Black metal is the infernal stalwart of the heavy umbrella. The old reliable. Though turns have been taken with the genre, ideas expanded and explored, and sacrilege aptly performed, there is a comfort in black metal that you don’t find with just any subgenre.
Black Stone Cherry are known for their deep south brand of rock n roll and so it was no surprise that 2 years ago they dropped a recording of pure blues covers, however, it was an absolute delight to hear that they have just released a follow up 6 tracks, dubbed Back to Blues 2….
Back in 2017 Cambridge trio Psychic Lemon released their debut album, Frequency Rhythm Distortion Delay to rave reviews and it quickly became regarded as one of the best UK psych albums of the decade. (It’s about to get a re-pressing, check bandcamp, but be quick!). They followed it up last year with a live album,…
With a very well fought recent video of the week contest, it was newcomer home grown riff merchants King Creature who came out on top. Having engaged in a three way battle for most of the week with The Injester and Halflives, King Creature eventually pulled way, winning the contest with 48% of the vote….
How do you follow up an album nearly 30 years old whilst maintaining credibility and making it sound like it belongs in 2019? Well the first thing you do if you’re Life Of Agony is have your opening song just repeat one line over and over and then only write another 9, padding out the…
Welcome to Rock Sins Weekly, the weekly digest of the biggest stories in rock and metal. This week, the death of a legend, the return of Rage Against the Machine, ArcTanGent’s first announcement and more.
They won’t be in venues this small for long.
Rock Sins is proud to say we’ve been supporters of the Heavy Music Awards since it was founded in 2017 (check out our write up of the very first HMA’s on this link). For the last three years, The HMA’s have been a wonderful celebration of all things heavy, taking place in August of each…
Every once in a while, there’s nothing better than some straight up metalcore to bang your head, sing-a-long and mosh with – and Novelists deliver that in spades. The French band have consistently delivered powerful and slightly out of the ordinary mix of metal, groove and tech metal since their formation in 2012, and –…
It is profoundly depressing that in 2019 bands of the stature and respectability of Thrice and Refused would get their venue downgraded. Originally slated to appear at the prestigious Brixton Academy, tonight’s show was moved to the Shepherd’s Bush Empire after – presumably – low ticket sales. That two bands, one on a great album…
