While She Sleeps' Sean Long Plays His Favorite Riffs 

Story time: at one of their gigs I found an all access pass on the floor, so after being drunk enough I thought it would be a good idea to go backstage and ask them for a group photo. So I did, I explained that I found this pass and all I want is a photo and I'll leave. They were obviously a bit weirded out but laughed it off, said they would probably do the same, and Sean was actually the person that called Loz over for the photo AND gave me one of his signature picks. Super cool guys

Sean is one of my biggest influences when it comes to riffing, dude is an insane musician but I feel like he’s so underrated

The best guitar leads at the moment. Such a great guitar player.

This is one of the best "Favorite riff" episodes i've ever seen, even better coming from a guy whose band I absolutely love

Him and Matt are one of the best metalcore duos

Big fan of this guy, very humble dude and I love the way he explains himself and makes sense 'the guitar bass and drums are just...like...shagging each other' hahaha he talks like a music fan not a pretentious music student and it's very refreshing!

7:00 the riff that finally got me out of my guitar slump after a year of playing the same thing over and over again. This dude is entirely why I got so much better over a few days than I had over an entire year of playing guitar.

Love it when As I Lay Dying gets the recognition they deserve!

3:04 These Fevered Times from Darkest Hour! I love that song and I love playing it on guitar!

Finally someone who actually plays instead of talking

Probably, Sean is the best guitarist in the core genre at the moment! Love WSS 👏🔥

Sean is honestly the reason I picked up a guitar about 4/5 months ago. Long way to go but so much fun!

Sean definitely loves his slides

I like his energy level. He seems really passionate about music

He’s right. Darkest Hour deserve so much more recognition.

best guitarist in metalcore right here

Such a nice guy. Met him at a show about a month ago. Great live too!

Such an underrated artist. Honestly is so good and still just a cool guy as well and you can see how passionate he is about his craft. WSS is easily one of the best metal bands around

The camera shifting focus @1:20 is damn cool

SUCH a great guitar player, AND good to see a fellow northerner ;D

finally somebody who gives darkest hour some recognition! criminally underrated riff-meisters and "bass and the guitars and kick drums are basically... SHAGGING EACH OTHER". top

Sean Long is a great guitarist and he's right in what he says, a good soloist doesnt make a good guitarist, his riffs have emotion and are one with the song and make the songs what they are. Keep on rocking Sean you're a Legend. p.s That "Hurricane" Music Video Shoot up at the Sleeps Brothers Warehouse in Sheffield for the release of "You Are We" was incredible. Please keep writting these inspirational and uplifting riffs. Thank you 👏🤘

Darkest Hour is one of my favourit Bands of all Time and it now makes Sense why i Love the Sound of white she sleeps so much

i had the pleasure of interviewing sean, along with sleeps' second guitarist mat welsh, nearly eight years ago just before the release of their first album! such a great dude, it's been awesome seeing the band rise up, stay consistent and now get so much recognition for their talents.

it's good that the word Shag won't get you demonetised

Sean Long makes me love music even more, this video is an underrated gem

Darkest hour riffs are so mental!!! That whole “undoing ruin” album are some of the best riffs every written. Phenomenal. Doesn’t surprise me that Sean “the riff master” was into darkest hour.

i could watch sean play anything on guitar for hours

Sean's riff it's just amazing.. The creativity is high level, and WSS song never wrong for their breakdown. Well done!!

Great musician, great songwriter...

The words i would say to Sean if i meet him, such an inspiration for myy life, as a person, and as musician, he´s really my hero, hope i can climb one day to where he is and inspire so many other people as he did with me.

One of the best bands I've ever seen live💯

One of the best riff makers of the industry nowadays , absolutely beast ! Great episode

This energy... just wow

i love this guitarist

Matt's one of the most innovative riffy boi out there. His riff from civil isolation still pull off to these days.

Guilty Party one of the best Riffs. Sean’s riff game is so strong. Wish I had his creativeness to make what he does. FAKERS PLAGUE still has the best riffs throughout the whole song IMO

Yeah, Sean is absolutely right to be proud of that riff in the Guilty party. It's phenomenal. Great lead work in Haunt Me too.

