While She Sleeps have teamed up with Revolver to premiere the video for their new song “Death Toll,” a bonus track off the This Is the Six Deluxe Digital Edition, which will be available April 23 via The End/Search & Destroy/Sony.
The band just wrapped up their first ever tour of North America with Parkway Drive, The World Alive, and Veil Of Maya, and will return to the U.S. in June to partake in the Van’s Warped Tour.
Fore more on While She Sleeps, visit WSSofficial.com, Facebook.com/WhileSheSleeps, and Twitter.com/WhileSheSleeps.
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Leading up to the end of the year, Revolver has asked some of our favorite artists to pick their Top Albums of 2012 and tell us why each record rules. Here, Austin Dickinson (pictured left), vocalist of the metalcore band Rise to Remain and son of Iron Maiden singer Bruce, selects his faves.
5. Lamb Of God, Resolution
“This has been a pretty monolithic year for Lamb Of God, not to mention a whirlwind of mixed feelings for themselves, their fans, and all those who work with them. I’m a massive fan of bands really nurturing their own sound and progression, and this battering ram of an album takes their previous album, Wrath, amongst others, and completely turns it up a couple notches. The riffs, the lyrics, the aggression, and the water-tight, groovy drumming completes this title into what I feel is their best effort to date. Go, Lamb of fucking God.”
4. While She Sleeps, This Is The Six
“This is an example of a group who truly ‘pull it off.’ This album rules: It’s heavy, it’s diverse, but it’s also very truly in its element. They don’t suddenly dim the lights and start singing about how much they love someone. It’s high octane, no holds barred, blazing anger straight from a band that knows its heart as well as its way around their respective instruments. Watch out for these boys: They can drink and they can fucking play.”
3. The Safety Fire, Grind The Ocean
“Rise to Remain would not be the band we are today without The Safety Fire. That is a fact. Rise to Remain very much grew up around this band, and they have helped us, amongst others, out massively. But somehow, we managed to put out City Of Vultures before they put out this stunning debut, and I think they did one on us. They knew the whole time that this album was going to blow everything else out of the water. So they let us walk in to a trap so that they could totally blow us up with their mustaches and their funny tunings. Fuck The Safety Fire. And buy this goddamn fucking incredible album.”
2. Young Guns, Bones
“I love Young Guns, I have loved Young Guns, and I have a great feeling that I will continue to love Young Guns. One of the major things that I dig about this album is the ambition behind it. Every single song is bursting with some sort of idea, whether it’s having an archetypal ballad or a diverse monument of hard-rock glory. There is so much to offer on this sophomore effort from Young Guns, and I’m stoked to call them, not only my friends, but world-beating contenders–from High Wycombe.”
1. Deftones, Koi No Yokan
“I love this record for a world of reasons and the strongest one is probably that, for the first time, this is the Deftones truly acknowledging themselves as a band that has been imprinted on the face of alternative metal for years. It’s got hints of every single album they done so far, and it still pushes the envelope in ways we haven’t heard them do yet. For a band to accomplish something with such ease and flow is astounding, especially when it’s following a record as captivating as Diamond Eyes was. Awesome record, awesome band.”
Leading up to the end of the year, Revolver has asked some of our favorite artists to pick their Top Albums of 2012 and tell us why each record rules. Here, Anders Fridén (pictured left), vocalist of the metal band In Flames, selects his faves.
5. Torche, Harmonicraft
“I guess I’ll never see a new Handsome album but, this is a awesome and great substitute.”
4. Baroness, Yellow & Green
“Been a fan since I heard Red album. This is a hard, heavy, sludgy, melodic piece of art.”
3. While She Sleeps, This Is the Six
“Heavy, melodic, and smart.”
2. Deftones, Koi No Yokan
“The best album from the Sacramento boys since the fantastic White Pony album.”
1. Witchcraft, Legend
“Fantastic!!! The best thing coming from Sweden–well, since us.”
With nearly 70,000 votes cast overall for our Album for the Week poll, you elected Finland’s HIM as the winners with their XX: Two Decades of Love Metal compilation. Check out the top five vote-getters below:
1. HIM – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal
2. Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon
3. Davey Suicide – Put Your Trust In Suicide EP
4. While She Sleeps – This Is the Six
5. Isis – Temporal
Stay tuned for this week’s poll, which will be live on RevolverMag.com Wednesday, November 14. Until then, you can check out HIM’s “Strange World” off XX: Two Decades of Love Metal below:
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It’s Tuesday–the day that music comes out–and this one sees shit from All That Remains, Geoff Tate, HIM, and more out in stores. Check out the list of releases below and let us know which ones you have already or are planning to pick up.
- All That Remains – A War You Cannot Win
- Anaal Nathrakh – Vanitas
- Bane – The Acausal Fire
- Corrosion of Conformity – Eye for an Eye reissue
- Davey Suicide – Put Your Trust In Suicide EP
- Doomsday – Doomsday
- Doro – Raise Your Fist
- Dragged Into Sunlight – Widowmaker
- Geoff Tate – Kings & Thieves
- Graveyard – Lights Out
- HIM – XX: Two Decades of Love Metal
- Isis – Temporal
- Iwrestledabearonce – A Beary Scary Movie DVD
- Megadeth – Countdown To Extinction: 20th Anniversary Edition
- Otep – Sounds Like Armageddon
- The Seeking – Yours Forever
- Strife – Witness a Rebirth
- Tiamat – The Scarred People
- Underoath – Anthology 1999-2013
- While She Sleeps – This Is the Six
Every Tuesday–the day that new music comes out–we will be listing the hard-rock and metal releases that hit stores, and every Wednesday we will be offering you, the fans, the chance to pick the Album of the Week. Below, check out the albums, EPs, singles, and DVDs that came out this week; pick your favorite, and feel free to vote as many times as you want. Voting ends on Monday, October 22, at noon, when the results will be announced.
UPDATE: The poll is closed. Thanks for your vote. To view the results, click here.
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Sheffield, England, is the hometown to metalcore band While She Sleeps. As a city that earned worldwide reputation for its steel production during the Industrial Revolution, it became known as the “Steel City.” But sometimes reputations are not so accurate. So Revolver had bassist Aaran Mckenzie–whose band will release its new album, This Is the Six, on November 6–tell us the top five misconceptions about the British.
1. Posh Accents
“Generally people have the misconception that everyone from England are posh and well-spoken. Not really the case. If you’ve ever been to anywhere in Yorkshire you’ll know what I mean. People from other countries often find it hard to understand us.”
2. Knowing the Queen
“Everyone thinks we know the queen. It’s really just a joke that people make about us–like, we relate other cultures to certain things. But, no, I have never had tea and crumpets with her.”
3. Brutal Teeth
“One of the main misconceptions is that every British person has bad teeth. For example, when a cartoon like The Simpsons or Family Guy perceive an English man, they always have crooked teeth. To be fair, our teeth really aren’t that bad.”
4. Love of Tea
“The fact that we drink a lot of tea isn’t 100% true. I don’t drink tea and none of us in the band drink tea every single day. We drink tea like anyone else, but we don’t live off it.”
5. Fish and Chips
“We’re quite known for being the fish-and-chips culture. We probably eat it a lot more than anyone else, but it’s really the coasts that are known for their ‘chippys.’”
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