NEW NOISE
SLEEP WAKER
Experimental metallers mine the horror of night terrors for inspiration
WORDS: DANNII LEIVERS
PICTURE: ERIC OVERWAY
WHEN SLEEP WAKER drummer and songwriter Frankie Mish was six years old, a demon frequently haunted his dreams. “I had issues with insomnia and sleep paralysis,” he says. “I started taking Melatonin to get deeper sleep, but it would just make my dreams weird. I had one reoccurring one where, if I woke up and my door was cracked or open, I could see something in the crack of the door. I felt it sitting on my chest and it felt like I was sinking into the bed. I was being pulled down into dirt and it felt like suffocating…”