This Is the Six

This Is the Six
Studio album by While She Sleeps
Released	13 August 2012 (2012-08-13)
Recorded	1 November 2011 – February 2012
Studio	Chapel Studios, South Thoresby, Lincolnshire, England Treehouse Studios, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Undisclosed Studio, Wales
Genre	Metalcore
Length	44:32
Label	Search and Destroy Sony Music The End
Producer	Carl Bown
While She Sleeps chronology
The North Stands for Nothing (2010) This Is the Six (2012) Brainwashed (2015)
Singles from This Is the Six
"This Is the Six" Released: 11 May 2012[1] "Dead Behind the Eyes" Released: 29 June 2012[2] "Seven Hills" Released: 6 July 2012[3]

This Is the Six is the debut studio album by British metalcore band While She Sleeps. It was released on 13 August 2012 through Search and Destroy Records. The album was produced by Carl Bown. Intending to create a more refined product over their successful EP, The North Stands for Nothing (2010), the band began preparing the album in late 2010 to early 2011, with recording beginning on 1 November 2011 and concluding in February 2012. "Dead Behind the Eyes" debuted on 3 April 2012 on BBC Radio 1, and a music video was released later that day; the title track "This Is the Six" was teased two weeks later, and was released as the first official single from the album on 13 May 2012. Controversy followed the next day for its debut on a late-morning broadcast of Radio 1 with Fearne Cotton. "Dead Behind the Eyes" became the second official single on 29 June, followed by "Seven Hills", which had debuted on Radio 1 on 25 June and was released as a single on 6 July.

Praised for its consistently heavy mix of hardcore punk and heavy metal and likened to their hometown Sheffield peers Bring Me the Horizon, This Is the Six debuted at No. 27 on the UK Album Chart and Scottish Albums Chart, and spent one week on each of them. The album peaked in the top two of the UK's Rock & Metal Chart.