Brainwashed is a masterpiece. A modern classic. A heroic return. A monumental victory.While She Sleeps have had a difficult couple of years full of personal battles and uncertain times but luckily they have pulled through and it seems they are stronger than ever. 2012's This Is The Six was an incredible album full of songs proving Sheffield's latest metal crew to be big contenders. What Brainwashed does is shit all over that notion; these lads are no longer contenders, they are champions and deservingly so.
The Divide, album opener, is 52 seconds of muffled voices getting louder and more intense, a metaphor for the society we live in, and then an abrupt silence occurs before the gang vocals of New World Torture are unleashed. The first single off the album, it's still a huge anthem that can't be ignored. Your Evolution starts to smash your ear drums apart before title track Brainwashed thunders into existence. It's bloody good with yells of "Brainwashed! Turn it off, turn it off, turn it off!" We Are Alive At Night provides a melodic moment of reflection in typically beautiful While She Sleeps fashion (as do later tracks Kangaezu and The Woods) and then Our Legacy begins. Riffs galore, this track says something about not only Brainwashed as an album but about While She Sleeps as a band. Their music is their legacy, not just in sound but in lyricism also. More riffs and thunder come in the form of previously released Four Walls before Torment unleashes fury in a manner that mirrors it's content about personal demons. There's no stopping While She Sleeps. Trophies Of Violence, No Sides No Enemies, Method In Madness and Modern Minds all continue with relentless energry and insanity. This is an album full of power and purpose and it's exactly what you want this band to be.
"This music is our therapy. A song for those who never give up." -Life In Tension
Listen to: Brainwashed, Torment
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