Bursting forth from their Danish homeland with enough ideas to put even the most ardent of musicians to shame, progressive quartet VOLA have set out their stall to become a shining beacon in the world of interesting, inventive and technically challenging rock music. With sophomore album ‘Applause of a Distant Crowd’ featuring more twists and…
Having first appeared all the way back in 1999 as a sister event to the famous Reading Festival, over the last near two-decades, Leeds Festival has grown to become one of the biggest events in the UK festival calendar, encompassing a huge variety of acts across multiple genres. We trekked up north this year to…
Team Bloodstock have given us a pre-halloween treat with six new bands to join Sabaton on the 2019 Bloodstock Open Air Line up! First up, joining Sabaton on the Friday are Finnish thrashers Children Of Bodom, who are always a welcome sight and sound at any UK festival. Their appearance at Catton Hall in 2019…
When Coheed and Cambria released their 2015 effort The Color Before the Sun, listeners were left wondering if the band were finished with their Amory Wars storyline, which has been written by frontman Claudio Sanchez in comic book form throughout the band’s history (and the reason for the band’s name). The album was different for…
The UK classic rock scene has been completely turned on its head in recent times by a huge wave of talented new bands, taking the classic rock sound and giving it a 2010’s twist, gaining huge new audiences in the process. One of the bands at the front of that movement are Welsh natives Those…
US rockers Darker Days are a fairly newly formed group as they will tell you themselves below. With a new EP out in a few weeks time, it was the perfect opportunity to get to know them a little bit. Darker Days, over to you: Welcome! Please introduce yourselves to our readers: We are Darker…
Avatar will have announced they will return to the UK and Europe in continued support of their newest LP, ‘Avatar Country’. The Gothenburg metallers will embark on their second full scale European run for this album cycle, with stops confirmed in January at Glasgow’s Garage, Birmingham’s O2 Institute, the O2 Ritz in Manchester, Bristol’s Anson Rooms and…
Having had the most successful UK tour of their 24 years together back in February with The Get Happy Tour 2018, Bowling For Soup have decided to give the UK a second, special dose of their much loved tongue-in-cheek pop punk with a very special tour. Being huge fans of Christmas, and many do not…
Devildriver’s remastered re-releases of their first five albums might feel a bit pointless to some. Indeed, there’s no real “anniversary” to make them feel warranted. ‘Beast’ and ‘Pray for Villains’ the latest albums of the five were, indeed, both released under a decade ago. However Devildriver have still had one of the best, and most…
It has been awhile since the last Rock Sins video of the week contest, won by Rxptxrs – but we’re back in a big way with five brand new videos for our readers enjoyment. The only place we could start this week was with Brighton’s finest metalcore masters Architects. Having dropped the second single from…
