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…
We had a chat with James Cook and James Britton of Welsh metallers Anterior during their UK tour supporting Sylosis. Rocksins: The metal scene in the UK is thriving right now, do you find it hard to stand out? James Cook (Drums): I’d say so, I think every band nowadays has to work harder. There’s…
After releasing one of the best metal albums of the year, Awaken the Tides, we caught up with Dale Butler, the prolific front man of Reading metal band Malefice for a quick chat. Rocksins: Your new album, Awaken the Tides, came out earlier in the year, how has the reaction been so far? Dale Butler:…
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…
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.
An Canadan christian rocker Marc Martel has posted a video to youtube after getting comments after gigs with his band “downhere”. “After every show my band does, I probably get ten people who say, ‘Hey! Anybody ever tell you sound like that Queen guy?” Martel told CBC News in an interview. [youtube id=”dREKkAk628I” width=”600″ height=”350″] Marc…
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…
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…
Last year, our friends from Cack Blabbath, particularly Iain put together TwitrFest, the first festival organised around and through Twitter. It was such a success that they’ve decided to do it all over again, and this is the first announcement. For the 2012 installment of Twitrfest it’s moving from Birmingham to slightly further north, Wakefield…
The metal community is known as a friendly, generous bunch of people for the most part, but it’s always inspiring to hear or read about something like this. Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe, along with his wife are taking part in a huge fundraiser for a breast cancer charity. Stories like this always help…
