera — (Image credit: Niamh Louise)

You know you've truly made it when you've finally got your own tribute band. Some of them are actually pretty damn decent, too - Popestars (Ghost), The Black Charade (My Chemical Romance) and Korn Again (Korn...obviously) are just some of the cover bands this writer has seen pay exceptionally spot-on homage to rock icons in recent years, and at much more reasonable prices than your average arena gig.

Now, Sleep Token - unquestionably the biggest thing to hit metal in decades - have officially joined the enviable pantheon of rock heavyweights with their own tribute bands. Enter: Sleep Broken, who have been playing to packed rooms of hundreds of people around the UK in recent weeks, including a show at MK11 in Milton Keynes over the weekend that we just happened to have some eyes in.

Take a look at some footage from the show below. You'd have to imagine that Vessel and the lads would approve.

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It's been a big year for Sleep Token, who released latest album Even In Arcadia in May to huge chart success and positive reviews and played their biggest show ever by headlining Download for the first time.

Covering the show for Metal Hammer, Rich Hobson wrote of Sleep Token's historic headline set in a four-star review: "Even against Green Day, whose Donington debut feels long overdue and Korn, who have their own illustrious past at the festival, Sleep Token headlining Download Festival 2025 feels truly momentous, a legendary event in the making. And their story is still not finished. Number one album, sold out tours, they are the metal sensation of the decade, if not century, and this set draws a line in the sand for doubters. Like it or not, they’re top of the world right now."

Merlin was promoted to Executive Editor of Louder in early 2022, following over ten years working at Metal Hammer. While there, he served as Online Editor and Deputy Editor, before being promoted to Editor in 2016. Before joining Metal Hammer, Merlin worked as Associate Editor at Terrorizer Magazine and has written for Classic Rock, Rock Sound, eFestivals and others. Across his career he has interviewed legends including Ozzy Osbourne, Lemmy, Metallica, Iron Maiden (including getting a trip on Ed Force One courtesy of Bruce Dickinson), Guns N' Roses, KISS, Slipknot, System Of A Down and Meat Loaf. He has also presented and produced the Metal Hammer Podcast, presented the Metal Hammer Radio Show and is probably responsible for 90% of all nu metal-related content making it onto the site.

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