Met this guy and Loz at a WSS show last year with architects and Thy art. Him and Loz are such amazing dudes. The line was short so we had the chance to talk a bit more

Saw Darkest Hour with Everytime I Die and Norma Jeannin Australia years ago. Such a good show and he’s not wrong saying DH is super underrated.

6:55 channeling the Stevie T within

This was refreshing

I love sean, he's a phenomenal player man and so immersive

Sean is an Amazing guitarist, mad respect.🤘🏼

I would love to be his neighbor he’s got fantastic taste in music and plays all the best bits, God love him 💞✝️🤪🤘👍💜💕🤪

Sean is such a thoughtful dude lol btw the breakdown/riff in empire of silence is exactly what i was thinking when he said his breakdowns style wasnt typical. I love hearing that shreddy melody riff expecting some chuggy breakdown i get adreniline rush everytime i play it or show yall off lol.

I an definetly see how darkest hour influeced the way that sean plays and writes. and thank god!!

Every time Sean says "DJNAAMIN" I fall in love

This is insane. So good, so underrated. Keep up the good work Sean...

Extremely articulate dude

dude the intro riff from seven hills . it has those chills that remind you when you finished a school year or went to South America in vacation

Finally some Darkest Hour props in the scene. Undoing Ruin and Deliver Us are iconic to me.

absolute machine of a player

It’s good of him to keep on asking us if we know what he means. Very considerate.

Wow this dude is killer. Love his riffs super melódico. Exciting to watch ..

Everytime i wanna say their name i said it like: While She shleepsh

The Guilty Party guitars are so fucking good, no wonder why he is proud of the main riff in this song :D

unbelieveably good looking guitar

if anyone ever asks what pick chirp is, show them 08:37 :)

So sick you guys had him on. He has been a huge inspiration to me for years and is easily one of the best players out there. Glad I got to meet him on their states tour last month!

Met them when they opened up for Asking Alexandria and bullet for my valentine a couple years ago great band and energy and they were super chill and signed my cd and poster

This guy knows his stuff

That dude is a riffing beast.

7:20 best Riff in the video, great played!

this man's an artist

My dude xxx love him x

Civil Isolation has some amazing riffs aswell. It may be my favorite WSS song, riff wise.

I feel so emberassed asking this considering I know like every As I Lay Dying riff going but what is that AILD riff he was playing it's right on the tip of my tongue but I cant remember what it's called please help! Lol... and for some reason I'm loving that really muddy tone Sean has, dude friggin rips

I love leads over shreds one of my favorite metalcore songs is wild eyes by parkway drive

Duuuude the riff from guilty party is like my favorite from their new recorddddd

His style is so awesome... Even to this day, civil isolation just blows my mind.

Sean is ICONIC

As I lay dying are great

I don’t know who this guy is but I rather enjoyed that!

Sean is the best

I love that he's playing a LTD instead of a ESP.It goes to prove ESP's LTD brand are the best import guitars out there.

WSS are mega live for anyone wondering

Best leads at the moment by far. Genius

They should beore famous

AMAZING

6:55 "bloolloolooblop"

Interesting to hear him say he basically would block out the vocals and focus purely on the instrumentals while listening to music. As a drummer since I was 12 it took me a LONG time to realize I was doing the exact same thing.

Man, i love While she sleeps

Sean is the modern day riff goat

Fucking love Sean's playing.

Hes guitar blinkin mad this fella!!!

While She Sleeps！The god forever！

These dudes are so fucking good. Just found out about them today

That’s exactly what I do listen to the music not the words

0:32

Happy to see Richard has moved on from Pied Piper and become a pretty good guitar player.

5:39 but now it is online thanks to the incredible work of the guy of The Vault that searched for 9 months the early work of WSS from 2006 !

Sean mate, ur funny as fu**! Love WSS some absolute head bangers!

Awesome!

Bro that's so cool. My first riff/song I learned was Dammit too. That's so fucking awesome. Edit: Darkest Hour was when Victory Records Reigned Supreme brother! I just fell in love with While She Sleeps more than I already was lol

6:55 is exactly how my leads sounded when i played guitar

Fuck yeah man, I love the Darkest Hour shout out.

That guitar reminds me of my jim root strat!

Awesome dude!!

As I Lay Dying AOBU!!! First album i learn in full on guitar! 😍