While She Sleeps are climbing over a fence – a fence with a no trespassing sign attached – in search of the perfect location for their Kerrang! cover shoot, marking the release of new album SELF HELL. Firm believers in the motto that it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission, the band have already been politely told to sod off from one particular location (secretly grabbing a few more snaps on the way out), and now we find ourselves, in the bitter northern winter, clambering through hollowed-out lorries. Broken beer bottles, empty baggies and spent condoms pockmark the ground in a stark reminder that we’re not in a swanky, overpriced Soho studio, but the vehicular graveyard behind of a Sheffield industrial estate. This is the oil-stained reality ...
