Ice Nine Kills’ recently announced UK (& European) tour has had several venues upgraded and added a second date at the O2 Forum Kentish Town. Bristol, Glasgow and Manchester have all been upgraded venues to give even more fans a chance to come and see the horrors that they have in store. “After the killer…
Back in the UK for the first time since 2017, Nine Inch Nails treated their Manchester audience to a truly amazing sold-out show at the legendary O2 Apollo. There to catch Trent Reznor and co in all their glory was our photographer, Emma Stone.
Platinum selling rockers SHINEDOWN have always made music that felt autobiographical. Armies of fans have pledged their allegiance to the band due to the heartfelt journal-like nature of their lyrics. In writing album number seven, they have decided to adjust the formula with Planet Zero owing just as much to the works of Aldous Huxley…
Ahhhh Rammstein. The German industrial metal pyro masters were last on these shores three years ago, bringing their gigantic, flame filled stadium show to Stadium MK in Milton Keynes. Three years and two covid postponements later, Till, Flake, Richard, Paul, Christoph and Oliver returned to the UK, this time to Coventry. Rammstein also came armed…
Anyone announcing a tour in the last couple of years must have felt like Axl Rose talking about Chinese Democracy (2008). Announcements, delays, reworked lineups and serious disappointment have all been par for the course in recent times. One such tour affected by this was the Hella Mega Tour featuring rock heavyweights GREEN DAY, FALL…
As the sun rose once again for the final morning of the 2022 Download Festival, many thoughts were on the mind of Team Rock Sins. How lucky we’d been with the weather and just how bloody good Iron Maiden had been the previous evening among them. For those who haven’t seen the other parts of…
It’s hard to believe the house lights are off as the flood of lurid white and dirty yellow fills Brixton. Dry ice billows forth from the stage, touching all the way to the back row of the balcony. Combined with the intense heat in the increasingly intimate feeling almost-5,000 capacity venue, it envelops the audience…
Rock and roll royalty in their own right, Kiss brought their End of the Road tour to the UK for Download weekend for one final farewell. After two years plagued by cancellations though, the road to Download Festival 2022 hasn’t been an easy one! Announced by the gods of thunder themselves back in 2018. Their…
It’s mind boggling to think that The Cleansing is now 15 years old, and SUICIDE SILENCE themselves are in their 20th year. Vulgar, crass and disgustingly heavy, The Cleansing is everything death metal should be, while also doing everything a great debut album should do, announcing SUICIDE SILENCE‘s arrival in a big way. Listening to…
Everybody has their ‘gateways’ that got them invested in the world of heavy music. Whether it was an attention-grabbing magazine cover, a captivating live performance or the act of playing a highly successful rhythm game series with a plastic guitar in hand, they’re a huge part of bringing new blood into the family. For every…
