When Opeth announced plans last year to celebrate their 25 year anniversary with a show at the London Palladium, it sounded like a musical match made in heaven. Fast forward to 2 weeks ago and it was announced due to production issues the show was having to move to the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane…
Words by Jamie Giberti & Kim Bates. A sold out Cambridge Junction on a Wednesday night is always a great thing to see, as it is one of the UK’s best club venues, albeit also one of the sweatiest. With Cambridge boys Mallory Knox set to be in front of their hometown crowd everything was…
Her Blood In My Veins, formerly known as Aynth, is a one man band from Germany that’s spent a few years developing in the underground IDM scene. Despite only starting to release material in 2012, the project has been surprisingly prolific and new mini-album NOA is the 13th release by the project, and first under…
Words by James Halstead & Nick Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. With only one more day to go, it was time to wipe away the grime accumulated over the past several days and go again for one last round of metal mayhem for the final day of the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival. Anyone who’s…
Words by Sam Dignon, Photos by Fran Dignon. After a hugely eventful and jam packed first main day of Hevy Fest 2015 Team Rock Sins was raring to go for another round for the second full day festival. Anyone who missed our review of Friday can grab that here, along with our extensive and exclusive…
Above The Earth was formed by Russian industrial virtuoso Roman Arsafes and former Destiny Potato vocalist Aleksandra Radosavljevic after the latter’s departure from the Serbian pop-djent band in 2012. With their debut EP in the same year, they made a name for themselves in the Eastern European progressive metal scene and this year, with “Every…
Some readers may remember that last year I was given a demo to review by a young Yorkshire group called Sweet Exile, and that I had given it a somewhat lukewarm response. After taking time in the studio, the band has come back and challenged me to review their full debut EP and to see…
After some great acoustic sets on the Thursday night from Jamie Lenman, Sam Duckworth, Dave Mcpherson and more it was time for Hevy Festival 2015 to kick off properly. Opening the third stage, Wraiths (7) got things off to an impressive start. Their down tempo metal was relentlessly heavy and had just enough technicality to avoid being a boring…
After Trivium brought a conclusion to the end of the first night proper at Bloodstock Open Air 2015, Team Rock Sins was up nice and early to catch some of the finest British metal talent Catton Hall had to offer. Anyone who missed our review of Thursday and Friday can check it out here, otherwise…
Words by James Halstead and Nick Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. Another year, another Bloodstock and Team Rock Sins were there as usual to document all the action with possibly their biggest and most in-depth coverage yet! Here’s the first part of our review, covering the Thursday night headliners; Arnocorps and all of the Friday…
As one of the leading bands of the New Grave movement, there’s a definite buzz surrounding Ashestoangels right now. Tonight they brought the British Horror Story tour to London for a intimate show at the Camden Barfly. With Farwell, My Love making their first trip to the UK as well there was plenty for fans to look forward to…
Since his ignominious departure from Asking Alexandria in January, Danny Worsnop has been pouring his blood, sweat and tears in to new effort We Are Harlot. What started as a side project are now the main event, and the classic rock orientated, multi nation 4 piece certainly are Harlot. Looking around, it is obvious that 95% of…
