Sheffield metalcore flagmen While She Sleeps announced they are coming back with a brand new single ‘You Are All You Need‘ set for worldwide premiere tomorrow. The track is expected to air for the first time on Daniel P. Carter’s ‘Rock Show‘ on BBC Radio 1 on Sunday, 7 February, from 9 pm available to listen live or catch-up online after the official broadcast. The new song is the second promotional release ahead of the band’s hugely awaited fifth studio record Sleeps Society scheduled for 16 April 2021, and available to pre-order on standard and deluxe CD, special colored LP and limited glow in the dark vinyl alongside various merch and bundles on their official web store or via Impericon.
‘You Are All You Need‘ comes out exactly fours montsh since the premiere of the album title track ‘Sleeps Society‘ that caused quite the hype back in October 2020 with the foundation of While She Sleep’s self-sustainable Patreon membership system. With the exception of their late-2019 standalone track ‘Faker’s Plague‘, this was their first music since their previous record So What? (2019) and coming right on time towards the end of the traditional two-years album production cycle.
NEW MUSIC – WORLDWIDE PREMIERE OF ‘YOU ARE ALL YOU NEED’ SUNDAY 9PM GMT – @Radio1RockShow @DanielPCarter #youareallyouneed pic.twitter.com/JtXBPfi9kB
— WHILE SHE SLEEPS (@whileshesleeps) February 5, 2021
Subscribers of While She Sleeps’s Patreon profile were already treated to sneak peak of the new single’s lyrics as well as exclusive Behind The Song videos with Aaran McKenzie (bass), Sean Long (lead guitar), Adam ‘Sav’ Savage (drums) and Lawrence ‘Loz’ Taylor (vocals). The Sleeps Society is going strong after smashing their ambitious target within the first two weeks, and maintaining a solid folling of over 2000 paid members. Since its inception back in October 2020 the band has provided almost 200 unique posts covering video tutorials and production sessions, photoshoots, audio teasers and early access to upcoming gig tickets.
In addition, While She Sleeps launched the official Sleeps Brothers Podcast with first episode revealed on 7 December with an introduction, update on the Sleeps Society and an overview of the unusual COVID-stricken 2020 and its impact on the band and their followers. The second episode premiered last Monday 1 February, available to stream on Spotify and launched with the following message:
“Come and join us on a zoom chat all about what we’ve been up to, The impact we feel Brexit will have on the music industry and we talk about some cool surprises happening within the Sleeps Society RIGHT NOW! We also chat to one of our Patrons to answer some questions and find out Loz wanted to be a Priest when he was younger! We chat about what music we have been jammin’ this month and give some of the talented members of the Sleeps Society a shout out!“
Sleeps Society is set to be While She Sleeps’ eight music release in the last fifteenth years (counting their three EPs between 2006 and 2010), easily making them one of the most dedicated and hard-working metal acts in the UK. Ever since revealing their second studio album Brainwashed from March 2015, the Sheffield quintet have dropped new records with clockwork precision every two years, meticulously following it with You Are We from April 2017, So What? from March 2019 and now an upcoming premiere on 16 April 2021.
Although looking less and less likely with the ongoing government restrictions and endless lockdowns, While She Sleeps are still hoping to go ahead with their planned UK tour in May. The band has thirteen shows booked, starting in Glasgow on 2 May and ending in Brighton on 23 May, including three separate dates at Leeds’ The Key and another three in Camden’s Underworld. Tickets and information available here.
