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Damocles
Sleep Token
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- Album
- Even In Arcadia
- Released
- 2025
- Genres
- progressive metal, metalcore
- Length
- 4:25
- Tempo
- 156 BPM
- Label
- Sleep Token/RCA Records
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About this song
"Damocles" is the third single from Sleep Token's 2025 album, Even in Arcadia. It was first teased right after the single "Caramel" aired, and its YouTube music video opens with a binary-coded message that translates to the song's title.
What it's about
The song continues the story of "Caramel" by shifting from outside threats to inner dread, focusing on the fear of losing his place in music through abandonment or disbandment, and of being left without his Vessel persona. It is framed as a sword hanging over a throne by a single thread, with fame and fans as the things that could cut it.
Summary written with AI, based on the song's page on Genius.
Fun facts
- Written by Vessel and Vessel II.
- Produced by Carl Bown.