It has been six long years since Slayer hung up their instruments and called it a day. Bringing their monumental career to a close on November 30th at The Forum in L.A. With the image of guitarist Kerry King’s chains left on the stage after the gig remaining etched in the minds of metal fans…
Following their billing as part of Black Sabbaths ‘Back To The Beginning’ farewell show this July. Bay Area legends, Slayer have announced their long awaited return to the UK this summer. With two massive headline shows at Blackweir Fields in Cardiff and Londons Finnsbury Park on July 3rd and July 6th respectively. For nearly fifty…
As Machine Head main man Robb Flynn himself said, It’s Saturday night in London F***ing England! This past Saturday saw one of the metal tours of the year come to town, and there were plenty of fans through the doors early for the London debut of The Halo Effect (8). What follows is one of…
Raise your horns (of the metal hand kind) and fill your horns (of the drinking kind) for Amon Amarth have returned from their latest voyage offering up their latest creation, The Great Heathen Army. It’s enough to make Odin himself rejoice…or is it? (Spoiler alert: it is). Amon Amarth haven’t sounded this vibrant in well…
It’s a new week, which means we have a new playlist for you as well! As usual we have a big ole’ mix of tracks for you to enjoy. Starting thing off we have the eagerly awaited and quite frankly V I C I O U S new track from Stray From The Path as…
Birthed by the time afforded by the pandemic, for fans of the Gothenberg melodeath scene, new band The Halo Effect are a true supergroup. Their credibility in this area is second to none with each member being a part of In Flames at one point. Made up of Mikael Stanne (vocals/dark tranquility), guitarists Niclas Engelin…
A fairly quiet week in the Rock Sins video of the week but a worthy winner none the less. With their recent Download Festival performance in the bank and their huge tour with Arch Enemy and Hypocrisy recently announced it’s a busy time for Amon Amarth. To add to all of that, they’ve now come…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
Time for a brand new video of the week contest! We’ve got six very different bands with six very different songs and videos battling it out for your votes this week. Having set Download ablaze, almost literally, and with three mammoth shows at the end of November announced for English scores, Amon Amarth unleash hell…
It’s high time we updated our Spotify playlist. Now that the craziness of Slam Dunk and Download is out of the way for another year, we’ve got a fresh bands of tunes old and new for our readers and Spotify subscribers! In terms of new tracks, there’s plenty of great stuff. New singles have arrived…
Following their titanic set at the 2019 Download Festival (review coming very soon) – Viking metal giants Amon Amarth have announced a huge UK tour. Returning at the end of the year, Amon Amarth are returning for three shows in Birmingham, Manchester and London. They’re not coming alone either – they are bringing some great…
A new Amon Amarth album is always an event in the metal world. Our resident metal minstrels of the tales of the vikings have been steadily growing in popularity ever since their big breakthrough almost fifteen years ago courtesy of With Oden On Our Side. Their latest album, Beserker, seems set to propel them to…
