New shows in January!
Hey peops,
We’ll be kicking off 2026 strong with two killer shows in January!
January 24th – we’re heading across the border to Saarbrücken’s Studio 30 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the legendary “Saarland Underground Metal Sampler”. We were honored to be on their sampler back in 2012 and 2014, and now we’re stoked to be part of this epic one-day festival featuring 9 amazing bands.
Just one week later, on January 31st, we’re returning to the infamous Mix N’ Kawa Bar in Belval for Symphonic & Melodic Metal Night! We’ll be sharing the stage with our mates ShadoWhisperƧ and LaVila (D). Get ready for an epic night of soaring vocals, massive riffs, and cinematic metal soundscapes. Join us for a live show that blends symphonic grandeur with melodic intensity.
We can’t wait to see you there – let’s make some noise and kick 2026 off in style! 🤘
Thank you!
About that gig: It slapped, it clicked, it was loud and magical!
Our third Metal Cruise on the Marie-Astrid truly felt like a new start, and we couldn’t be happier with how you welcomed us in our new line-up.
Huge shoutout to the M.S. Princesse Marie-Astrid crew! 🚢⚓️🍔
Yann Dalscheid for the sound 🎚️
Tom for the lights💡
Säm & Sally for handling our merch 👕
Elena A. Photography & Lea for the great pictures 📷
By the way, we’ll set sails again next year! So stick around, more is on the horizon.
Buy your tickets NOW
🎟️ Tickets are now on sale!
Don’t miss the chance to grab yours for the 3rd edition of the Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise – it’s gonna be loud, heavy, and wild!
⚓ See you on board!
👉 Bandcamp
Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise Ticket Sale – SOON!
⏰ 2 DAYS TO GO – TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 10:00 ⏰
We’re almost there.
This Friday at 10:00 CET, ticket sales for Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise 3 go live.
You know what to do. Be early. Be fast.
Be ready to grab your tickets → https://sleepersguilt.bandcamp.com/
Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise 3 presale
TICKETS DROP THIS FRIDAY – 11.07.25 at 10:00
We will provide the final link as soon as the ticket sale starts.
The countdown begins.
Be ready to grab your tickets on 11.07 at 10:00 → https://sleepersguilt.bandcamp.com/
‘Vows To Ashes’: New Single
After months of crafting, tweaking, and a whole lot of excitement behind the scenes, we’re proud to share our latest release: “Vows To Ashes” – the first track featuring our new vocalist Luc François.
Inspired by Greek mythology and brought to life visually by our talented Peruvian friend Giancarlo Melgar, this song kicks off a brand-new chapter in our musical journey.
🎧 Give it a spin (or five) on your favorite streaming platform, and let us know what you think!
💿 Feeling extra supportive? You can also grab the track on Bandcamp.
📍Catch us live at Dinosaurierpark Teufelsschlucht on June 15th – we’d love to see you there!
THE FINAL ROAR
The grand finale of the “Rock Fossils – True Love Never Dies” exhibition at the Dinosaurierpark Teufelsschlucht (Ernzen, Germany) will be crowned by a one-of-a-kind music event on June 15th: “Krödter & Lotsch” meets “Sleepers’ Guilt”—Acoustic Rock collides with Death Metal!
Krödter & Lotsch, the songwriting duo behind the event, are Hanno Ensch and Bruno Zwank, the directors of the Dinosaur Park. We ourselves got Ben Thuy behind the drums—he’s not just our drummer, but also a paleontologist, making him the perfect fit for this one-of-a-kind event.
The show kicks off at 6:30 PM, with the bands rocking out between T. rex and Triceratops. The park stays open until 9 PM, and the whole event is included in the regular entry fee. If you’ve got a season pass, you’re in for free. Find all additional info here!
Vows to Ashes: Sneak Peek of Our Latest Song
It’s time to share a glimpse of our next chapter.
Here’s a snippet of our brand-new song Vows to Ashes, which will be released on June 1st!
With that, we are happy to share that Luc François has joined us on our journey, as our new vocalist.
Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise
Get ready to embark on a very special metal voyage as Sleepers’ Guilt, Sublind and The Velvet will set sail to deliver an explosive night of music aboard the ship MS Princesse Marie-Astrid.
Event Details:
Date: September 27th
Venue: Ship Marie-Astrid, Luxembourg
Boarding at 6.30 PM in Grevenmacher
Dinner Included!
To enhance your experience, we’ve arranged a dinner that will satisfy your hunger before the show. (classic and vegetarian Burgers)
Tickets presale | 
Limited Tickets. First Come, First Served:
We’re releasing a limited number of tickets via our Bandcamp page
Once they’re gone, they’re gone. No restocks, no second round.
