Metal Anarchy

While She Sleeps have shared a new short film for their song “To The Flowers.“ That track is from their new album “Self Hell,“ which will be released on March 15.

The band commented:

“We have spent the last 2 months making this short film. In an age of fast content and clickbait material, we wanted to slow things down and go back to that thing we all still crave deep down. Something real. Something that takes time and something that isn’t a means to an end. The over stimulation is taking over our creativity and is becoming a battle for every creative person. This is our answer to that feeling.

Without understanding our own capacity for the negative we can never understand what it means to be positive. This song is not about philosophising our dark side but knowing it is within us all and needs to be recognised. Sometimes we put our demons to the side for others, which is both courageous and risky. Something to which we can all relate.
We’re all high as the gods and as low as the demons.

We intended to make a short film that encompasses the real emotions of relationships, grief, love, death & pain. Shot and edited completely in house, by all of us in While She Sleeps, ‘To the Flowers‘ ebbs and flows through an entendre of tragedy. This was a huge project to undertake and we have poured every ounce of our creative energy into directing this piece & had an amazing time working on the film.

(Plus it’s got that sick lead in it that you all keep going on about)”

Guitarist Sean Long continued:

“This song means a lot to us. As much as we love a good breakdown and heavy riff, a lot of our passion lies within emotive musical pieces. This song has nearly brought us all to tears multiple times simply because it touches something in us that we hold very dear. A pain we all know and have felt down to our deepest core. The essence of our personal pain expressed in music is what the band is all about. Talking about the things we know are difficult but necessary. The working title was called ‘radiohead’ and that should help to understand the feeling it gave us when writing it.

This contains the ‘double whammy’ that I stumbled across just before the song was finished. It went insanely viral when I posted it online so I just had to get it in the song. People have been saying it’s one of the greatest lead guitar parts of all time, I’ll take it.”

Vocalist Loz Taylor added:

“‘To The Flowers‘ is emotional, tragic, and real life. We intended to make a short film that encompasses the real emotions of relationships, grief, love, death, and pain. Shot by the members of While She Sleeps, ‘To The Flowers‘ ebbs and flows through an entendre of tragedy. This was a huge project to undertake, and we have poured our creative energy into directing this piece. We had a wicked time working on the film. This will hit home.”