Name: Self Hell
Brand: While She Sleeps

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

SPINE800464P

Colour

Silver

Colour details

Silver Nugget

Discogs ID

Format multiplier

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2024-03-29

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

5401148004649

Total Cap

Silver LP

SPINE800470P

White

White and Black Marble

Extended format: Yes

5401148004700

White LP

SPINE800471P

Blue

Curacao Blue Transparent Vinyl

5401148004717

Blue LP

SPINE800462P

5401148004625

Artist

While She Sleeps

Genre GB

Metal

Label GB

Spinefarm

Metalcore band from Sheffield, England. Formed in 2006.
While She Sleeps is a metalcore band hailing from Sheffield, England. With their powerful and energetic sound, they have become a force to be reckoned with in the music industry. Since their formation in 2006, the band has maintained a consistent lineup consisting of Sean Long on lead guitar and backing vocals, Mat Welsh on rhythm guitar, piano, and vocals, Aaran McKenzie on bass and backing vocals, Adam "Sav" Savage on drums and percussion, and Lawrence "Loz" Taylor as the lead vocalist since 2009. While She Sleeps' dedication to their craft has earned them a loyal fanbase worldwide.
Past member Jordan Widdowson contributed his talents as the lead vocalist during the early years of While She Sleeps before parting ways in 2009. Despite this change in lineup, the band continued to evolve musically while staying true to their signature metalcore style.

Spinefarm is a Finnish record label that was founded in 1990 by Riku Pääkkönen. Originally starting as a mailorder and distribution company for rock and metal releases, Spinefarm quickly expanded to release albums from Finnish metal bands. In 2002, Spinefarm became part of Universal Music when Universal Music Oy became the majority shareholder of Spin-Farm Oy, the record company that runs Spinefarm. In 2005, Universal bought the entire company and merged it with Universal Music Oy on December 31st, 2014.

Although founder Riku Pääkkönen left the company in 2011, he continued working on [l532289], a sub-label of Spinefarm. With two regional offices outside of Finland - Spinefarm UK in London and Spinefarm US in New York - they cover other territories through Caroline/Universal Music or local distribution partners.

Known for their expertise in distribution, Spinefarm has been credited under their name for various releases. With their rich history and strong ties to the metal music scene, Spinefarm remains an influential force within the industry.

Newest Listed Items

In a strange way, this feels like a second debut, we have the same excitement and nervousness around releasing it, like it’s the first step of the band's career. Our youthful inspirations have taken the forefront on this record. We find the scene that we’re associated with overcrowded, diluted, and for the most part uninspiring. This isn’t an admission of some cocky attitude towards our ‘superior’ music, more so that we’ve been drawing inspiration from an array of misfit artists far from where you would usually pigeonhole While She Sleeps rather than the typical metalcore movement that surrounds heavy music. Each member has brought in a different perspective of inspiration so far apart in genre that it has left us with a very odd and satisfying sonic. To name a few, Kendrick Lamar, Aphex Twin, Prodigy, Fat Boy Slim, Limp Bizkit, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Bicep, Rammstein, AFI, Janes Addiction, Placebo, Deafheaven, Alice In Chains.

That old-school buzz of the Brit-pop scene in the 90s has somehow made its way back home into our melodies and the whole swagger of the album. We were all brought up in mining villages and considered common lower-class folk. As kids, we all grew up on the ‘sounds of England’, the sound of nothing to lose and everything to gain.

On past Sleeps records the weight of the writing process rested with only a few members. Self Hell is a reimagined version of the band where the combination of all of our childhood inspirations has resurfaced and animated this whole album. We have found an incredibly powerful and creative way to make everyone’s essence and vision find a path in each song. This has turned the music into a free-spirited collage of each member's desires and ideas thus creating a real-life musical fusion that has kept this entire process alive from start to finish.

.The name of the album is the foundation of how we view ourselves and the world. Everyone has a subjective experience like no other. Yet the constant that binds us IS the differences between us and the fact that we are all suffering in our own way. Don’t be too quick to judge and demonize, your time will come for redemption or damnation. We are all on the path of Self Hell which will lead us to either our liberation or our own demise. So don’t be a dick and stop moaning, life is hard enough and there’s enough misery to go around without adding to it through unconscious action.

As friends and humans, we keep our mortality close to our chest in this band. This allows our carefree attitude to continue to grow. We aren’t here forever and While She Sleeps will continue to keep the world guessing on what we will do next. Not only for the fans but this is a spiritual venture that we must keep alive, moving, and constantly in flux. We do this by scaring ourselves with things we are not supposed to do. Every. Single. Day.

Self Hell

Music GB