It’s been a month or so since we all went back to the rigours of reality… sometimes it’s fortunate to be busy and delay the required. Now you too can reminisce with a skeleton guide to how a festival usually goes; Rock Sins style. THURSDAY For the first time in (my) own Download history, I…
After the previous day’s activities, the Rocksins team and friends did what any veteran Download attendees tend to do. You probably think this means get a decent amount of sleep, when it reality it means blasting some metal into the wee hours and getting considerably less sleep than one should, perfect preparation for what will…
After two days of enduring pretty much everything that the British climate could throw at us short of lightning striking our campsite, the arrival of Friday at Donington Park made us grateful for two reasons. One the weather had relented ever so slightly, and two it was time for some music to hopefully help make…
For any fans of thrash metal or especially the big four, one of them coming to London to do a headline show is a big deal. It swiftly becomes a much bigger deal when for the second time in four months, one of the aforementioned Big Four decide to play a tiny club show in…
Team Rocksins is officially back from Donington Park after the wettest and muddiest Download so far to date and in spite of the weather we think most of those (if not all) in attendance would agree it was one of, if not the best Download so far. Rocksins was lucky enough to have behind the…
So we’re now under a week to go to Download’s tenth anniversary and it’s fair to say the excitement is really building all over the place, not least here at Rocksins. This is the third and final part of our Download preview, so if you’ve happened to miss the first two parts (how dare you),…
Sometimes the music business moves extremely quickly, and this is one of those times. Aurora, a five piece metal band from Birmingham, were spotted supporting Feed The Rhino last week by In At The Deep End Records. Liking what they say, IATDE wasted absolutely no time in inking Aurora to a record deal. The band…
Promoting their brand new debut full length album, entitled “Topless”, UK rockers Slide On Venus have released the first single and music video from their new album. The video for the single, entitled “Celsius & Fahrenheit”, can be seen below: [youtube id=”Xqawqjeuf3w” width=”600″ height=”350″] “Topless” has been released through the Domino Media Group and can…
A few weeks back we announced that one of the rising stars of US hard rock Halestorm were heading over to the UK in September for a tour (the original announcement is here). Well we’ve now got a bit of an update on that announcement as Halestorm have announced the support bands for the tour….
Every now and then at Rocksins we like to report on the successes of rock or metal artists in the UK album charts and there’s been a fair bit of success the last couple of weeks that we think you should all know about. Last week, Tenacious D’s third studio album The Rize Of The…
