Sleeping With Sirens have released surprise new single Paralyzed ahead of forthcoming eighth album An Ending In Itself, due June 12 via Rise Records.
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The track pushes the band further back toward the heavier edges of their sound, pairing abrasive riffs and driving verses with the soaring choruses that have defined Sleeping With Sirens since the early 2010s. There are clear nods to bands like Thrice, The Used and Haste the Day throughout, something frontman Kellin Quinn openly acknowledges.
“Paralyzed is one of the heaviest songs on the new record,” Quinn says. “It’s aggressive, emotional, and captures a side of us we’ve always loved exploring.”
Produced by Will Yip, the single continues the direction introduced by previous release Forever/Always while reconnecting with the restless energy of 2011 breakthrough album Let’s Cheers to This. According to Quinn, the new album acts both as a continuation of recent records How It Feels to Be Lost and Complete Collapse while also revisiting the band’s earlier instincts.
More than fifteen years into their career, Sleeping With Sirens still sound most convincing when they stop worrying about where they fit. Paralyzed doesn’t reinvent the band’s formula, but it does sharpen it: emotional, heavy and direct.
