The Sleeping was an American post-hardcore band from Long Island, New York, formed in 2003. The band was founded by Cameron Keym, Sal Mignano, and Joe Zizzo from the remains of Skycamefalling, after auditioning twenty-two potential singers, they came across Doug Robinson, former singer/guitarist of the band Stillwelle. Their music has been featured in video games including Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam for the Wii, Madden NFL 07, Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock ("Don't Hold Back"), Guitar Hero: World Tour ("Bomb the World"), and FlatOut: Ultimate Carnage ("Listen Close"). They released their fourth studio album, The Big Deep, on September 28, 2010.

Their first album, Believe What We Tell You was released in 2004, and their second, Questions & Answers was released in 2006. They started touring before they released a full length record. They toured on a three song demo that was hand printed and self recorded. The demo sold over 1000 copies, the band used a DIY method at first which saw them booking their first tour themselves. In 2004, the band was signed to a small independent record company and released Believe What We Tell You and started touring full-time. In 2004 and 2005, they toured with Taking Back Sunday, Bayside, Brandston, Action Action and many more. In 2006 they were featured on the Nintendo Fusion Tour along with Plain White T's, Relient K, Emery, and Hawthorne Heights. They also toured the UK on the Victory Records Tour with The Audition, Bayside and Aiden. They toured mainland Europe and the UK on the Give It A Name fest with Gallows, Jimmy Eat World and Sparta. They toured in January 2007 with Senses Fail among others. They were also nominated for 2007's MTV Mountain Dew Circuit Breakout, and finished in the Top 12.