
In “Is the future of pop…heavy metal?!”, we talk about how Sleep Token may be doing more than just shaking up the genre—they might be changing who it’s for. With metal long written off as music for aging white guys, Sleep Token’s masked mystique and genre-mashing sound could be widening the tent. If rock reclaims a spot on the Hot 100 in 2025, it won’t sound—or look—anything like it did in 2001.
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