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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Cinders Fall – The Reckoning

Cinders Fall are a 6 Piece metal band from Essex UK. we recently got hold of their second release “The Reckoning”. The Album to me is a mix of metal and death metal, not heavy enough to be classed as death metal, but with a vocal that wants to be in there. The album starts [...]

Soul Sanctuary – Afterlife

Soul Sanctuary are a six piece Alternative Metal Band from the South Coast of England, formed in 2008. Since the release of their début album “Afterlife” they have received an exceptional response from fans from across the world. In the process of developing their first professional video in conjunction with BBC editor and independent film [...]

Warpath – Damnation

Warpath are a UK based metal band, which since forming in 2003 have gone onto become one of the biggest up-coming unsigned UK metal bands currently around, having been voted ‘The Best Unsigned Band of the Year’ by Terrorizer magazine in January 2009, as well as having a #1 Music video on Scuzz TV. Due [...]

Forever Never – Self Titled

Forever Never are a Metal band from Essex, UK with something a little bit extra than your average metal band, drawing influences from a wider scope than you might expect. Rhythmical, heavy and dripping with melodic twists and technical turns, Forever never take inspiration from Meshuggah, Michael Jackson and Mint condition in equal measures. The [...]

Fallen Fate – Revengance

I admit that I knew very little about Fallen Fate before now – an unsigned Thrash Metal Band from the North East UK.  To my surprise however, upon starting the first track off of their début EP “Revengance” I immediately thought “Why aren’t these guys well-known?, or even signed to a label yet?!” – A question i’m [...]

Sylosis – Conclusion of an Age

Sylosis are a band who have been around for quite a long time (I remember seeing them in the listings for The Marquee in Hertford and other such small venues around London about 2 or 3 years ago) but have only in the last 12 months or so started to garner the attention they arguably [...]

The Defiled – 1888

The Defiled are as heavy as they come with their EP 1888. This release landed on my doorstep not knowing much about the band. London-based band The Defiled have been stalking UK music venues for the past few years creating their unique mixture of groove-laden hardcore metal with an electronic ambience that provides a welcome [...]

Next Page »