Continuing with our annual end of year awards, this time it’s the turn of Rachael Griffiths, our Assistant Live Editor and one of our team of photographers. Here’s her thoughts on 2016. Album Of The Year: LetLive – If I’m The Devil Perhaps an unsurprising one to start with, given my bias towards LetLive. A…
After the frenetic chaos of the first Rock Sins video of the week in 2017, a slightly more sedate affair this time out has produced it’s winners – Cambridgeshire five piece Standing Like Statues! Having been up against the likes of prog metal maestros Opeth and Danish animated video specialists Vola in this weeks’ vote,…
Kitsune Art have been making waves in their native Spain through 2016 with their debut album Signals of Synchronism, and despite still searching for a record label, they can consider the feedback for the album a resounding success. This week’s global underground spotlight focuses on the band as we spoke to them about what Kitsune Art…
Following Youth Killed It’s close won victory in the first Rock Sins video of the week for 2017, we’ve got another five videos vying for your votes this week. First up prog metal legends Opeth have offered up something of a cinematic masterpiece with their new video for “Era”. Invoking the spirits of a few…
Well, what a titanic struggle to kick off Rock Sins 2017 video of the week series. After over 5,000 votes (approximately the same number who voted in the 2016 video of the year contest), London pop punkers with a rap makeover, Youth Killed It, just took home the crown. They were engaged in a week…
Having seen Babymetal’s Karate crowned Video Of The Year from our 2016 video of the week winners, it’s time to start over again for 2017. Our first contest of the year has five new videos and it’s a real varied mix this time – everything from what could be described as a black metal Johnny…
It seems there is no stopping Babymetal, or more specifically their legions of fans. We presented our readers with our twelve favourite video of the week winners from 2016 and let you decide the winner. In the end, over 5,000 of you voted, and Babymetal narrowly beat out Bristol goths Ashestoangels to take home the…
A newcomer to Rock Sins in 2016, so this makes it Charlie Harris’ first time contributing to our end of year awards. So, let’s see what he made of the last twelve months… 1) Album of the year: Bury Tomorrow – Earthbound Bury tomorrow have been one of my all time favourite metal bands and…
The next entrant in Rock Sins traditional end of year awards is longtime contributor and senior writer James Halstead. Never one to shy away from a strong opinion or two, here is what James made of 2016’s musical output… Album of the Year – Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Taking the blueprint…
Continuing with our annual end of year awards, this time it’s the turn of James Weaver (who when he’s not writing for us, also contributes to Terrorizer. Oh, and he runs his own magazine, Distorted Sound too). Here’s what James had to say about the releases and happenings of the last twelve months: Album of…
