Founded: 2006
Location: United Kingdom
While She Sleeps are a British metalcore band from Sheffield. Formed in 2006, the group consists of vocalist Lawrence Taylor, guitarists Sean Long and Mat Welsh, bassist Aaran McKenzie and drummer Adam Savage. They are currently signed to their own label Sleeps Brothers in the UK and in collaboration with Spinefarm Records in the US and UNFD in Australia. They have released three EPs, And This Is Just the Start, Split and The North Stands for Nothing, and five studio albums, This Is the Six, Brainwashed, You Are We, So What? and Sleeps Society. They received the Best British Newcomer award at the Kerrang! Awards 2012. The group has maintained the same line-up since its formation, with vocalist Taylor being the only bandmate who is not an original member. Despite this, he has still appeared on every release apart from the group's first two EPs.
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“It’s more fun to be open to see what we create here... let's try and throw sh*t at the wall and see what we're enjoying,” vocalist Lawrence “Loz” Taylor tells The Music.
'"Another enjoyable and memorable evening of heavy music in Melbourne.
Not gonna lie, this was a bucket list interview for me and we had a bloody awesome chat. Thanks Loz for your time, pick up a ticket to the SLEEPS SOCIETY tour with Loathe & Mirrors NOW!
Celebrating their fifth album 'Sleeps Society'
That's an accurate album title.
"Punters from the back start running to the front in a never-ending rotation of moshing as the curtain drops for In Hearts Wake."
Are their hearts really, truly in this?
"... There's still sufficient moments of bristling metalcore intensity and gang chants to sate mosh fiends."
KYS Vs. While She Sleeps.
"We spy a broken black brolly raised skyward within the whirlpool of the circle pit and pray it doesn't take someone's eye out."