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WHILE SHE SLEEPS

Sleeps Society

SLEEPS BROTHERS / SPINEFARM

Steel City metalcore champions embrace their evolution

While She Sleeps had just come off their most successful cycle yet. 2017’s saw them nail their distinctive brand of metalcore – a perfect blend of melodic hooks, turbocharged riffs, and huge gang-chant choruses – and finally, it seemed as though those long-touted ‘future of metal’ predictions were falling into place. So the band’s decision to follow it by changing up their sound on 2019’s genre-mashing was a risky one, introducing rapping, choirs, electronics and more melody, and garnering mixed reactions

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