Best album of the year: InMe – Herald Moth This album completely took me by surprise, and I think it’s the album that sticks out in my mind for being memorable this year. Having already been familiar with some original InMe tracks, I had been half expecting the same sort of stuff, but they most…
We had the opportunity to chat with Chilean Thrash metal legends Nuclear about all things metal, their new album ‘Jehovirus’ and throwing band members out of a hot air balloon. Here is what bass player Raimundo Correa had to say…. 1. Tell us a little about the latest album ‘Jehovirus’ R: Jehovirus is our 3rd…
As 2010 draws itself to a close I have cast my minds eye back over what has been a fantastic year for music. We were posed a series of questions, Best Album, Best Gig, Best Festival, you get the idea, and off I went to answer these, or rather evading them, with my multiple choice…
For the Rocksins end of year picks, rather than doing the standard top X albums, we thought we’d do something a little different. Each one of us will be picking our end of year highlights, so you can respond to us in kind if you want to. Here are my choices: Best Album: Fozzy –…
Skin are a band that by all accounts, deserves so much more than they’ve got. A band who have the songs, have the likeability and above all have the pure, undiluted passion – just look around at one of their gigs (well, you can’t any more) and you’ll see this passion being shared with a…
If you were to pick one genre of metal that summed up the entire world of heavy metal, then surely you would look very little further than thrash metal? Combining relentless riffs, crushingly fast solos and face pounding vocals, thrash metal has it all. From the enormity of the big four to the lower depth…
At Rocksins we’ve been trying to keep our readers as up-to-date as possible on Adam Darski, better known as Nergal from Behemoth’s fight against Leukemia over the last few months, there is some new encouraging news to report: Courtesy of blabbermouth.net: According to reports in the Polish media, Adam “Nergal” Darski, the 33-year-old leukemia-stricken guitarist/vocalist…
It comes with great pleasure to announce that Earth will be embarking on a five week spring tour of the UK and the continent in 2011 to promote their stirling new studio album Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord), this will be the first time this material has been performed live on…
Before the first show of the Jagermeister / Metal Hammer tour last month, we were lucky enough once again to catch up with Sylosis guitarist (and now frontman) Josh Middleton and he brought guitarist Alex Bailey along for the ride. If you would like to read a review of the London show of the Jager…
Roadrunner Records have circulated the unfortunate following news: Livia Zita, the 26-year-old wife of 54-year-old Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond (real name: Kim Bendix Petersen; MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND), has issued the following update: “Let me catch you all up on the past couple of weeks’ happenings, because it affects many things. “On Monday…
