In the last half an hour, it’s been announced that the two headliners for the 2017 ArcTanGent Festival are none other than Converge and Explosions In The Sky! The news was revealed by Radio One’s Dan P Carter in an exclusive on the Radio One Rock Show, an announcement that has already gone down VERY…
Following Youth Killed It’s close won victory in the first Rock Sins video of the week for 2017, we’ve got another five videos vying for your votes this week. First up prog metal legends Opeth have offered up something of a cinematic masterpiece with their new video for “Era”. Invoking the spirits of a few…
It’s testament to any bands quality that they can produce such consistently excellent work three decades into a career of extreme metal. Fortunately for us Vader remain one of these bands with latest album ‘The Empire’ being just as good as anything else they’ve produced in the past few years. All death metal needs to…
As Lions are a band that you will no doubt be hearing a lot from in 2017. This is largely due to the release of their debut album Selfish Age and for the considerable push, they are getting. For those of you that saw Five Finger Death Punch headline Wembley in 2015 you will have seen them in…
Well, what a titanic struggle to kick off Rock Sins 2017 video of the week series. After over 5,000 votes (approximately the same number who voted in the 2016 video of the year contest), London pop punkers with a rap makeover, Youth Killed It, just took home the crown. They were engaged in a week…
Nostalgia invaded Manchester at the tail end of last year as Korn and Limp Bizkit teamed up for a UK tour. Never being ones to miss an opportunity to throw on our baggy jeans and mosh like it’s still the nineties, we sent Sabrina Ramdoyal along to the show to capture this exclusive gallery for…
It’s no secret that being in a medium-sized rock band isn’t particularly lucrative. It’s also easy to forget just how long lots of the “new wave” of English alternative rock groups have been kicking it for: Lower Than Atlantis and the recently retired We Are The Ocean celebrate their tenth birthdays this year, whilst Don…
Black Coast embarked on their first tour of the year last week, kicking off proceedings at London’s Black Heart. We sent our photographer and assistant live editor, Rachael Griffiths, along to capture this exclusive gallery of the band and their supporting acts Cove, Snakes and My/Bitter/Half. More Black Coast news as and when we have…
Always a welcome sight on UK shores, Joey Jordison (of Slipknot and Murderdolls fame, just in case you’ve been under a rock for the last fifteen years and don’t know who he is) is heading this way. He’s bringing his brand new band, Vimic, to England for a short three date run at the end…
BAND-MAID is a J-Rock band that’s been threatening to make waves in the west for a while now. They first gained attention as little more than a gimmick, as the contrast between their hard hitting J-Rock/metal songs and their cutesy French maid imagery became a talking point in the metal community. However, they have the…
