Bands Like Sleep Token: 12 Artists for Heavy, Atmospheric, Genre-Blurring Modern Music

If you are looking for bands like Sleep Token, start with Bad Omens, Spiritbox, Loathe, Dayseeker, Thornhill, VOLA, TesseracT, Bring Me the Horizon, Northlane, Imminence, Leprous, and Deftones.

But Sleep Token is unusually difficult to match because the band is not defined by one genre. Their music can move from piano and soulful vocals into electronic pop, progressive metal, djent-style guitars, ambient passages, and enormous breakdowns—sometimes within the same song. Apple Music itself currently places Bad Omens, Dayseeker, and Spiritbox among Sleep Token’s similar artists. (Apple Music – Web Player)

So the best recommendation depends on what you actually love about Sleep Token.

If you want the seductive electronic side, start with Bad Omens. If you want beauty colliding with extreme heaviness, try Spiritbox. If songs such as “Atlantic” and “Telomeres” are your favorites, Dayseeker may work better. If you want the progressive rhythms underneath everything, TesseracT and VOLA are essential.

Here are 12 bands worth hearing next.

1. Bad Omens

Start with: “The Death of Peace of Mind,” “Just Pretend,” “Like a Villain”

Bad Omens is probably the easiest recommendation for someone who wants another modern heavy band capable of sounding seductive, electronic, atmospheric, and crushing within the same album.

Their 2022 album The Death of Peace of Mind pushed the group away from straightforward metalcore and deeper into synthesizers, industrial textures, dark pop, and highly polished vocals. Apple Music describes the record as a major expansion into synth-led music influenced by industrial, punk, and darker pop. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“The Death of Peace of Mind” is the obvious first song for a Sleep Token listener.

It does not imitate Vessel’s voice or Sleep Token’s mythology. The similarity is structural: restraint makes the heavy moments feel heavier.

Both bands understand that distorted guitars have more impact after you have spent several minutes without them.

Best for: Fans of “Granite,” “Ascensionism,” and Sleep Token’s darker sensual side.

2. Spiritbox

Start with: “Constance,” “Circle With Me,” “Jaded”

Spiritbox may be the strongest recommendation if what fascinates you about Sleep Token is the collision between beauty and violence.

Courtney LaPlante can move from clean, ethereal singing into extreme vocals, while the music surrounding her shifts between atmosphere, progressive metal, and metalcore. Apple Music describes Spiritbox as balancing rage with beauty and directly lists Sleep Token among the band’s similar artists. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“Constance” is the best starting point if you want emotion first.

“Circle With Me” gives you a more immediate combination of melody and heaviness.

Then move into Tsunami Sea, Spiritbox’s 2025 second album, if you want to hear how far the band has expanded that contrast. (Apple Music – Web Player)

Best for: Fans who like Sleep Token’s soft-to-devastating dynamic shifts.

3. Loathe

Start with: “Is It Really You?,” “Two-Way Mirror,” “A Sad Cartoon”

Loathe is one of the best choices if your favorite Sleep Token moments are the ones where heaviness almost dissolves into a dream.

The Liverpool band can be brutally heavy, but songs such as “Is It Really You?” and “Two-Way Mirror” move through hazy guitars and intimate vocals that feel closer to shoegaze than conventional metalcore.

That contrast became central to I Let It In and It Took Everything and continued developing afterward. Loathe’s 2026 album A Stranger to You expanded further into ambient electronic textures. (Apple Music – Web Player)

Loathe is less theatrical than Sleep Token.

But emotionally, the bands often understand the same principle:

something can feel enormous without being loud all the time.

Best for: Fans of “Telomeres,” “Atlantic,” and the dreamier sections of Take Me Back to Eden.

4. Dayseeker

Start with: “Sleeptalk,” “Neon Grave,” “Without Me”

Dayseeker is the recommendation for listeners who care more about Vessel’s emotional singing than complicated progressive-metal riffs.

Their music sits between post-hardcore, metalcore, atmospheric rock, and modern pop production. Apple Music specifically describes Dayseeker as combining metalcore and post-hardcore with arena-sized choruses and hazy contemporary synths. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“Sleeptalk” is probably the easiest entry point.

It has weight, but the emotional vocal performance carries the song.

“Neon Grave” goes even deeper into grief and atmosphere.

If Sleep Token’s appeal to you is primarily that a heavy band can make genuinely vulnerable songs without losing intensity, Dayseeker makes immediate sense.

Best for: Fans of “Atlantic,” “Are You Really Okay?,” and Sleep Token’s ballad-heavy side.

5. Thornhill

Start with: “Where We Go When We Die,” “Blue Velvet,” “Casanova”

Thornhill is a strong recommendation if you want something stylish, atmospheric, and slightly difficult to categorize.

