Lana Del Rey has always felt like a different type of pop star from a completely different era, something that has always put her at odds with all of her peers and contemparies. This after all is a woman who rode into the spotlight on a wave of melancholia and declared herself the queen of…
After tickets for the UK return of A Day to Remember and their intimate show at House of Vans sold out within MINUTES (and I mean, 2 or 3 minutes) a friend to me “I think ADTR broke the internet…” I think A Day to Remember (9) broke House of Vans too. With their monumental…
When Marcel Duchamp unveiled his now seminal post modern piece, The Fountain, it was met with equal parts praise and derision. Divisive from its inception and continuing to cause debate amongst scholars, it is one of the great pieces of post modern art that remains prescient and misunderstood to this day. The same can be…
Britain’s premier Black Metal band Cradle of Filth have announced the release date for their remastered version of their landmark album Cruelty and The Beast. Coming on November 1st, the reissue dubbed Cruelty and The Beast – Remistressed features a fully remastered version of the album making it sounds even more sinister than ever before,…
So the first Radar Festival took place this year and Rocksins decided to pop along to see what would unfold. The Venue, Casino, Guildford, is not normally somewhere you’d expect to go and listen to tech metal (or any metal as a fact) in the area. This became very apparent on the exit of the…
Last night our photographer Jemma Dodd headed to the Cambridge Corn Exchange to catch Skunk Anansie 25 on there 25LIVE@25 tour, celebrating their 25th anniversary. Check out some images from the show below:
For the unitiated Ho99o9 are one the most unique, interesting and utterly baffling bands on the planet right now. Imagine taking the best elements of Body Count, Slayer & The Dillinger Escape Plan, boiling them all into a pot, sprinkling with whacked out samples and serving at the highest temperature. If that sounds bonkers on…
Those who love their American Thrash Metal will no doubt be aware of Sacred Reich, a band not old enough to be lumped in with The Big Four but too old for most of us to have gotten into around the time heavy music had a popularity surge in the 90’s (just before Kurt ruined…
Taylor Swift has become a bit of a media circus over the last decade with a string of high profile lovers and feuds threatening to overshadow her musical career whilst defining who she is in the process. 2017’s Reputation was a major misfire that saw Taylor get caught up in playing the role of the…
Slipknot have finally confirmed the timetable for their enormous UK and Ireland tour for 2020, and what a tour it will be. Following on from their groundbreaking success with new album We Are Not Your Kind hitting number one in the UK album charts, as well as number one in America, Ireland, Canada and elsewhere,…
