Festival season is almost upon us. Across the board, we’ve seen more bands wanting to play warmup shows before hitting those bigger stages. With a Sunday slot on the main stage of Download awaiting them, VOLBEAT made a stop at Islington’s o2 Academy on their Servant Of The Road tour. It may have seemed odd…
Pearl Jam were one of the bands I struggled to get into when I was younger. As someone who wanted everything loud and heavy all of the time, their more measured and sensitive approach to rock fell largely on deaf ears. It wasn’t until my early 20s when things fell into place and they have…
After three years of the festival circuit being put on hiatus, it was finally time for 2000Trees to join the likes of Download Festival and welcome everybody back. With lots of re-booked bands from the cancelled line-ups, the festival was announced to be a sell-out, just a week before it all got underway. With the…
Back and even bigger than before, this week saw the return of 2000trees Festival at Cheltenham’s Upcote Farm. The Rock Sins team headed down to capture the action, which included Amelia Toomey (aka GIRLI) making her debut at at the Forest Sessions stage. Our photographer Jemma Dodd caught the set and you can see the…
Holding Absence and Alpha Wolf have announced a split EP titled The Lost & The Longing that is set for release on the 15th August via SharpTone Records and Greyscale Records (Australia and New Zealand). The EP will include four new tracks, two of which feature collaborations between both bands. In conjunction with the EP…
Following the recent release of their single Glitch, Parkway Drive have now confirmed the full details of their upcoming new album. Titled Darker Still, Parkway Drive’s seventh album will be available on the 9th of September. Darker Still will be released through their longtime label Epitaph Records. Check out the full track listing for the…
Released in March 2018, the debut album from Conjurer, Mire, was a real celebration in the UK metal scene as a new contender for the most exciting band around emerged. With four years of waiting to finally have its follow up arrive, it’s always felt like there was no rush for this band and that…
Their first UK performance was long awaited following the release of their debut album, Eternal Blue, and even more anticipated due to the pandemic getting in the way of their initially scheduled dates. Download Festival 2022 will be remembered for many things, but once of those standard moments will be Spiritbox’s first UK performance. To…
They’ve headlined festivals all over the UK and beyond, and for 2022, Biffy Clyro were invited back for their second crack at headlining the Download Festival, five years after doing so for the first time. Biffy have always relished in the idea that with their band, if you know then you know. Yes, they have…
BLOOD COMMAND have been one of the best and most exciting punk bands of the last ten years. For whatever reason though they’ve remained a cult band and never got the wider love they deserve. Perhaps the large gaps between albums which have all involved a line-up change haven’t helped but each time they come…
