Black Label Society – Order Of The Black Album Review

In somewhat unknown personal territory for this album, the last 12 months have seen Wylde’s life radically altered. First, doctors discovered blood clots in his leg. Then, the second bomb dropped. Ozzy announced he was looking for a new guitarist. So, what does a man do in that situation. I guess he straddles his Harley [...]

Blue Gillespie – Synesthesia Review

This review has been slipping through the cracks a little recently so it is high time it finally saw the light of day. Blue Gillespie are a prog rock/metal collective aiming to join the rather large collection of successful rock and metal bands emerging from Wales in the last few years, and their debut full [...]

Pay No Respect – Moving On (Case 5)

Pay No Respect – Moving On (Code 5) Release Date – August 16th Genre – Hardcore Rating 4 / 5 This beast has been lurking in the dark of my iPod for the past week, just biding its time, patiently waiting for the moment that I’d press play and it would come bursting out the [...]

Violent Soho – Violent Soho Album Review

Violent Soho – Violent Soho (Ecstatic Peace / Defacto) Release Date – Out Now Genre – Alternative Rock / Punk / Grunge Rating 3.5 / 5 Whoah! Sounds like the 90′s. Well not the bleak Oasis dominated years but the good bits when Nirvana ruled the MTV airwaves. Imagine what it would sound like if [...]

Heights – From Sea To Sky Review

Rating 3.5 / 5 The world of progressive post-rock is a difficult genre for a band to stand out from the crowd. With so many bands persuing the repeated trickle of notes for several minutes that eventually builds into an all too predictable crescendo, it is refreshing to hear that Heights have taken a different [...]

Kvelertak – Kvelertak Album Review

Rating 4 / 5 “Kvelertak shamelessly draw inspiration from every corner of something that could fit into their idea of good hard-hitting and catchy rock’n’roll. Regardless of genre, but always truthful to the basic idea of the band; good songs performed with the tongue-in-cheek attitude of their punk-rock pioneers.” Releasing their much anticipated debut album, [...]

Oaf – Botheration Review

Oaf – Botheration (Unsigned) Release Date – Out Now Genre – Punk / Rock Rating 4 / 5 Botheration is the debut offering of Oaf, a punk rock duo whom sound is more akin a whole room full of drunken people shouting in your face, than two men with a bass guitar and a drum [...]

Furyon – Gravitas Review

Furyon – Gravitas (Unsigned) Release Date – June 23rd Genre – Hard Rock / Metal Rating 4.5 / 5 Furyon, hailing from Brighton, released their debut album ‘Gravitas’ on June 23rd. On the same day they also pushed out 120,000 copies of their ‘Underdog’ EP with ‘Classic Rock’ magazine in what is a bit of [...]

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing Review

Black Breath – Heavy Breathing – Southern Lord Release Date – March 29th Genre – Metal / Hardcore / Punk Rating 4.5 / 5 Ok, so we’re in June and this came out in March but this bad boy must have sneaked its way past me. Thankfully all is not lost as it has now [...]

Anathema Were Here Because Were Here Review

I usually try to do a 250 word review. To be honest what I should have done with this one is write the word ‘Wow’ 250 times. It’s stunning, simply stunning. Having previously had very little experience of Anathema I listened to the album with zero expectations or preconceptions. What I was rewarded with is [...]

Fozzy – Chasing The Grail Album Review

Five years after the release of their breakthrough album All That Remains, The “huge rock stars” of Fozzy, led by Chris Jericho and Stuck Mojo’s Rich Ward return with their new album Chasing The Grail, an album that has been attracting almost universal praise from all corners. What do we at Rocksins think of it? [...]

Imicus – Animal Factory Review

I’ve been wrestling with this review for nearly 2 weeks now. The issue I have is, just how do I describe Imicus? You see it’s fairly easy to pigeonhole a band’s sound and compare them to various peers but in the case of Imicus what we have is a release of maturity and confidence that [...]

Krass Judgement – Praying For A God That Never Comes

Three years of blood, tours, and beers has produced one of the finest unsigned metal albums of this year.  Krass Judgement pulls no punches as they shove the brutality straight down your fucking throat. The disk starts off with my favorite track, Dying Christians, a nice little piece telling how people of faith have effectively [...]

COHEED AND CAMBRIA – Year Of The Black Rainbow Review

“Only time will let you know if you’re worth anything,” sings Coheed and Cambria founder Claudio Sanchez on “The Broken,” the second track and first impression for most listeners of Year Of The Black Rainbow, the band’s brand new fifth studio album. Like every stingingly sincere line of this first song to be released from [...]

Here Lies Affliction – Catharsis Review

Regular visitors to Rocksins might remember early in 2010 I wrote an article about “10 up and coming british bands you need to hear“. If you don’t remember, or didn’t see it, read it by clicking on the title. One of the bands mentioned in that article were Harrow/Hillingdon hardcore metal collective Here Lies Affliction, [...]

Chimpspanner – At The Dream’s Edge Review

Chimpspanner; the one man metal army that is Paul Antonio Oriz. Written, performed and produced entirely by Paul, At The Dream’s Edge is a remarkably non indulgent display of an incredible talent. Playing a guitar that has extra strings and by the sound of it playing with extra fingers too, the album has a vibe [...]

The More I See – Tread The Darker Path Review

Back in 2008, The More I See released ‘The Unholy Feast’ a beast of an album that was hands down my album of the year, an album so good in fact that it retained it’s title with me for 2009. So now in 2010 with a fresh line-up of ridiculously young musicians TMIS is back [...]

Acrassicauda – Only The Dead See The End Of The War – EP Review

Acrassicauda, does the name ring a bell? How about “that band from that movie about metal in Iraq?” Most fans of metal have at least heard of the story of Acrassicauda by this point. Four guys who, against all odds, put together a metal band, made it to the states and have now put out [...]

Subsource – Tales From The Doombox Review

It’s a beast of record. Seriously. ‘Tales From The Doombox’ straddles genres like some kind of musical behemoth, effortlessly fusing the best elements of its influences into a sonic sensation. It’s heavy enough to satisfy your rock / metal side but dancey enough for you to bust some serious moves. The band describe themselves as [...]

Fallen Martyr – The Six Roots Of True Will Review

‘If you haven’t heard this sickening record yet, which is truly a breath of fresh air in an industry so heavily saturated with less than stellar carbon copies, you are missing out on something special. This is melodic heavy metal with a traditional tinge, and just enough polish to shine it up real nice, that [...]

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