Yma6 - Sinners Never Sleep

Sinners Never Sleep

On 15 December 2010, the band did an interview with coupdemainmagazine regarding to the progress of their upcoming third studio album. Frontman Josh stated that the band just did several demos for the record and that the songs would be of "heavier" than what the previous records Take Off Your Colours/Hold Me Down would be like. He also added on, "We’ve got songs that we’ve written that sound like they could be on a Coldplay or Snow Patrol album. And then we’ve got another song that sounds like it could be on a Parkway Drive record. It's really crazy if you were to ask me!". The album was also said to set for a September 2011 release.

In early 2011, rumours surfaced on the internet that the band had invited several guests to appear on the upcoming album, some of which were Bring Me The Horizon frontman Oliver Sykes, Adele and Hayley Williams. The collaboration of Williams and the band were pretty much talked about on forums and music sites like "Punktastic.com" after frontman Josh expressed a keen interest in doing a duet with Williams after the Reading and Leeds Festival, Soundwave festival, and the sold out 15-date European tour early last year. Williams and the band however, kept a low head on the sayings with no confirmation of a possible collaboration.

On 8 April 2011, it was confirmed on a video uploaded on lads-on-tour.tumblr.com that Oli Sykes is currently recording with the band on their upcoming third album in the Sound Factory studio, Los Angeles.

According to a tweet from Josh Franceschi on 3 August 2011, pre-orders for "Sinners Never Sleep" over at Play.com are the fastest the site have ever seen, to be of the band's what-to-be-seen.

On 8 August 2011, Josh also revealed to fans that the band would be filming the music video for the first single of the new record, titled "Loverboy" in early August. The single artwork was also unveiled hours later the announcement, and will be made available on 25 September.

Sinners Never Sleep was finally released on 3 October, and peaked at Number 3 in the Official UK Album Charts.

Throughout the months of September to November, the band has released one single off the new album, titled "Loverboy" and the EP includes the original track itself, along with both an acoustic and instrumental version of the track & an additional unreleased track titled 'Moon Child'. The EP was released on 23 September in UK.

In early November, the band announced that they would be releasing a new single off the album, and was later revealed to be the track "Bite My Tongue" which features Oli Sykes of Bring Me The Horizon. The official music video which also stars Oli Sykes was released soon after. The EP, which is set to be released on 4 December in the UK, will include the track itself along with two other brand new tracks titled "Just Forget" and "Brother". The band later admitted that the song "Just Forget" was meant to be the original title of the track "Bite My Tongue" but was later made changes to. The song is also a brand new, unreleased song pre-recorded especially by the band itself in the midst of preparation for the new album in late 2010. Josh also confessed that the track "Moon Child" in their latest "Loverboy" EP and "Brother" were some of the songs that did not make the cut for Hold Me Down as well. Other song titles were also mentioned to be some of those that were not included in the album, like "Over Us", "Retain" and "Your Birthday".

The band is also currently scheduled for plans on touring parts of Southeast Asia and Europe, including countries like Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore and Japan in mid-2012.

In March 2012, the band announced that the third single off the album would be "No One Does It Better", despite the single artwork for "Jaws On The Floor" was leaked out in late February. The single would be released along with two additional tracks titled "Over Us" and "Retain" and be released as a single bundle through Virgin Records in April.

The band announced in March 2012 that they had recorded a new song for The Swarm, a ride at Thorpe Park, which will be Europe's tallest winged roller-coaster. The song was released to iTunes on 18 March 2012 and is the world's first single for a roller coaster.

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