WHILE SHE SLEEPS
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SLEEPS BROTHERS / SPINEFARM
Steel City metalcore champions embrace their evolution
While She Sleeps: less severity, more sincerity
THREE YEARS AGO, While She Sleeps had just come off their most successful cycle yet. 2017’s You Are We 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 So What? was a risky one, introducing rapping, choirs, electronics and more melody, and garnering mixed reactions from some fans who thought they knew what this band were about.