By hiding their faces, metal bands maximize the emotional punch of their music
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In 2024, along with 20,000 others, I attended a sold-out metal show in Manchester. Unlike most concerts at the Co-op Live Arena, however, none of us in the packed-out venue knew who we were actually seeing. The band was Sleep Token—a masked and anonymous collective formed in London in 2016, now selling out arenas across […]