At the very end of 2014, Rock Sins was granted an interview with one of the greats of British metal from the last twenty years. Nick Holmes, best known as frontman for Paradise Lost and now more recently as the new man behind the microphone for the death metal super group Bloodbath. Rock Sins’ Philip…
It’s almost time for People On Vacation’s long awaited album The Chronicles Of Tim Powers to be released. After multiple delays for various reasons, The Chronicles Of Tim Powers is set for release on Monday (February 2nd 2015). Ahead of the albums release, People On Vacation, aka Jaret Reddick and Ryan Hamilton have teamed up…
With the recent news that Sonisphere Knebworth won’t be happening in 2015, booking bands just got a lot easier for the Download Festival – not that they generally have problems anyway. The latest batch of rock, metal and alternative acts have just been announced by Andy Copping and his team for Download 2015, and it’s…
The Prepare For Hell tour was one of the most anticipated metal tours to come to the UK in quite some time, not only was it’s Slipknot’s return but it was Slipknot with special guests KoRn! On Friday the tour finally made it’s stop at a sold out Wembley Arena and the atmosphere in the…
On the sixth night of Slipknot’s Prepare For Hell tour, the band return to London’s Wembley Arena for their first London show since 2009. Needless to say this was an incredibly anticipated set, especially after KoRn and Slipknot performed a ridiculous but amazing cover of the Beastie Boys’ “Sabotage” during KoRn’s set, the bar was…
Slipknot in the flesh are a band that make people put down the camera and the phone and live in the moment. Slipknot’s first full UK tour in over six years has been eagerly awaited since the day it was announced some months ago. Throw in the fact the Prepare For Hell tour also had…
Polish blackened death metal act Hate never have quite reached the same levels of success as their fellow countrymen Behemoth but have always maintained substantial success in the underground extreme metal circuit. 2013’s Solarflesh was certainly a step in the right direction with perfectly executed riffs and a lovely fusion of the blackened death metal…
So…in case you missed the almighty shitstorm that has blown up all over the net over the last couple of days, let me update you. It was announced today that Blink-182 will perform at the Travis Barker-presented Musink Festival in California…as ‘Blink-182 with Matt Skiba‘. After the announcement, rumours spread online that guitarist Tom DeLonge had quit Blink 182. Kroq.com posted a statement…
For at least the last decade, one of my favourite bands has been Korn. The pioneering metal band have managed to outlast the majority of their peers from the nu-metal sub-genre. As I was led on to Korn’s swanky tour bus, I was struck by how massive this interview is – I mean, how many people get…
Fall Out Boy have always been my guilty pleasure. Treading a very fine line between rock and pop, on a mission to make accessible contemporary music. The onomatopoeic ‘American Beauty/ American Psycho” was never going to be ‘From Under The Cork Tree Vol.2’, but then would we want it to be? Far from being American Psychos, Beauties or…
