Sleeping with Sirens lean toward melody within the post-hardcore landscape, generating intense emotional surges through their fusion of yearning aggression, metal edges, and emo roots. The group found momentum in 2010 upon issuing With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, which featured the breakout track "If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn." Later releases Feel in 2013 and Madness in 2015 propelled them high on Billboard rankings, while 2019's How It Feels to Be Lost and 2022's Complete Collapse further blended tuneful hooks with forceful dynamics, all anchored by singer Kellin Quinn's distinctive vocal range.
The band came together in 2009 with Kellin Quinn handling vocals, Jack Fowler and Jesse Lawson on guitars, Justin Hills on bass, and Gabe Barham on drums. Rise Records noticed them swiftly, inking a deal that led to the 2010 debut With Ears to See and Eyes to Hear, which entered the Billboard Heatseekers chart at number seven and moved more than 25,000 units. Their follow-up Let's Cheers to This surfaced in May of the next year. Early in 2013 the members revealed they had begun studio work on a third album, resulting in Feel arriving just six months afterward and landing at number three on the Billboard 200.
Madness, the quartet's fourth full-length and their first on Epitaph Records, appeared at the start of 2015. The acoustic collection Live and Unplugged came out the following year and incorporated renditions of Sublime's "Santeria" alongside Goo Goo Dolls' "Iris." Gossip, their fifth album, emerged in 2017 via Warner Bros. after production by David Bendeth and revealed a pronounced pop direction on songs highlighted by the opening single "Legends."
In the ensuing two years the band mounted extensive North American and European tours behind the record, then declared a new partnership with Sumerian Records in early 2019. Their initial Sumerian release, How It Feels to Be Lost, surfaced later that year and signaled a shift back to heavier post-hardcore textures, complete with the tracks "Leave It All Behind" and "Break Me Down" plus a guest appearance from Benji Madden; it entered the upper half of the Billboard 200. Complete Collapse arrived in 2022 as a fierce, unpolished statement and contained the Spencer Chamberlain-assisted single "Crosses."
