We are hugely saddened to report that British rock n’roll icon and founder of Motorhead, Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister, passed away last night at his LA home at the age of 70. Having battled with illness on and off over the last couple of years, Lemmy found out that he had an aggressive form of cancer…
From power metal to math rock, bands of all parts of the rock and metal spectrum at this time of year occasionally like to produce a festive number or two. So, we thought here at Rock Sins we would give a quick overview of a selection of some Christmas and holiday themed songs we’ve encountered…
Orange Goblin are something of a British metal institution. Having recently celebrated their 20th anniversary together as a band, it was only right that back at the end of the Summer, Rock Sins caught up with their guitar Joe Hoare and bassist Martyn Millard on the final day of the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival…
Ambitious and vivid, Nottingham subgenre-bending quintet The Five Hundred are keen to clock in and muck in. Debut EP ‘Winters’ combines passionate breakdowns with emotion-packed melodic clean vocals, offset neatly by savage screams. Intense from the onset, the title track opener is crammed with soaring solos and tricksy fretwork evident of guitarists Paul and Andy’s…
Over the last several days there have been a lot of worrying noises coming out of Australia about the future of the Soundwave Festival, Australia’s premiere touring music festival. A favourite with fans and bands alike, 2016’s edition was set to feature Disturbed, Bring Me The Horizon, The Prodigy and many more. However a couple…
Slamming the pedal to the floor, rock and roll’s humble country bumpkins Clutch return for an eleventh crack at the whip with ‘Psychic Warfare’. If you’re looking for consistency, Clutch are your guys. They’ve already got 22 years under their belts and not one note of ‘Psychic Warfare’ suggests they’re tiring of it all yet….
Bloodstock Open Air has announced three more bands for next August’s annual mosh-fest in Derbyshire. US prog metallers Symphony X (pictured) – making an exclusive UK festival appearance – join Sunday, with Slayer topping that bill. Fellow Americans, industrial metal legends, Fear Factory will hit the Ronnie James Dio Stage on Saturday, headlined by Mastodon….
Having had an all round fantastic 2015, Canadian prog rockers Diatessaron are set to finish the year with a blast. Over the course of the Summer the Canuck prog wizards were in the UK, amongst other reasons to play the mighty Bloodstock Open Air Festival. But while they were on UK soil they also able…
For those not familiar with the name, Teramaze are an Australian prog metal group. Lead by the string six skills of Dean Wells, and having acquired themselves a new vocalist in the form of Nathan Peachey, their fifth album Her Halo is something of both a rebirth and a spreading of their wings. This album…
It’s a fairly peaceful Thursday afternoon, things are ticking along quite nicely towards home time in the office and then BOOM, a new Killswitch Engage song gets released. This first piece of new music to surface from what will be Killswitch Engage’s as yet untitled seventh album is called Strength Of The Mind, and has…
