Continuing Rock Sins’ highlights of last year in our end of year awards series, it’s the turn of longtime contributor Will Stevenson. Here are Will’s picks of the great, the good and the somewhat disappointing from 2016. Album of the year: Full of Hell / The Body – One Day You Will Ache Like I…
Bloodstock aren’t the only festival who’ve dropped a whopper of an announcement today. ArcTanGent, Bristol’s wonderful collection of postrock, shoegaze and hardcore bands merged into a three day festival near Bristol (taking place the week after Bloodstock, in case anyone wants to do both), have unleashed an almighty festival announcement. They have added a gigantic…
It feels like we’ve only just had a Bloodstock Open Air Festival announcement for this Summer’s festivities at Catton Hall, but it’s time for more bands to join the 2017 Bloodstock line up. First up is an enormous announcement for Saturday’s special guests, who are none other than German thrash kings Kreator! They have been…
Where do we even begin with Emmure? No doubt if you have had your finger on the pulse, then you will have likely heard all the stories a million times over. But what you probably don’t know is the story of the rebirth. This album will tell that story. Look At Yourself is the album…
For the first time in the year long history of Rock Sins video of the week – we have a tie, and thus, two winners! Both prog metal wonders Ayreon and UK indie-rockers Death & The Penguin polled the same number of votes this time out, and so, we have declared two winners this week…
Californian bubblegum punk duo The Dollyrots have been very good at the whole Crowdfunding and involving their fans in the creation of their music for quite some time. Their latest album, Whiplash Splash, has been no different, with the band sharing the process with their PledgeMusic backers every step of the way. Those who back…
Continuing with the onslaught of recent festival announcements, Bloodstock Open Air 2017 are back at bat, and they’ve hit another home run (that’s about all the American Sports references we can manage, we’ll stop now). Joining the BOA 2017 line up as Sunday night’s special guests are Arch Enemy! Revitalised by the addition of Alyssa…