The Australian band moved beyond its earlier metalcore foundation into a more sensual form of alternative metal, particularly on Heroine. Its 2025 follow-up BODIES continued that evolution, and Apple Music places bands including Loathe, Northlane, Invent Animate, Silent Planet, and Moodring among Thornhill’s closest musical neighbors. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“Where We Go When We Die” shows the heavier side.

“Blue Velvet” demonstrates how atmospheric Thornhill can become.

“Casanova” sits closer to the center.

There is less piano and R&B than in Sleep Token, but the obsession with mood should feel familiar.

Best for: Fans of Sleep Token’s seductive, alternative-metal atmosphere.

6. VOLA

Start with: “Straight Lines,” “Head Mounted Sideways,” “These Black Claws”

VOLA is one of the best recommendations for listeners who want Sleep Token’s progressive-metal machinery combined with electronics and melody.

Apple Music describes the Danish-Swedish group as existing at the intersection of art-metal, electronica, rock, and djent. (Apple Music – Web Player)

That description should already sound promising to a Sleep Token fan.

“Straight Lines” contains enormous rhythmic guitars while remaining surprisingly melodic.

“Head Mounted Sideways” is heavier.

“These Black Claws” introduces an even stranger combination of progressive metal and rhythmic vocal ideas.

VOLA does not have Sleep Token’s romantic mythology or theatrical anonymity.

Instead, the connection comes from arrangement.

Both bands treat genre as a toolbox rather than a boundary.

Best for: Fans of “The Summoning,” “Hypnosis,” and the technical side of Sleep Token.

7. TesseracT

Start with: “Nocturne,” “Legion,” “War of Being”

If the word djent is what led you toward Sleep Token, go directly to TesseracT.

The English progressive-metal band became one of the important acts associated with that rhythmic style, building songs around low-tuned guitars, unusual rhythmic patterns, spacious production, and melodic vocals. (Apple Music – Web Player)

TesseracT is generally more consistently progressive than Sleep Token.

You will not get the same sudden jump into pop or R&B.

What you will get is the underlying architecture that makes many of Sleep Token’s heavier passages so satisfying.

“Legion” is particularly useful because Daniel Tompkins’ vocal performance demonstrates how progressive metal can remain emotionally expressive instead of turning into an exercise in technical skill.

Best for: Fans of “Hypnosis,” “The Offering,” and Sleep Token’s rhythmic guitar work.

8. Bring Me the Horizon

Start with: “Doomed,” “Teardrops,” “Can You Feel My Heart”

Bring Me the Horizon may be the best recommendation if the thing you admire most about Sleep Token is the refusal to stay in one genre.

The band’s evolution has moved through extreme metal, metalcore, alternative rock, electronic music, and pop. Apple Music describes genre change as practically a guiding principle of Bring Me the Horizon’s career and even notes Linkin Park’s genre-crossing influence on their approach. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“Doomed” is especially useful for Sleep Token fans.

It begins atmospherically and gradually opens into something enormous.

“Teardrops” is more direct.

“Can You Feel My Heart” demonstrates how electronic production and heavy rock can occupy the same emotional space.

Sleep Token and Bring Me the Horizon do not sound identical.

They share something more important: neither band seems particularly interested in asking permission before changing styles.

Best for: Fans who enjoy Sleep Token precisely because nobody can agree what genre they are.

9. Northlane

Start with: “Clockwork,” “Carbonized,” “Echo Chamber”

Northlane is a good choice if you want Sleep Token’s electronic side pushed into something more industrial and rhythmically aggressive.

The Australian band’s modern work mixes metalcore with electronic production, progressive rhythms, and industrial textures. Apple Music highlights Northlane’s tendency to absorb outside styles into heavy music and specifically notes the electronic direction of material such as “Clockwork.” (Apple Music – Web Player)

Northlane is usually more relentless than Sleep Token.

The softer R&B and piano-ballad elements are less central.

But the sense of heavy music being rebuilt through synthesizers and production should feel familiar.

Best for: Fans of “The Summoning” who wish its crushing middle sections lasted longer.

10. Imminence

Start with: “Temptation,” “Heaven in Hiding,” “The Black”

Imminence takes emotional metalcore and adds one instrument that immediately separates it from most of the genre:

violin.

The Swedish band combines melodic metalcore with post-hardcore intensity, creating songs that can move from fragile string passages into enormous guitar-driven climaxes. (Apple Music – Web Player)

That makes them a surprisingly natural Sleep Token recommendation.

The actual sounds are different.

The emotional technique is similar.

Both groups understand that heaviness becomes much more effective when surrounded by delicacy.

“Temptation” is the easiest starting point.

Listen to how long the song is willing to build before delivering its most aggressive moments.

Best for: Fans who want Sleep Token’s drama and emotional escalation with a more explicitly metalcore foundation.

11. Leprous

Start with: “Below,” “The Sky Is Red,” “Castaway Angels”

Leprous is the choice for listeners who love Vessel’s dramatic clean vocals, unusual arrangements, and refusal to write straightforward metal songs.

