While She Sleeps

In the organizer's words:

While She Sleeps & very Special Guests: "State of the Art" of Metalcore Big German tour through 10 cities in November

Presented by Metal Hammer and Rock Antenne

Very Special Guests: Malevolence + Thrown + Resolve

With five challenging, globally acclaimed albums, the British quintet While She Sleeps has established itself internationally as a force to be reckoned with in metalcore, repeatedly breaking out of familiar sound corsets. With skillfully composed, enormously powerful and at times intricately 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 her guitarist Sean Long and longtime collaborator Carl Bown) casts its net even wider, taking in symphonic music, hardcore, synth-rock and metal in equal measure. Yet 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 first formed in 2006, While She Sleeps were considered more of a side project - the five musicians from Sheffield were all busy in other bands when they first formed, but had liked each other since school days and shared a taste in music. The first EP "The North Stands for Nothing" was released in early 2010, and there aren't many bands that have toured Europe several times with just a handful of songs and even been invited on an extensive US tour by Bring Me The Horizon.
Things have continued at this pace ever since: their debut album "This Is the Six" was released in 2012, became 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", have also regularly toured Asia and Australia. In the short breaks between these trips, they are always working feverishly on their next work. And they continue to develop with every record, not least thanks to their intense live ethos. Since their third album "You Are We", which was entirely crowdfunded by their fans, While She Sleeps have also been in the top league of contemporary metal in the USA. With the release of their latest, 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 exciting special guests to their concerts. For a total of eleven shows in ten cities, While She Sleeps have once again invited three rousing acts: their Sheffield hardcore colleagues Malevolence, Swedish metalcore whips Thrown and French post-hardcore rockers Resolve.