The past two Days of Download Festival 2015 announcements have brought us some great quality bands topped off by Slipknot and Muse. Now the final night of 2015’s annual Donington shenanigans is set to be headlined by none other than the costumed masters of rock n’roll KISS. Gene Simmons “accidentally” let the cat out of…
After years of trying to get them, Andy Copping has finally succeeded. He’s only gone and booked Muse to headline Download! Devon’s prog rock trio will headline middle Saturday at Download 2015 and are bound to bring one hell of a stage show and a collection of tunes bigger than Matt Bellamy’s vocal range. Muse…
It’s been long speculated that off the back of their worldwide smash hit album .5: The Gray Chapter Slipknot would be back at Download in 2015, and the rumour mill has proven right. For the third time in their illustrious career the Iowan metal nine piece behemoth that is Slipknot will headline the Download Festival,…
About to embark on some of their biggest shows of their career thus far opening up for US nu metal stalwarts Trapt on Trapt’s first UK tour later this week, Kent hard rockers 48Hours have released a brand new music video to coincide with the dates. The video, for their single “Forget”, was filmed as…
Here at Rock Sins we’ve been eagerly awaiting People On Vacation’s UK tour which was due to take place at the end of the year. Sadly we’ve had news from the POV camp that the dynamic duo, Jaret Reddick and Ryan Hamilton, are having to delay their trip to the UK until the end of…
Horrible news has come to us late this evening concerning A Day To Remember’s gig tonight at the Portsmouth Guildhall. A Day To Remember’s set at the show was underway when a member of the audience in the upper tier / balcony section either fell from the balcony onto members of the standing section below…
With Rock Sins having been in attendance back in 2010 at Opeth’s magnificent 20th anniversary celebrations at The Royal Albert Hall, this piece of news is particularly exciting. Five years on, the Swedish masters of prog metal have announced a 25th anniversary celebration as Opeth clock up their quarter century as a band. To celebrate…
Having been together a relatively short time, Yorkshire outfit Cavorts are about to emerge fully into the big wide world of the UK rock and metal scene with their début full length album Got Your Brass. Having teamed up with In At The Deep End Records, who are renown for having put out some of…
Bloodstone and Diamonds is certainly one of the more inventive releases of Machine Head’s career and witnesses the band forging forward while retaining a recognizably ‘machine head’ sound. In this respect it is very similar to Lamb of Gods’s 2012 effort ‘Resolution’ which, although largely the sort of Lamb of God album you might expect, also…
Nothing More have been one of the breakout stories of 2014 in the rock and metal world. The San Antonio, Texas natives made their first trip to the UK back in June to play one of THE sets of the weekend at the 2014 Download Festival (read a review of their performance and the whole…