With the 2014 Download Festival now less than two weeks away, it’s about that time of year again where Rock Sins picks out our acts that we really think you should see across the weekend. In part one of our preview, we’ve got ten bands we think you should see on the first day of…
Fans of technical metal were in for a treat tonight as Born Of Osiris brought their current UK tour to Manchester. After The Burial, Betraying The Martyrs and Buried In Verona rounded off tonight’s line up with some of the most impressive bands working their way up the metal scene right now. ‘Openers Buried In Verona (7) are stuck in the unfortunate…
Well this is quite the announcement for a Friday morning! Iron Maiden’s performance at the 2013 Download Festival was notable for the Spitfire that appeared at the beginning of their performance, and Sonisphere Knebworth have just announced plans to top that in quite spectacular fashion twelve months on. Sonisphere are delighted to announce that a…
This is a video that hit the airwaves a little while ago but as it’s from a band Rock Sins has long held in high regard we wanted to make it available to all of our readers anyway! Currently celebrating the recent release of their brand new album Shadows Of The Dying Sun, Finnish melodic…
Ah Download 2012, one of the truly great years in the festival’s history. With stunning headline performances from Metallica and Black Sabbath among numerous other fantastic performances it was one of the best weekends at Donington Park since Download began back in 2003. Directly under Friday headliners The Prodigy and the unusual (but successful) choice…
It started off as a documentary about the band’s fans and ended up being so much more than that. Now Lamb of God’s worldwide smash hit documentary As The Palaces Burn is coming to on-demand streaming services to allow you to see it in the comfort of your own home in Just a few days…
It’s all gone a bit Pete Tong as the saying goes… or has it? Could the latest album from French musician Rémi Gallego (The Algorithm) pass as music? It’s like a spaceship dissected into little bits of music, but then it’s a computer game sound track and the whole cyber space world is colliding. What is being…
Architects are back with their sixth and most exceptional album to date, Lost Forever // Lost Together, which will undoubtedly propel the Brighton quintet to a new career high. Starting off proceedings with Gravedigger and it’s sly ambient introduction you get an utter brute of a song. Delivering the riff of the album into the…
In a very fitting tribute to an inspirational young man and a member of the Download Festival family, it has been announced by Andy Copping and the Download Festival HQ team that this years’ event will have the main stage named after Stephen Sutton. The Stephen Sutton Stage will serve as a reminder of Stephen’s…
Back in 2010, Boston’s favourite rock and roll sons Aerosmith made their first trip to Donington since the Monsters of Rock days when they headlined the closing night of that years’ Download Festival. As with their previous UK appearance at Hyde Park three years earlier, the weather for much of the day was utterly miserable,…
