Late yesterday, word reached the rock and metal community that the much loved Liverpudlian progressive rock / metal group Anathema are to take an indefinite hiatus. Citing the unprecedented world events brought on by COVID-19 over the last several months, as well as personal circumstances, as the band so aptly put it in their statement,…
Concluding our coverage of the summer’s great rock and metal shindig, Download 2017, just in time for the other biggest one, Bloodstock Open Air 2017, to take place, the review of the action of the final day begins with the Zippo Encore Stage. But first, make sure you check out the coverage from the other…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
With the 2014 Download Festival now less than two weeks away, it’s about that time of year again where Rock Sins picks out our acts that we really think you should see across the weekend. In part one of our preview, we’ve got ten bands we think you should see on the first day of…
We’ve all known it was returning to Download for another year, but it’s now finally been confirmed that the Jägermeister Acoustic Stage is back at Donington in 2014. Download 2014 will see a wide range of talent grace it’s acoustic sitting, including bands who are renown for putting on specialist acoustic shows such as prog…
Less than a fortnight after granting us fifteen new bands including Bowling For Soup, Opeth and Black Label Society, Andy Copping and the team at Download HQ have done it again. This latest announcement contains no less than twenty three acts ranging right across the broad spectrum of rock and metal, so without any further…
This was the first time that I’d actually seen Anathema in concert despite being a fan of their music for some time; Jamie however had seen them and had been none too impressed by the experience. With myself, as a ‘fan’, we debated their creditability but decided we’d both catch them at High Voltage to…
As 2010 draws itself to a close I have cast my minds eye back over what has been a fantastic year for music. We were posed a series of questions, Best Album, Best Gig, Best Festival, you get the idea, and off I went to answer these, or rather evading them, with my multiple choice…
