While She Sleeps plus Special Guests - Malevolence, Thrown, Resolve

With five challenging, globally acclaimed albums, the British quintet While She Sleeps has established itself internationally as a major force in metalcore, continually breaking out of familiar sound corsets. With artfully composed, enormously powerful and, at times, tricky progressive songs, the band from Sheffield defines what modern metalcore should sound like today. But even in a career full of bold, powerful steps, their work "Self Hell", a concept album about mental illness, released at the end of March, is something special. While She Sleeps' sixth long player (produced by their guitarist Sean Long and their long-time companion Carl Bown) casts its net even wider, taking symphonic music, hardcore, synth rock and metal into account equally. But despite all these styles, the band never loses sight of their ability to compose confident, stadium-ready anthems - nor their focus on advocating for the mental health of all.

When they were founded in 2006, While She Sleeps was seen as more of a side project by those involved - the five musicians from Sheffield were all busy in other bands when they first formed, but they had liked each other since their school days and shared a similar taste in music. The first EP, "The North Stands for Nothing", was released in early 2010, and there are probably not many bands that have gone on multiple European tours with just a handful of songs and have even been invited on an extensive US tour by Bring Me The Horizon.

They have continued at this pace ever since: their debut album "This Is the Six" was released in 2012, it was a chart success and won several awards. They were invited to the VANS Warped Tour twice, toured Europe and the USA several times, and since their second album "Brainwashed" they have also regularly toured Asia and Australia. In the short breaks between these trips they are always working feverishly on the next album. And they develop further with each album, not least thanks to their intensive live ethos. Since their third album "You Are We", which was financed entirely via crowdfunding by their fans, While She Sleeps have also been part of the top league of contemporary metal in the USA. With the release of their current, sixth album "Self Hell", the Sheffield band's success story continues as expected.

An additional incentive to attend their uncompromisingly energetic live shows is their habit of inviting other exciting special guests to their concerts. For the total of eleven shows in ten cities, While She Sleeps have again invited three rousing acts: their Sheffield hardcore colleagues Malevolence, the Swedish metalcore whips Thrown and the French post-hardcore band Resolve.