While She Sleeps embrace their past traumas in the thought-provoking and cathartic new single NERVOUS feat. Simon Neil.

NERVOUS is the latest single taken from the band’s forthcoming fifth album, SLEEPS SOCIETY, set for release on April 16th via Sleeps Brothers / Spinefarm Records.

Delving into the dark side of life, While She Sleeps face mental health struggles and touch upon the feelings of anxiety and depression in their newest single. Rooted in honesty, it’s a heart-rending yet therapeutic journey, soaring high with bone-crunching riffs, haunting electronics and soul-piercing vocals. Featuring Simon Neil from Biffy Clyro on guest vocals, the track sheds light on emotional vulnerability and fragility of the human existence in the heartbreakingly beautiful way. A snapshot of the band’s personal philosophies, the song offers comfort and a word of encouragement to anyone who needs it.

Speaking on the new single, WSS explain:

‘NERVOUS’ is about accepting your emotions, fears, pains, anxiety, depression – not only accepting them but owning them and becoming one with them completely. It’s about being proud of all our emotions. The song is literally telling you to BE nervous, be scared and be in pain. By this I mean a lot of our pain comes from the idea that there’s me on the one hand and the pain on the other. So when the pain arrives this “me” is somehow trying to get away from said pain. When we really think this through with clarity we inevitably see its a futile endeavour. The moment we realise this, we can stop fighting and running away and we can begin the healing process by feeling the emotions as if we wanted them to be there in the first place. Once you stop fighting and pushing the feelings away, you realise that most of, if not all of, the pain was caused by this attempt to split ourselves in two. Most of the pain was caused by the fear of the pain itself and the attempt to get away from it. It can actually be a good thing to feel these emotions fully and experience that journey of acceptance. If we just sit a little longer with the pain, fully go into the dark, feeling it with every cell of our being, there is a chance of something miraculous to occur for the individual. What do you have to lose? This is what ‘NERVOUS’ is about.