Take Me Back to Eden
by Sleep Token
User Score
8.9

Universal acclaim- based on 35 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 30 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 35
  3. Negative: 2 out of 35
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  1. shrimpscampy
    May 20, 2023
    1
    I don’t mind the experimentation of the album, but honestly it almost seems like they are trying to sell out already and they just got started. Hate to see it because they genuinely have had my interest piqued since day one for being so different but the auto tune and beat machine doesn’t do well for them, luckily Vessel has good enough vocals and lyrics to make it listenable, but I feelI don’t mind the experimentation of the album, but honestly it almost seems like they are trying to sell out already and they just got started. Hate to see it because they genuinely have had my interest piqued since day one for being so different but the auto tune and beat machine doesn’t do well for them, luckily Vessel has good enough vocals and lyrics to make it listenable, but I feel like with the first few song releases for this album it was overall a scam for the rest and overhyped myself for no reason.… Expand
  2. Rock3r
    May 22, 2023
    10
    This album transits magically through diverse music genres, it is like riding an intense emotional rollercoaster of feelings carefully built by a talented broken soul.
  3. saltyshaunz
    May 21, 2023
    10
    Incredible. The album feels like a journey from start to finish. Euclid had me in tears.
  4. Vixter1_
    May 20, 2023
    10
    It's as great as it could get. Emotional, heavy, uplifting, this record gives us a full display of what Sleep Token can do. Songs like The Summoning, Vore, Ascensionism, Take Me Back to Eden or Euclid gives us one of the best projects of this year.
  5. CharHandles
    May 21, 2023
    10
    Those who have followed Sleep Token know that Take Me Back to Eden (TMBTE) is the end of a beautiful trilogy. The album spans a wide array of styles and sounds, which is refreshing in the rock and metal genre. All the members contribute to haunting highs and guttural lows. Across the three albums, this is the darkest in style, themes, and tonality. Yet it ends on a high with Euclid, a hopeThose who have followed Sleep Token know that Take Me Back to Eden (TMBTE) is the end of a beautiful trilogy. The album spans a wide array of styles and sounds, which is refreshing in the rock and metal genre. All the members contribute to haunting highs and guttural lows. Across the three albums, this is the darkest in style, themes, and tonality. Yet it ends on a high with Euclid, a hope for the future.

    There are many theories as to the meaning behind the songs, the albums, and all the lore, but ultimately what they've made is a masterpiece. It's ethereal and it's been a journey to be able to listen and experience it.

    If you're thinking of listening to it, do it. Go in with an open mind and see if you like it and how it makes you feel. Some will, some won't, and that's okay!    … Expand
  6. nickha0
    May 21, 2023
    10
    An incredible realization of all the musical styles Sleep Token have been cultivating up to this point, and much more. Each song deserves a listen for a different reason.
  7. Ripjaw564
    May 21, 2023
    10
    amazing album, not a single bad song. Sleep Token is like no other, and their music is the best I have ever heard.
  8. _Immortal_
    May 26, 2023
    10
    Most creative band. Sounds refreshing compared to how generic a lot of other bands are becoming
  9. JanoH
    May 25, 2023
    9
    Amazing album, this in art ! ! ! Beautiful songs ! ! ! Deservedly 10.......
  10. B4tm4n
    Aug 5, 2023
    10
    This album is truly a one of a kind masterpiece. The whole album is a roller coaster of emotions and hit me in a way that no other album ever has before. 10/10 album
  11. kasdeja
    May 23, 2023
    10
    This is art. The storytelling, the lyricism, the metaphors, the musicality. This is what music is supposed to be like. It's an experience.

    Sleep Token exceeds expectations, and their creativity knows no bounds. There are no skips in this record.

    This is easily the best album I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.
  12. ButcherShy
    May 23, 2023
    10
    Despite the fact I've only relatively recently discovered this band, they've managed to make quite the impact, especially with the release of this album. Take Me Back To Eden is by far, a masterclass of an album, the genre blending is beyond that of what most others could achieve, and the vocals are hauntingly beautiful, and the lyrics to each song are deep, meaningful and oh so very relatable.
  13. postmeta
    May 25, 2023
    9
    This album is a work of cheese-lined brilliance. Honestly, if it were not executed with so much commitment and excellence, it might have blown up in their faces as a complete cringe-fest. They do bring absolute commitment, however, and the excellence shows through the bulk of the tracks on this album. Feel free to revel in the over-serious bombastic lyrics, vocal stylings, and pompousThis album is a work of cheese-lined brilliance. Honestly, if it were not executed with so much commitment and excellence, it might have blown up in their faces as a complete cringe-fest. They do bring absolute commitment, however, and the excellence shows through the bulk of the tracks on this album. Feel free to revel in the over-serious bombastic lyrics, vocal stylings, and pompous musical landscapes. When it is done this well, it just works, and I love it! I had no real regard for Sleep Token's previous work, but this is on an absolutely different level. I expect that this album may well one day be regarded as the album the broke the damn between metal and the wider musical landscape.… Expand
  14. Sankethvish
    Jun 6, 2023
    10
    Best album of the decade! A different change of entire music industry. Whole album is a pure magic
  15. PoisonKing1994
    Aug 28, 2023
    3
    Worst Album I’ve Heard this year
    Albums better than there debut and sophomore outputs but that’s not saying much…

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Metascore
60

Mixed or average reviews - based on 7 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. Sputnikmusic
    Aug 1, 2023
    10
    This band’s tedium, their mercilessly polished tones, their big bucks mastering, their humourless refusal to spotlight any glorious points of absurdity within their own writing, their algorithmic combination of the most derivative parts of how many separate genres into a no less unremarkable whole - it all makes for one of the most irksome feints at artistry I’ve heard this decade and feels oriented towards an impressionable audience with sickeningly calculated precision.
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  2. AllMusic
    Jun 2, 2023
    50
    After three or four of these hard-to-follow stylistic roadmaps, however, the excitement quickly becomes exhaustion, and Sleep Token's overly-polished sound starts to feel more overwrought than enjoyable.
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  3. The Line of Best Fit
    May 19, 2023
    60
    It may not be revolutionary in its music or pantomime, with some evident missteps. Still, the secret society is doing a world of good by exposing a gamut of fans to the many genre-bending tricks they possess.
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