We’ll notify you one week before the sale starts, so stay tuned and make sure you’re following us.
A New Horizon
Our new EP „A New Horizon“ is set to hit the digital shelves on September 30 and will be officially released at the occasion of the sold-out show on the iconic MS Marie Astrid cruise vessel.
“A New Horizon” eponymously expands the musical spectrum of the preceding album to more light-hearted tunes without losing intensity and complexity.
Marie-Astrid Metal Cruise
Get ready to embark on a very special metal voyage as Sleepers’ Guilt, Cosmogon and Drogher will set sail to deliver an explosive night of music aboard the ship MS Princesse Marie-Astrid.
Join us for an unforgettable night as we will celebrate the release of our EP, “A New Horizon”!
Event Details:
Date: September 30th
Venue: Ship Marie-Astrid, Luxembourg
Boarding at 6.30 PM
🍔Dinner Included! 🍔
To enhance your experience, we’ve arranged a dinner that will satisfy your hunger before the show. (Classic and vegan Burgers)
🎟️Tickets presale:
🔗 Link: https://sleepersguilt.bandcamp.com/merch/ticket-to-marie-astrid-metal-cruise-30092023
Grab your tickets now and sail with us as this cruise promises to be the metal event you won’t want to miss!
Female Voice Metal Fest
Just a quick reminder that we are going to hit the stage on 21.04. at Kasino Kornmarkt in Trier with Pentastone and The Tex Avery Syndrome!
Grab your tickets here: ➡ https://www.ticket-regional.de/events_info.php?eventID=195196
Female Voice Metal Fest: An evening with exclusively female vocals!
We are vhappy to be part of the first Female Voice Metal Fest in Trier.
From tender to hard, from fragile to brutal, the three frontwomen will offer the whole range of emotions on this evening and enchant the Kasino am Kornmarkt in their very own way.
PENTASTONE from Darmstadt are often compared with the mighty JINJER and don’t need to shy away from this comparison. They play Alternative Metal and transport a lot of femininity with their music with their mixture of Metal, Alternative and Rock, especially through the variable voice of their singer Louisa. Femininity not as a subject, but as a means of contrast, which works through themes such as anger, grief, agony and death. PENTASTONE will captivate the casino with their magic right from the start. So early attendance is mandatory!
SLEEPERS’ GUILT from Luxembourg are a known quantity. With their Progressive Melodic Death Metal they have already rocked big stages like the one at Metal Days. The combo, often reminiscent of LAMB OF GOD, brings sweat to your forehead with their fast, melodic sound and the catchy songs, which are performed by singer Sanya with a brutal voice, leave no one cold.
Headliner of the first “Female Voice Metal Fest” will be THE TEX AVERY SYNDROME from Frankfurt am Main. They play Modern Metal and have already been on tour with well-known giants of the scene, such as JINJER. And also as headliners they exude pure dominance with their cracking, furious and driving mix of metal, hardcore, beatdown and deathcore. Singer Laura will tear the casino to pieces with her brute voice and bring violence and destruction over Trier!
Be there or be dead! Get your tickets today at the VVK!
Tickets are available at Ticket Regional and Eventim.
Another show announced
Lo and behold! The meatiest event of the season will take place at Mix N’ Kawa – MK Bar belval on november 5th. We will worship the almighty sausage along with with our buddies from Mindpatrol and Incordia – Official.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1246190009551254/?ref=newsfeed
New show announced (02/11/2022)
We are thrilled to not only announce a new show but also by the fact that we are sharing the stage with our buddies from Mindpatrol as well as Altesia from France. (Seriously, check their stuff out, if you haven’t already)
The show will take place on 02/11 at the Rock Box. If you want to blow off some steam on a Wednesday evening, this is your chance!
Thank you!
Holy moly, what a night! You guys were amazing at our release show, thank you for making this a very special evening.
Many thanks to the Rockhal and Rocklab Team, Pleasing, Kim Conrardy from U-Matic, our amazing merch ladies, and most of all YOU!
Release Show!
Ok guys, we’re going to bust your balls one last time – but only because we think it’s really worth it:
Next Friday at the Rockhal, Pleasing, us, and What Remained from start to finish.
Tickets
https://rockhal.lu/shows/sleepers-guilt/
Facebook event
https://fb.me/e/1yDF54HGU
Many thanks to our awesome Pyre team
We want to thank everyone who worked on the video for “Pyre”!
