Rock Sins has teamed up with Texas’s favourite Pop Punk superstars Bowling For Soup to offer some exclusive BFS goodies to the winners of the first Rock Sins Bowling For Soup competition. To enter, it’s really simple. All you have to do is Like the Rock Sins page on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/rocksins) and then tag us…
The last night of the Metal Hammer Razor Tour steamrollered into the Camden Underworld on Friday night, having thrilled sell out and near sell out crowds at every show up and down the country for the past week. How would the final night of the tour go when Rocksins went along to see it? Read…
What happens when you combine one of the leading lights of shock rock / metal with a rabid sold out Brixton Academy? You get Rob Zombie‘s first London live show in sixteen years. Unfortunately for all of us Mr Zombie was a little late in taking the stage, and the hoards got a little restless….
A Day To Remember are one of the hottest bands of recent years with a reputation for putting on a great live show. What happened when Rocksins’ went to check out ADTR live at The Brixton Academy? Read on to find out. Due to the shortish nature of the support band sets, come 9.15 and…
Since the big announcement for Download 2011 on Monday and Download booker Andy Copping’s subsequent interview, various bits and pieces of information have surfaced as a result of the interview, comments by Andy on Twitter and various other sources. Rocksins believes all the following information to be accurate but please take this with a small…
For the Rocksins end of year picks, rather than doing the standard top X albums, we thought we’d do something a little different. Each one of us will be picking our end of year highlights, so you can respond to us in kind if you want to. Here are my choices: Best Album: Fozzy –…
At Rocksins we’ve been trying to keep our readers as up-to-date as possible on Adam Darski, better known as Nergal from Behemoth’s fight against Leukemia over the last few months, there is some new encouraging news to report: Courtesy of blabbermouth.net: According to reports in the Polish media, Adam “Nergal” Darski, the 33-year-old leukemia-stricken guitarist/vocalist…
Before the first show of the Jagermeister / Metal Hammer tour last month, we were lucky enough once again to catch up with Sylosis guitarist (and now frontman) Josh Middleton and he brought guitarist Alex Bailey along for the ride. If you would like to read a review of the London show of the Jager…
Roadrunner Records have circulated the unfortunate following news: Livia Zita, the 26-year-old wife of 54-year-old Danish heavy metal singer King Diamond (real name: Kim Bendix Petersen; MERCYFUL FATE, KING DIAMOND), has issued the following update: “Let me catch you all up on the past couple of weeks’ happenings, because it affects many things. “On Monday…
Thanks to Scott Cole for the awesome photo, you can check out his other photos here: https://www.flickr.com/musicandmodels Last month during their extensive UK tour, I was privileged to catch up with Bowling for Soup bassist and all round fantastic guy Erik Chandler before the opening night of the tour at the Cambridge Corn Exchange (read…
BOWLING FOR SOUP front man Jaret Reddick and bassist Erik Chandler are back by popular demand in April 2011 with their second acoustic tour! Following the huge success of their debut UK acoustic dates in 2010, the duo return next Spring for a fifteen date tour – and this time they’re making it extra-special with…
The big news from this evening is that Linkin Park have been confirmed as the second headliner for the 2011 Download Festival. This will be the third time that Linkin Park have headlined Download after previous appearances in 2004 and 2007 and join the reformed System of a Down as currently announced headliners. In another…
