Sleep Token have divided the world of metal, some seeing their use of influences from outside of the genre as groundbreaking, others as heretical. From lyrics delivered by frontman Vessel that address non-metal, and often personal, issues to the technical precision and genre-mining of the beat beneath them from ‘II’, they are an enigmatic prospect. The British band also obscure their identities by playing masked, and have largely avoided engaging with both fans and the music press.

FOH engineer Thom Pike has been with the band since their third gig in 2018. For most recent tour, his mixing desk of choice was a DiGiCo Quantum 338, with Samuel Schmitt, a long-time DiGiCo user, also using a Quantum 338 for his monitor mix.

Evergreen Enterprise Experience has opened Studio One at its expansive music production and postproduction campus in Burbank, California. Now the studio’s flagship production room at the revitalised Enterprise Studios, it features a 72-channel Solid State Logic Duality Fuse SuperAnalogue mixing console.

The move follows Evergreen Studios earlier installation of the first Duality Fuse in the world in Studio A, when it opened in 2021.

Two packed concerts marked the official opening of Assembly, the former site of St. Joseph’s Catholic School, now reinvented as the newest live events space in Kingston in upstate New York. The venue is the latest in a string of projects designed to inject fresh energy into the arts and music culture of the Hudson Valley.

Behind it are event promoters Drew Frankel and Peter Himberger of Impact Concerts, who partnered with CB Developers to purchase and renovate the space with the aim of creating a thriving centre for small to mid-sized events that could serve as a community space for live music, dance, theatre and film screenings. For a sound quality to match the vision, Assembly founders brought in acoustic design specialist WSDG.

The Mazowsze National Folk Song and Dance Ensemble has transformed its 600-seat concert hall into a fully immersive 360 performance space, becoming Poland’s first to combine L-ISA technology with L-Acoustics’ newest L Series progressive ultra-dense line array loudspeakers.

The transformation, themed New Sound of Tradition, centres on an L-Acoustics L-ISA Immersive Hyperreal Sound system that brings Poland’s rich musical traditions to life with new-found clarity and depth.

Billed as an ‘evening of music and solidarity’, the FireAid Benefit Concert held at the Intuit Dome and Kia Forum at the end of January saw 35 artists perform in a live broadcast to raise millions for LA Wildfires recovery efforts.

This gathering of artists, live production experts, stars of screen, local philanthropists and music fans was a personal project for Clair Global’s Meegan Holmes, General Manager of Clair’s Sun Valley location, as her family were among the 100,000 people displaced for weeks during the emergency evacuation.