While She Sleeps Announce Autumn Headline UK Tour And New Album Trailer Video - Watch Now
Tuesday, 12 June 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
Winners of the Kerrang! award for Best British Newcomer - Sheffield based metalcore crew While She Sleeps are excited to announced a headline tour of the UK this Autumn.
If things feel as though they’re reaching boiling point at present, things are set to go supernova following the release of ‘This Is The Six’ (out August 6th). A tour de force of everything that’s great from across the landscapes hard rock and metal, it’s a genre-defying masterpiece that draws from the contemporary intensity and unshakeable authenticity of post-hardcore, the progressive song-structure and unrelenting aggression of metal, a keen ear for melody and a raw impenetrable passion that makes it relatable to anyone with a love for guitar driven rock music.
There will be a limited edition box set only available through the bands official webstore at www.wssofficial.com. This will include a CD, behind the scenes DVD, exclusive T-shirt and signed poster and other special items only available in this package. - While She Sleeps will also be performing at the following festivals over the summer.
June 17th - Interlaken, Switzerland, Greenfield Festival
June 23rd - Dessel, Belguim, Graspop
June 29th - Tunbridge Wells, UK, The Forum ( with Feed The Rhino)
June 30th - Middlesborough, UK, Make A Scene Festival, Teeside University
July 7th - Shepton Mallet, Relentless NASS Festival
July 14th - Herk-De-Stad, Belguim, Rock Herk Festival
Since the release of their mini-album, ‘The North Stands For Nothing’, in the summer of 2010, While She Sleeps have been on a trailblazing path that has seen them become one of the fastest rising bands on the UK hard rock and metal circuits for some years. From a sold out headline tour, their tent-swelling set at last year’s Sonisphere festival, venues on this year’s prestigious Kerrang! tour having queues of people snaked around the block so that fans could get in to see Sleeps open the bill, critical acclaim across the pages of Kerrang! Metal Hammer and Rock Sound and regular plays on Radio 1, Scuzz and Kerrang! TV, the Sheffield natives have rapidly and justifiably become one of the highest regarded rock bands in Britain. “It feels like we’re building an army and that the people that have started following us are as much a part of this as we are,” says Mat. “We’ve felt like respect’s been building and the crowds are getting bigger and people telling us songs have helped them get through tough times reassures you why you do this and we want to take it to as many people as we can.”
Fuelled by a militant DIY punk rock ethic (the band design their own artwork and t-shirts, send their own merch by hand and insisted that only the members of the band performed every last note on the record), while success has been forthcoming at a staggering rate in Britain, Sleeps have already got an eye on world domination.
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