Put the words Suicide Silence and The Borderline together in a sentence and the first thought that should come to mind is “absolute carnage”. Rock Sins sent James and Sam along to Suicide Silence’s first headline London show with new vocalist Eddie Hermida to find out what a Suicide Silence v2 gig is all about….
Having been busy working on their fourth album for the last few months, Hertfordshire electro rock quartet Enter Shikari decided upon home turf for their first major UK gig of 2014. Rock Sins sent James along to witness the Shikari live comeback in the flesh… First up, Roam (6) are competent enough in their delivery…
In the second part of our coverage of Download Festival 2014’s middle Saturday, our hardcore / metalcore specialist Sam caught several bands that Jamie has not already covered in the first part of our Saturday review (read that here if you’ve missed it for coverage of the likes of Linkin Park, Killswitch Engage, Fozzy, Bowling…
Following the exploits of Avenged Sevenfold, Opeth and many more from the previous night, once again the Download Festival arrived at “Middle Saturday” with the promise of many more great performances. If you missed the first part of our Download 2014 review covering Friday you can catch up with it right here! In a unique…
In his first article for Rock Sins in some time, Nick Holmes rose from his sick bed with one thing on his mind; Metallica. He braved the braying hordes of hipsters and puddles of mud (sic) to witness metal finally hitting Glastonbury in the flesh…. When Metallica were announced as the big Saturday night headliner…
Words by Matt Hill and Jamie Giberti, photos by Jamie Giberti. As far as the last few years ago, the amount of new music festivals that the UK has seen come (and in many cases go) is almost innumerable. Occasionally from the glut of new events certain ones rise from the pack to become events…
As you might expect, having recently returned from the yearly soiree to Donington for the 2014 Download Festival, Rock Sins will have loads of coverage in the coming days and weeks. But before all of that takes over our lives for the next god knows how long, we had a few things we wanted to…
In his third recap from the excellent Beyond the Redshift Festival 2014, Matt bring us coverage of Norwegian black metal masters God Seed, who arose from the ashes of Gorgoroth a few years ago. Let us dive straight in… Right, onto the stand-out band of the day, and as I’d seen CULT OF LUNA before,…
Words by Matt Hill, Intro & Photos by Jamie Giberti. The second of our in-depth individual band reviews from the superb Beyond the Redshift festival comes in the form of Irish group God is An Astronaut. Without anything further, it’s over to Matt… After quenching one’s thirst with a delightful drink and some standard conversation…
Words by Matt Hill, Intro and Photos by Jamie Giberti. Our first in-depth band review from the wonderful and unique Beyond the Redshift festival features one of post-metal / noise most revered figures and one of his many bands. Matt recaps how it occurred. At a festival with a roster dripping in ambiance, post-rock and…
Fans of technical metal were in for a treat tonight as Born Of Osiris brought their current UK tour to Manchester. After The Burial, Betraying The Martyrs and Buried In Verona rounded off tonight’s line up with some of the most impressive bands working their way up the metal scene right now. ‘Openers Buried In Verona (7) are stuck in the unfortunate…
Being a Canterbury resident for most of the year the news that Feed the Rhino were playing a 40 minute bus ride away was just too tempting for James, so without further ado he picks up the action with second support band, Zoax… Zoax (8) are the first band Rock Sins are able to catch (sorry…
