Our friends over at Roadrunner Records have continued their recent spree of adding high quality bands such as Rush and Gojira to their roster over the last twelve months by signing up US hard rock band Shinedown. Shinedown, who have sold several million albums worldwide over the last decade are joining up with Roadrunner on…
Massachusetts NWOAHM band Killswitch Engage have announced that they have parted ways with long time singer Howard Jones. Jones was vocalist for Killswitch Engage for nine years, replacing original singer Jesse Leach. Jones sung on the bands three most recent albums, the most recent of which was 2009’s self titled album. Killswitch Engage were originally…
Fans of crazy solos and fast metal rejoice! British power metal band Dragonforce will be returning to the live arena in February for a very exclusive show at London’s 100 Club. The band, best known for their hit Through The Fire And The Flames being the final song on Guitar Hero III will take to…
In one of Rocksins’ biggest exclusive interviews in our two and a half year history, I was lucky enough to catch up with Alter Bridge and Creed bassist Brian Marshall in the bowels of Wembley Arena, a few hours before Alter Bridge took to the Wembley stage to deliver a career defining performance (one that…
Just a quick note to all our readers to say we hope you have had a great Christmas and New Year and that we hope everyone has a fantastic 2012. We’ll be posting our highlights of 2011 on the site soon, including the highs and lows of each of our writers and some of our…
Fresh from the success of their late 2011 headline tour that saw them travel the length and breadth of the UK and the long awaited release of the critically acclaimed Give Me Infinity (read a review of that fantastic album right here) album, Reading’s melodic quintet Exit Ten have announced their first batch of headlining…
Fresh from unleashing their brand new album The Path of Totality with its new musical direction upon the world at the end of 2011, KoRn are bringing their new dubstep / electronic influenced tunes (along with a shed full of their classic material) to venues across the UK in March for their first full UK…
Machine Head‘s rebirth amongst the metal community began in 2003 with their career saving Through The Ashes Of Empires and their career exploded in 2007 with the release of The Blackening, winner of countless “album of the year” and “album of the decade” awards granted by everyone from Metal Hammer on down. Fast forward another…
A Devildriver live show is always something for most metal fans to get excited about. Whilst in my opinion their recent records have not been as enjoyable as the first three they’re still a force of nature in the flesh. The prospect of seeing them on the same tour as the mighty Machine Head and…
For months, UK metal fans have been eagerly awaiting the start of December 2011 for two particular tours; The Eighth Plague Tour, featuring Machine Head and Devildriver amongst others, and the third Metal Hammer Defenders Of The Faith Tour, headlined by Trivium and with a fine supporting cast of special guests In Flames, Ghost, Rise…