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 [...]

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 [...]

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? [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

North Atlantic Oscillation – Grapping Hooks Review

Following on from a highly successful tour with Porcupine Tree, ‘Grapping Hooks’ is the much anticipated debut album from Scottish Experimental / Progressive Rock trio North Atlantic Oscillation and it does not disappoint. The album is released on March 22nd through Kscope and features the single ‘Drawing Maps from Memory’ which has been getting heavy [...]

We The Kings – Smile Kid

Demi Lovato? You see as soon as I spell checked this review it threw up an error. More on that shortly. ‘Smile Kid’ is the sophmore album from American Pop-Rock ensemble We The Kings and starts off in suitably cheery style. It’s evident within the first 10 seconds that when adding the sugar to the [...]

Taking Dawn – Time To Burn

I am a huge fan of metal without a doubt but before the growling and shredding came into my life I grew up on good old fashioned rock and roll. That was until everyone starting wearing flannel and hating life while drinking coffee. Since that time there hasn’t really been anything on the rock scene [...]

Nixa – Guerilla

Nixa are a 4 piece hard rock band from London that have been around for approximately the last 3 years. They have won praise from various press and publications including Kerrang, Rock Sound and the London Metro Newspaper, and have been referred to as “One of the top 10 unsigned acts in the UK today”. [...]

Them Crooked Vultures – Self Titled

So expectations are big for this album by Them Crooked Vultures, who if you haven’t heard of (by some miracle) consists of John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Dave Grohl (Foo Fighters) and Josh Homme (Queens of the Stone Age). Right out of the box the album kicks in with a killer song ‘No One Loves me [...]

Illuminatus – The Rising Tide

Illuminatus are one Spaniard, one German, one Italian and one English gent. they deal in expansive soundscapes, razor-shard dynamics and no-nonsense melodic song-writing. For illuminatus there exsists no secene;no bandwagon; no fashion war. The Debut album ‘The Wrath Of The Lambs‘ has already gained the attention of the press, great reviews in kerrang!, Metal Hammer [...]

Flood Of Red – Leaving Everything Behind

The debut album from the Scottish 6 sum is defiantly one to catch if your fans of moody, punchy guitar riffs and vocal harmony that leave your jaw hitting the floor. The album starts out with a mellow, thought-provoking track titled “the edge of the world” that seems like it was made for the movies, [...]