One of post-metal’s most loved bands, Pelican are making their first trip to UK shores in over four years as they return for a headlining tour that will cover the length of England in April 2012. The tour will be Pelican’s first trip to the UK since 2008 and tickets are sure to go quickly!…
Arguably one of metal’s ultimate creative geniuses of the last fifteen years, the maestro that is Devin Townsend has announced the biggest solo headline show of his career thus far. Fresh from four nights in London at the Union Chapel that saw him play four different albums on four different evenings, Devin has announced a…
The worst kept secret from the last few days is out: Black Sabbath are back and they are the second headliners announced for the 10th edition of The Download Festival, Download 2012. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Gezer Butler and Bill Ward announced yesterday at a press conference in California that they would be embarking on…
Ok, so we got it half right. As widely speculated and rumoured across the Internet over the last day or so, Metallica are indeed returning to Castle Donington to headline the 2012 installment of The Download Festival, their third time headlining the festival in its ten years in its current format. Lars, Rob, Kirk and…
In Mind Blowing news it seems that Metallica and Lou Reed are set to be the first announced headliner of Download Festival 2012. The Internet speculation has gone into overdrive this afternoon, being fuelled by both Andy Copping (Download Festival booker) and Zane Lowe with some carefully phrased tweeting Maverick_AC: Just one big fuck off headliner…
Last month, Rise To Remain completed an extensive nationwide UK tour taking in venues all over the country including some cities that a lot of metal bands often leave off their touring schedules such as Cambridge (you can read the review of Rise To Remain’s Cambridge show here). I was able to catch up with…
Rock Sins has teamed up with our friends at Roadrunner Records to bring you an exclusive competition to win some rare and signed Staind gear. One lucky winner will win rare CD singles of “The Way I Am” and “All I Want” along with the CD single of “beLIEve” signed by Aaron Lewis, Johnny April,…
It’s weird. It’s downright scary in places. And now for the first time it has come to British Television. Last night Metallica & Lou Reed premièred their collective works on UK prime time TV on the Later With Jools Holland show on BBC2. James, Rob, Kirk, Lars and Lou played two songs from “Lulu” –…
Fresh from one of the most epic UK festival performances of recent years after a performance which threatened to knock down the Bohemia tent at Sonisphere Knebworth this summer, Rock Sins is delighted to announce the news that French metal maestros Gojira have signed a record deal with Roadrunner Records. Gojira are one of those…
They promised they would provide some new material before the end of the year and Paramore have made good on their promise. Their new song Hello Cold World is now streaming on the Internet and is available to listen to if you click the video below: [youtube id=”KFj06n0DmwA” width=”600″ height=”350″] Paramore, who’s full time line…
Here at Rocksins we like to try and do our bit to help promote up and coming new rock and metal bands, particularly British ones. So we’re very happy to announce that Betraeus, a death metal band with progressive elements to their sound hailing from Manchester have announced a headline tour of the UK for…
Over the last few years, Rocksins.com has been big supporters of Bowling For Soup, and in my opinion deservedly so. Bowling For Soup are a band who in my 7 years + of seeing them live have never put in anything other than a great live show, though this particular show looked set to challenge…
