t’s that time once again! The Rock Sins Playlist has been refilled for your listening pleasure. 20 new tracks all across the rock, metal and alternative musical spectrum. This week we also give a nod to the Download Festival 2023 announcement with three classics from your Download headliners! Kicking off the playlist this week is…
As Everything Unfolds have been on a roll since the release of their smash hit, breakout debut album Within Each Lies The Other in the Spring of 2021. It may feel like a lifetime ago now for some, but back in the warm days of early Summer, Rock Sins caught up with frontwoman Charlie Rolfe…
After three years without the full Download Festival experience (with much love to the Download Pilot), Rock Sins joined the assembled thousands flocking back to Donington for Download 2022. As always, the main musical entertainment was spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the festival, but there was a huge amount of extra entertainment on…
Think back to June 2021. The Download Pilot festival took place in front of 10,000 lucky and willing festival going test subjects, as part of the first Government Pilot aimed at getting the UK live music scene back on its feet after the various lockdowns. Those in attendance, and thousands more at home living the…
As Everything Unfolds were one of the breakout stories of the UK metal scene of 2021. In spite of things being disrupted by COVID, they made a huge splash, and Within Each Lies The Other was one of the releases of the year. So the prospect of seeing them at a Camden Assembly that sold…
The line up for the 2022 Download Festival has taken further shape this morning with 14 more acts joining the party. A couple of bands who have had huge success over the last year have also been rewarded with new slots on bigger stages! Kicking things off in the biggest main stage slot of their…
It’s that time of the week again – the Rock Sins Weekly Spotify Playlist has been updated with a fresh set of songs for your listening pleasure. A wide range of new tunes of all varieties is balanced out this week with one or two old (newish) favourites from the likes of Devin Townsend, Spiritbox…
Holding Absence have had one hell of a year. In spite of the COVID pandemic, they’ve managed not only to release one of the best albums of the year (The Greatest Mistake Of My Life), but play a big part in the return of live music to the UK. Starting off with what was by…
Interviewing the great and the good of the world of rock and metal from bands of all sizes is one of the things sites like Rock Sins love to do. And while zoom and MS Teams and various other means of doing online video calls have been a linelife and a godsend since the COVID…
A couple of days before the Download Pilot, I wrote a feature about the importance of the Download Festival family to so many of us. The response to the piece was far beyond anything I ever hoped for or expected; It was great to talk to loads of people who read it about their Download…
Sitting musically somewhere between Dream State, Enter Shikari and That’s The Spirit-era Bring Me The Horizon with a dash of metalcore, Buckinghamshire six piece As Everything Unfolds have been building up to the release of their new EP Closure for the last several months. The EP’s release is upon us next week, so it is…
After Halflives win last time out, it’s time for another six bands to do battle in Rock Sins video of the week. Kicking things off this time are none other than some familiar lads from St Albans…. Enter Shikari are a band known for having creative and varied music videos, but this time, they’ve not…
