In amongst the numerous UK metal bands who’ve done extremely well for themselves throughout 2012, we’ve neglected coverage of some of them through lack of time more than anything else. One of those bands is UK/Canadian “supergroup” AxeWound, who are made up of members of bands as well known as Bullet For My Valentine (Matt…
A couple of days ago, we posted a video interview that took place at The Vans Warped Tour UK at Alexandra Palace last month with Bowling For Soup’s singer Jaret Reddick (view that here if you wish). That was so popular with our readers we’ve decided to put up another one, this time featuring Burt…
It seems the Internet gremlins have decided to strike us as we thought this bit of news had been published several weeks ago, but it seems we were mistaken. So here it is better late than never! Having been reasonably quiet for the last few months aside from frontman M Shadows popping up on the…
Everyone likes to have a bit of fun at Christmas, especially those of a rock & metal persuasion and if there’s one band in the rock & metal world that equates to fun, its our friends in Bowling For Soup! As a Christmas present check out the always awesome Jaret Reddick, BFS frontman, being interviewed…
The team here at Rocksins just wanted to take thirty seconds out of your Christmas Day (or any other day you might happen to read this) to wish everyone a fantastic Christmas and New Year (or holiday period in general if you don’t celebrate Christmas). 2012 has been the best year in Rocksins history and…
Album of the year Sylosis – Monolith A hulking beast of brooding progressive atmospherics mixed with some devastatingly fast thrash, Monolith simply crushes. Honourable Mentions Lamb of God – Resolution. Its Lamb of God back to doing what they do best after a (very) slight dip in form with ‘Wrath.’ Kreator – Phantom Antichrist Best…
Regular visitors to Rocksins.com know that we’re big supporters of Fozzy, and our presence is pretty much guaranteed to be there whenever they return to their home away from home in the UK. When the announcement was made that their late 2012 trip would be a co-headline jaunt with Soil, who are back together with…
For awhile, there’s been speculation over the fate of next years’ UK leg of the Sonisphere Festival. Having cancelled in 2012 due to poor ticket sales (and what many deemed was an unfavourable lineup being the cause), it seemed as recently as a couple of weeks ago that Sonisphere was going to return to Knebworth…
In response to yesterday’s shocking developments regarding their singer Ian Watkins, the five other members of Lostprophets – guitarists Lee Gaze and Mike Lewis, bassist Stuart Richardson, drummer Luke “Jocko” Johnson and keyboardist/DJ Jamie Oliver have issued a brief statement, which can be read below: Following charges made today against Ian Watkins, we find ourselves…
Earlier today, we reported the news that Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins, 35, from Wales, had been arrested and charged by the police over multiple counts of sexual offences relating to children (our original report can be read here). The latest update, provided by the BBC (and no doubt reported by many other news organisations) has…