- Marcel Dostert from Visual Aberration for the production and direction of the video.
- Chris Mannert for the pyro technics and Micha Mangiafuoco for the fire performances.
- Shoutouts go to Isabelle Kiens and Natalia Slioutova.
- Elena Arens from Elena A. Photography for the pictures.
- Again, Kudos to Lea Numberger-Thuy & Ralph Gengler for the construction of the machine. (Sorry for the damage)
- Many thanks to the Wacken Foundation for their support!
- Lastly, thanks to all the backers of our Kickstarter project, without whom the realization would not have been possible!
In case you missed the video or want to watch it again, follow this link!
Lead me to the “Pyre”
The premiere for the “Pyre” video will start in 30 minutes! Get yourself a drink, make yourself comfortable and we’ll see you very soon.
Proudly sponsored by Wacken Foundation
A very big thank you goes out to Wacken Foundation, who actively supported us and our album production.
Check out how this great foundation supports metal bands from all over the world!
Book’s done
It comes with great pleasure that I’m finally able to tell you that my first ever book, “The Tides of Fate – An Exordia Novella” is, after some extra rounds of editing as well as some unexpected twists and turns, published. Take a look at the finished product:
The blurb for the story that inspired the last three songs on our upcoming album “What Remained” goes something like this:
The domed city of Exordia has existed for over a thousand years, being home and shelter to the last survivors of humanity in an otherwise uninhabitable world.
Josten is desperate. After losing his son Lero, who was banished from the city as punishment for a crime, and his wife Sofia for following a perilous hidden agenda, he made his choice. Clinging to the last vestige of hope that Lero might have survived in the Outside World, he decides to make his last stand…
Suppose you consider yourself someone interested in reading post-apocalyptic fiction, and this blurb sparked your interest. In that case, you can find the paperback version and the ebook format of it on Amazon.
Link:
The paperback will also be available at our merch booth on our release show for the album on June 3rd at Rockhal Luxembourg.
In the case, you’ll read it, feel free to leave a rating or even a review on Amazon and/ or Goodreads. Even if it is only one sentence, it will help an aspiring writer a great deal.
Chris
Pyre!
Check out the teaser for our new video for the second single “Pyre” from our upcoming album “What Remained”. Premiere will be on May 26th at 18:00 (GMT+2).
Book announcement
As I mentioned in a post some time ago, our upcoming album “What Remained” slowly progressed into the thematic realm of versions of pessimistic future visions and there was not a proper plan from the start. That’s still true, but I left something out.
Hear me out.
At some point, there was in fact a plan:
On our previous album “Kilesa”, the last three songs formed a trilogy, still, to this day, one of our creations we are most proud of. During the songwriting process of the new album, the idea occurred to write a new trilogy with over-lengthy, progressive songs. At some point, there was the vision of enhancing the musical vision by an accompanying story.
The idea came from, well, yours truly. I felt the itch to write a story to inspire the music, a way we hadn’t tried until then.
And so I did. I brought something to the page, and, being the greenhorn I was (and still am), it was… well, let’s just say it was not worth mentioning. In fact, it was nothing but a pile of first draft vomit. At least in my book. (pun intended)
However, it served its purpose, and it inspired the songwriting unexpectedly, resulting in three massive songs of which we are really, really proud of.
As we were planning the release of the album some time ago, Philip came up with the idea to make the initial story I’ve written accessible for those interested. After all, it was a part of the creation process. Well, I vehemently refused at first. But the longer I thought about it, the more the idea had something charming, something challenging.
I agreed on Philip’s idea, but only unless I would rewrite the whole damn thing to the best of my capabilities. So, I sat back in the chair and wrote, trying to keep its core idea intact.
With the certainty that there’s at least the possibility that someone would read it, I gave a little more effort this time. After finishing the new draft, I sent it to my sister Carole Winchester and my brother-in-law Stu Winchester, waiting “patiently”, biting off my fingernails. Contrary to all expectations, their feedback was quite positive. They offered me their help in regards to further edits (I can’t thank them enough for it!) and now we’re almost there, being in the final rounds of copy editing.
Copy editing? Yes! Thanks to their tireless and patient support, I took the decision to take the plunge and self-publish the story.
The book will be called “The Tides of Fate” (same as the opening song of the trilogy) and will contain somewhat +/- 20000 words and thus could be considered a novella.
It will be available on amazon in ebook format as well as there will be a printed edition.
Before I go, I have to mention my sister Carole one more time, as she is currently completing the cover artwork, but more on that in a later post.
Until further notice
Chris
P.S. sorry for not nailing the accurate writer poses
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