The Norwegian band began in progressive metal but gradually developed a sound incorporating progressive rock, sophisticated pop, cinematic music, and metal. (Apple Music – Web Player)

That career arc makes Leprous particularly useful for Sleep Token listeners.

“The Sky Is Red” demonstrates the progressive side.

“Below” makes the vocal performance central.

“Castaway Angels” reveals how little heaviness is required for the music to remain emotionally intense.

Einar Solberg does not sing like Vessel, but both vocalists are capable of making a relatively quiet arrangement feel enormous simply through phrasing and escalation.

Best for: Fans of Sleep Token’s piano, progressive structure, and dramatic clean vocals.

12. Deftones

Start with: “Sextape,” “Change (In the House of Flies),” “Digital Bath”

Deftones is less a Sleep Token copy than one of the clearest paths toward understanding the atmosphere that surrounds much modern alternative metal.

The band has spent decades combining heavy guitar music with dreamy textures, whispered vocals, shoegaze-like layers, and sensual atmosphere. Apple Music describes White Pony as an important expansion into shoegaze and post-rock while emphasizing Chino Moreno’s haunting vocal style. (Apple Music – Web Player)

“Digital Bath” is probably the most useful starting point for a Sleep Token fan.

It is heavy without behaving like a conventional heavy song.

“Sextape” pushes further toward dreaminess.

“Change” sits between beauty and menace.

Loathe is arguably a more direct bridge between Deftones and Sleep Token, but if you enjoy the sensual and atmospheric side of modern heavy music, eventually you arrive here.

Best for: Fans of “Sugar,” “Telomeres,” and Sleep Token’s darker romantic atmosphere.

Which Band Sounds Most Like Sleep Token?

There is no perfect match.

That is partly the point.

Sleep Token’s sound works because several musical languages are competing inside it at once. Their 2025 album Even in Arcadia continued that approach, and the record reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 while extending the band’s mixture of heavy music and broader pop-oriented textures. (Apple Music – Web Player)

But if you want the closest starting points:

Bad Omens — for dark pop, electronics, and sensual vocals
Spiritbox — for beauty versus extreme heaviness
Loathe — for dreamy alternative metal
Dayseeker — for emotional vocals
VOLA — for electronics plus progressive riffs
TesseracT — for djent and rhythmic complexity
Thornhill — for atmosphere and alternative metal
Bring Me the Horizon — for constant genre changes

Bands Like Sleep Token but Heavier

Start with:

• Spiritbox
• Loathe
• Northlane
• Imminence
• TesseracT

Spiritbox is probably the strongest overall choice because the band can move between beautiful clean vocals and punishing metal without making either side feel secondary. Apple Music even lists Sleep Token directly among Spiritbox’s similar artists. (Apple Music – Web Player)

Northlane is the better choice if electronics matter.

TesseracT is better if progressive rhythms matter.

Bands Like Sleep Token but More Atmospheric

Try:

• Loathe
• Deftones
• Thornhill
• Dayseeker
• Leprous

Loathe and Deftones are particularly strong if you like Sleep Token when the guitars become hazy rather than crushing.

Dayseeker is better if vocals are the main attraction.

Leprous is best when you want progressive songwriting without sacrificing emotional intensity.

Bands Like Sleep Token With Electronic Elements

Start with:

Bad Omens, VOLA, Northlane, and Bring Me the Horizon.

All four treat electronics as part of the actual songwriting rather than decoration placed behind metal guitars. Bad Omens moves closest to dark pop, VOLA remains more progressive, Northlane pushes toward industrial intensity, and Bring Me the Horizon is willing to move almost anywhere stylistically. (Apple Music – Web Player)

The Bottom Line

The best bands like Sleep Token are the ones that understand the same central contradiction:

Heavy music does not have to be heavy every second.

Bad Omens offers dark electronic sensuality.

Spiritbox combines beauty and aggression.

Loathe creates dreamlike heaviness.

Dayseeker emphasizes emotional vocals.

Thornhill provides stylish atmospheric metal.

VOLA combines progressive riffs with electronics.

TesseracT explores the rhythmic foundation underneath Sleep Token’s heavier side.

Bring Me the Horizon shares the instinct to ignore genre boundaries.

Northlane makes the electronics more industrial.

Imminence makes the drama more orchestral.

Leprous pushes toward progressive art rock.

And Deftones offers one of the clearest older foundations for heavy music that can also feel dreamy, sensual, and strangely beautiful. (Apple Music – Web Player)

If you only try three, start with Bad Omens, Spiritbox, and Loathe.

Then listen for what you actually miss when Sleep Token ends.

If it is the voice, go to Dayseeker or Leprous.

If it is the breakdowns, move toward Spiritbox or Northlane.

If it is the atmosphere, choose Loathe or Deftones.

And if what you love most is never knowing what the next thirty seconds will sound like, Bring Me the Horizon may be the most natural place to go next.