Sleep Token kicked off their European enviornment tour on Tuesday (November fifth) in Zurich, Switzerland, however they had been down two members.
Previous to the live performance, the UK band introduced that each their bassist, III, and guitarist, IV, had fallen ailing and wouldn’t be performing that night time. However moderately than cancelling the gig, the present would go on by way of the usage of pre-recorded tracks.
“The present will go forward as deliberate, utilizing pre-recorded tracks from each III and IV, captured throughout our current tour preparations,” the band wrote in a publish on Instagram. “We all the time endeavour to keep away from cancelling a Ritual except utterly unavoidable, and we hope this final result is extra acceptable to you than a last-minute cancellation.”
Impressively, Sleep Token didn’t veer from the identical 16-song set they performed — as a full band — throughout their spring North American tour.
The setlist featured seven songs from 2023’s Take Me Again to Eden, 5 songs from 2021’s This Place Will Change into Your Tomb, and 4 from the debut album Sundowning. In fan footage of the efficiency, the usage of pre-recorded tracks is just about undetectable, because the alt-metal act nonetheless fill out a lush soundscape even on these cellphone recordings.
After the present, Sleep Token made a follow-up Instagram publish thanking concertgoers in attendance: “Zurich, thanks in your unwavering help and for elevating your voices with us final night time. Within the absence of our brothers III and IV, your vitality crammed the room and carried us by means of. We’re grateful past phrases for this collective, and for every of you who shared within the Ritual with us. Your presence means the whole lot.”
There’s been no replace as as to if III and IV are nicely sufficient for the subsequent present in France on Thursday (November seventh). Sleep Token’s European/UK tour runs by means of early December, and you may get tickets right here.
Watch fan footage from the Zurich live performance under.