To celebrate the CD release (for those of you who did not pick up Metal Hammer’s excellent fan pack edition) of Machine Head‘s latest album “Unto The Locust”, Roadrunner Records and Machine Head have teamed up with Scuzz TV, Jackson Guitars and Attitude Clothing to put on a series of UK wide album release parties…
For those of our readers who are Mastodon fans, they might be interested to know the exciting news that Mastodon tomorrow night will become only the second metal band ever (after the legendary Metallica) to appear on the BBC’s Later With Jools Holland. Mastodon will hit the airwaves with Jools at 10pm on BBC2 where…
Fozzy have announced that they have parted ways with their longtime bassist Sean Delson. Delson had played with Fozzy for 8 years and appeared on their last three albums, the most recent being Rocksins’ 2010 album of the year Chasing The Grail. The band are reporting the split was a “mutual decision”. Delson has also…
Hot off the press from our friends at Roadrunner Records is the news thrash legends Megadeth have announced a series of UK wide events to help celebrate the release of their thirteenth studio album release, entitled “Th1rt3en” funnily enough. Th1rt3en is the first Megadeth record to feature Mr David Ellefson, bass player and founding member…
British heavy metal is arguably in one of its most purple patches since the ultimate heyday in the late 70’s/early 80’s. As a testament to this, tonight’s show at the packed Carling Academy Islington featured four young British metal bands each at different stages in their careers. Opening band Chapters are newcomers and a band…
We had a chat with James Cook and James Britton of Welsh metallers Anterior during their UK tour supporting Sylosis. Rocksins: The metal scene in the UK is thriving right now, do you find it hard to stand out? James Cook (Drums): I’d say so, I think every band nowadays has to work harder. There’s…
After releasing one of the best metal albums of the year, Awaken the Tides, we caught up with Dale Butler, the prolific front man of Reading metal band Malefice for a quick chat. Rocksins: Your new album, Awaken the Tides, came out earlier in the year, how has the reaction been so far? Dale Butler:…
Some huge metal news from our friends at Metal Hammer, the mighty Skindred are to headline a huge gig on Halloween night in Birmingham, and the best news of all its absolutely scott free! Joining Benji and the gang will be the deceptively heavy Rolo Tomassi, the legendary Therapy?, Scottish mob Yashin and rounding the…
Furyon are currently one of the UK’s most impressive unsigned bands. After they opened the Metal Hammer stage on the Sunday of the the High Voltage Festival this year in Victoria Park, Rock Sins was lucky enough to catch up with Matt, Chris and Lee to see how it all went and share some congratulatory…
Artist: Malefice Album: Awaken The Tides Label: Metal Blade Release Date: July 18th 2011 For Fans Of: Sylosis, Devildriver, Chimaira, Meshuggah, Modern Thrash Stand Out Tracks: Awaken The Tides, Delerium, Baying For Blood From their debut EP Relentless back in 2006 through to their last full length album Dawn of Reprisal, Malefice are a band…
