Back to the Beginning, the heavy metal event of the decade, is set to take place at Villa Park in Birmingham this weekend. With iconic vocalist Ozzy Osbourne and Black Sabbath ready to take their final bow on Saturday night. Backed up by a who’s who of artists and special guests. Including Metallica, Guns ‘n’…
With Ozzy’s final farewell at Villa Park just a week away. The countries second city has gone Black Sabbath mad! With everything from tribute gigs and film premieres to pop-up shops and some of the coolest graffiti art we’ve seen in years. Birmingham is a metalheads paradise at the moment. Don’t worry though, we’ve put…
With the baking hot Download Festival 2025 now solidly in the rear view mirror, we here at Rock Sins are turning our eyes towards the rest of festival season. Reading & Leeds Festival 2025 is shaping up to be one of the most diverse and electrifying editions in its 55-year history, with the most recent…
Polaris are currently one of the most talked about bands in the Metalcore scene. Following the release of the band’s 2023 album Fatalism, their star has continued to rise. We caught up with guitarist Rick Schneider to discuss the success of Fatalism, how its connected with people and the growing support behind the band, we…
Within Temptation are one of the rock & metal world’s most enduring forces. For 3 decades now they have blazed their own trail and ascended up the metal hierarchy, leaving a lasting and unshakable impression on the world. We were lucky enough to catch up with guitarist Rudd Jolie and Stefan Helleblad to discuss Headlining…
Two Year Break, the London four piece made their Download Festival debut this year. They played a spirited set for the Donington faithful on the Wednesday night, giving fans and attendees their first taste of live music for the weekend. We caught up with frontman Brad Tyler to discuss playing Download, how it came about,…
We all know that Download Festival starts as soon as the gates open on a Wednesday lunchtime. With many fantastic events like The Takeover and some of our friends doing awesome DJ sets, District X and The Doghouse are definitely the place to be for the early arrivals. For Download 2025, it felt like the…
Our Download Festival 2025 preview has reached the final day! Having brought you Team Rock Sins’ thoughts on day one (Friday) and day two (Saturday), here we are with the preview of the last day of action; The Sunday of Download 2025. Arguably the most stacked line up of all three days, there are some…
Ahhhh, Download middle Saturday. The time when everyone is nicely settled in. Middle Saturday at Download 2025 has a very eclectic feeling. In fact, we put it to Download’s Senior Promoter Kamran Haq that it just might be the most eclectic main stage line up a day at the festival has ever had! Following on…
We are very much into the final countdown before the gates of Donington open for the 2025 Download Festival! We’ve got features aplenty to keep eager attendees excited as they countdown the days, and up today is our preview of the festival’s first full day of entertainment. Recently we caught up with Download Senior Booker…
It’s the final countdown to the 2025 Download Festival! With the gates of Donington opening in just six days, and the arena fully open a couple of days after, excitement is building. Rock Sins caught up with Download Festival Senior Booker Kamran Haq recently to cover a huge range of topics about this years’ Download….
Among the fastest rising stars on the UK metal scene. Defects have been going from strength to strength since the release of their debut album, Modern Error last year. So we jumped at the chance to catch up with drummer Harry Jennings and guitarist Luke Genders at this years Slam Dunk Festival. Check out our…
