Since their formation in 2013, it’s fair to say that it feels like Starset has been flying somewhat under the radar on this side of the pond despite racking up over a billion streams. However, with the rocket ride that is Horizons, the band look set to enter new frontiers with their genre-defying, space-fused, new age concept-driven unique…
It has been five years since Dutch Powerhouse Symphonic Metallers Epica released a brand-new album (save for reboots, The Solace System EP (2017), Epica Vs Attack on Titan Songs (2018) and The Quantum Enigma B-sides (2020). This is the longest gap between albums in the history of the band, but with the gap comes a rejuvenated Epica in the form of the mighty Omega. With their eighth…
At the end of December 2020, Dance Gavin Dance blew anyone (and everyone!) out of the live streaming arena. They only went and got Sacramento’s Tower Bridge shutdown (aka the US equivalent of the iconic bridge in London of the same name) so they could throw down Tree City Sessions 2 live stream and album…
“Madina Lake never ended on our terms”, so says Madina Lake bassist Matthew Leone. But now they’re back and ready to write a better ending with new EP The Beginning of New Endings. Rock Sins’ Claire Frays caught up with Matthew to talk all about the EP, their upcoming live stream shows, that time Matthew’s…
If there’s ever a time to make an unexpected comeback, the time is now or never. Lockdown or not. And that’s clearly what Madina Lake thought too. Now having spent close to a decade away from the game after wrapping up their three-album trilogy (save for a brief tenth-anniversary reunion in 2017), the band has made a…
Westview, the brand new country act hailing from LA and Miami, has unveiled its latest single release, Cross Your Heart. The release comes hot of the heels of two stand-alone tracks, What It Ain’t and Old Fashioned Love released in late 2019 and January 2020 respectively. The former of which has already amassed over 100,000…
Jinjer enjoyed a stellar 2019 racking up legions of fans across the world and cementing themselves firmly as one of the years’ stand out bands and ones to watch in 2020. We caught up with Jinjer drummer Vladislav Ulasevich ahead of the band taking to the stage at The Asylum in Birmingham (read the review…
As part of our continued celebration of Internatipn Women’s Day, Our very own Claire has nominated Tarja Turunen as a women who inspires her. Not only has Turunen pioneered an entire Metal genre, inspired countless bands and singers in metal and classical music and blessed us with her out-of-this-world vocals, she’s also shown how you…
It seems the path we’re on was paved with blood and sorrow so sings Ivan Moody which seems to allude to the relentless and war-torn path that Five Finger Death Punch has embarked upon to reach its eighth album. It’s almost surreal that they got here in a series of circumstances that came close to…
In this interview we meet Westview. If they sound a little familiar, then you might just remember them under the name Stellar Revival who played a blinder of a set on the main stage at Download Festival eight years ago. Now back with an all new project with an added “Nashville twist” and some catchy…
With just two UK dates announced on the Megadeathpunch Tour, fans made the trek from all corners of the country and beyond, to witness what will surely end up being one of the tour line-ups of the year. With Five Finger Death Punch and their special guests Megadeth and Bad Wolves on the line-up we…
It’s my first ever Rock Sins End of Year awards having joined the team in January 2019 and what a year it has been for the scene. New faces, older bands returning and the usual cluster absolutely slaying it with their releases and live shows. Oh, what a time to be alive in our little…
