Words: Olde Nick 666 @oldenick666 Photos: Tess Donohoe Last year Trivium headlined a UK festival for the first time at Bloodstock before unleashing latest album “Silence In The Snow” back in October. As always the band split opinions with the new work. Almost six months later how would British crowds react to the new songs…
Words: Sam Dignon. Photos: Fran Dignon After headlining some of the biggest venues of their career in 2015, Cancer Bats returned to the UK at the beginning of this year to play a bunch of far more intimate show. Incite (5) kicked things off tonight with a set of fairly bland metal. It wasn’t awful…
Words: Olde Nick Live photos: Tess Donohoe One of the highlights of 2014’s Sonisphere was Northern Irish trio Therapy? playing their hit 1995 album “Infernal Love” to a packed Bohemia tent – review here. The band were so bowled over by the reception that a full tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of the LP was…
When Sylosis are in town, Rock Sins will usually follow. However throw in death metal legends Decapitated and British newcomers The King Is Blind and the evenings’ appeal went from very interesting to mandatory attendance. James was duly dispatched to report on what unfolded. The King is Blind (6) prove a more than adequate warmup…
Words: Olde Nick @oldenick666 Photos: Tess Donohoe Swedish metal marauders Amon Amarth have just unleashed their tenth studio album and Rock Sins was lucky enough to squeeze into the launch gig in London… More than a millennium after ships from the North bearing wild hairy beasts of men landed upon British shores there has been…
Whenever Machine Head reach UK shores, Rock Sins will generally seek them out. We went along to the opening night of their “An Evening With” tour at a new venue for our team, the rather impressive “Open” in Norwich to see how things would unfold. In true Machine Head style, things kicked off with what…
A combination of setting, staging and a great performance makes The Astonishing a total triumph. Going into a Dream Theater gig with a sense of trepidation was new territory. You know the musicianship will be virtually flawless if not perfect, but when you’re going to be sitting through an album that’s provoked an incredibly mixed…
Escape The Fate have been on something of a resurgence recently. Their UK tour was loaded up with some big name supports in the form of New Years Day and Fearless Vampire Killers, so we sent Will Stevenson along to check out the action in Manchester. New Year’s Day (6) return to a venue they…
Max Cavalera doesn’t know the meaning of “day off”. The man’s released at least one album every year since 2008 and when he’s not in the studio, he’s out on the road. Now he’s bringing the Maximum Cavalera Tour to the UK once more with additional support from King Parrot before preparing to work on…
With news of Hevy Fest 2016 filtering through, we thought it was about time we posted the second half of our Hevy Fest 2015 photo extravaganza! With bands such as The Colour Line, Trash Boat, Milk Teeth, Vales, Blood Youth, Fort Hope, As It Is, Arcane Roots, The Fall Of Troy, Monuments, Carniflex and of…
The Black Dahlia Murder have long been firm favourites of ours here at Rock Sins. So when they were set to return to London, and at Camden’s Underworld venue no less, then attendance was compulsory! As we often do in these situations, we sent James Halstead along to survey, and take part in, the carnage…
Words by Olde Nick @oldenick666 Live photos by Tess Donohoe @tess_donohoe Before X-mess Satan Claws delivered an early present in the form of a tour by Austrian black metal masters Belphegor with American death metallers Vital Remains, Polish heavyweights Hate and the UK’s own Ethereal in tow. Olde Nick and Tess went to check out…
