Prog metal titans Dream Theater have announced their first full European Tour in support of their new album A Dramatic Turn Of Events appropriately titled “A Dramatic Tour of Events”. The tour will hit the UK in February 2012 and will be Mike Mangini’s first full UK tour since joining the band and follows their…
The first Dream Theater album without Mike Portnoy was always going to be a very interesting experience. After the band’s long and well publicised search for his replacement, they found a most capable drummer in Mike Mangini, no less than the fastest drummer in the world. With Mike on board the band set about carving…
Yellowcard will release new single ‘Hang You Up’ on 31st October. The band will be playing a full band acoustic set at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire on 6th September prior to a co-headline run with Saves The Day in the UK in Nov/Dec. These dates will be Yellowcard’s first full headline dates on these shores…
Porcupine Tree main man Steven Wilson has put another video live, taken from his forthcoming solo album ‘Grace For Drowning’ which is released on KScope on September 26th. Following the video for‘Track One’, comes the video for ‘Index’, directed once again by Lasse Hoile. Enjoy! [youtube id=”dte3-sSkWic” width=”600″ height=”350″]
Before the last night of their recent UK tour, I was able to catch up with Fozzy co-founder Rich Ward who was kind enough to give me a large amount of his time. We talked about a lot of different things, but the first thing on the agenda was that a few days prior to…
Having recently departed from former frontman Frank Carter, Gallows are excited to be able to show the world what their new line-up is capable of. ‘True Colours’ is the first recording to be released featuring new singer and former Alexisonfire guitarist and singer Wade MacNeil. “True Colours is a 36 second long thrash song,” explains…
Norwegian symphonic black metallers Dimmu Borgir have announced their return to the UK will come in the form of a UK wide club tour. The band will be performing two sets on the tour, one will be a classic album from Dimmu’s early days in it’s entirety. U.K. fans can vote for the following three…
British Rock legends Def Leppard are set to embark on a UK tour with Motley Crue this December. The tour will see them play 6 UK dates with Steel Panther as special guest support. Def Leppard frontman Joe Elliott says: “I can’t tell you enough how thrilled I am to announce this tour !! ……
Hot off the presses the awesome people at Bloodstock have announced the first two bands to grace Catton Hall in August 2012. Hitting the Ronnie James Dio stage will be heavy metal’s never give up, never say die veterans Anvil while Orange Goblin are to bring their stoner metal grooves to the Sophie Lancaster stage….
At the excellent High Voltage Festival last month Rocksins had a chance to catch up with Fox, bassist of Swedish power metal trio Grand Magus. Read on for thoughts and discussion on many topics, including the horrible incidents in Norway (which had happened only a day or two before the interview): Rocksins: First of all,…