British heavy metal is arguably in one of its most purple patches since the ultimate heyday in the late 70’s/early 80’s. As a testament to this, tonight’s show at the packed Carling Academy Islington featured four young British metal bands each at different stages in their careers. Opening band Chapters are newcomers and a band…
Some huge metal news from our friends at Metal Hammer, the mighty Skindred are to headline a huge gig on Halloween night in Birmingham, and the best news of all its absolutely scott free! Joining Benji and the gang will be the deceptively heavy Rolo Tomassi, the legendary Therapy?, Scottish mob Yashin and rounding the…
Furyon are currently one of the UK’s most impressive unsigned bands. After they opened the Metal Hammer stage on the Sunday of the the High Voltage Festival this year in Victoria Park, Rock Sins was lucky enough to catch up with Matt, Chris and Lee to see how it all went and share some congratulatory…
Artist: Malefice Album: Awaken The Tides Label: Metal Blade Release Date: July 18th 2011 For Fans Of: Sylosis, Devildriver, Chimaira, Meshuggah, Modern Thrash Stand Out Tracks: Awaken The Tides, Delerium, Baying For Blood From their debut EP Relentless back in 2006 through to their last full length album Dawn of Reprisal, Malefice are a band…
Some really disturbing news that has surfaced on the social media grapevine over the last 24 hours. The tour they are currently on, which also features Malefice and Chapters was on its Birmingham installment last night. Both Sylosis and Anterior had merchandise stolen right from the merch tables by so called “fans”. In an age…
Check out the latest offering from Dave Mustaine and co from the forthcoming Megadeth album “th1rt3en”, due out shortly on Roadrunner Records: [youtube id=”m2Mb2vMTIjg” width=”600″ height=”350″] For any further Megadeth news including any news of the Gigantour hitting the UK & Europe in 2012 stay tuned to Rocksins.
Prog metal virtuoso’s Opeth have released the video for the first single off their new album Heritage (released last month on Roadrunner Records), The Devil’s Orchard. Check out the quite frankly awesome video below: [youtube id=”fIii-iEQw50″ width=”600″ height=”350″] For the latest rock and metal videos please keep checking back with Rocksins often!
Rocksins.com likes to bring our readers live gig reviews from all sorts of bands in venues of all shapes and sizes, but this show was particularly unique for the venue. Read on to find out more. Imagine a room about the size of your average living room. Then take away the front third of the…
SONATA ARCTICA, Rocksins’ favourite Finnish power metal band, have released a teaser video for their forthcoming DVD, which is simply titled “Live In Finland”. The video can be viewed below: [youtube id=”8HN7NgzIV7w” width=”600″ height=”350″] The DVD comprises two discs consisting of a main live concert, bonus music videos and lots of other content. If you…
Rock Sins’ would just like to send congratulations to the Opeth guys for hitting number 22 on the UK album charts with their new album Heritage, an impressive achievement for a metal band. Opeth follow >Roadrunner Records labelmates Trivium and Dream Theater in charting in and around the UK top twenty in the last two…