48 hours is a long time in the music industry. Since we published our preview of the first part of Download Festival 2024, we’ve had over half a dozen bands – Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Overpower and Negative Frame, and then slightly later Ithaca – decide to drop off various parts of the Download…
Hot off the heels of their recent announcement welcoming their newest member, MOMOMETAL to the band. Kawaii J-rockers BABYMETAL turned up the heat once again this week. Dropping their first single featuring the freshly updated line-up, the suitably entitled, ‘Metali’. Packing a special guest appearance from Rage Against The Machine alumni Tom Morello. ‘Metali’ is…
Welcome back to the Rock Sins Weekly Playlist! Our first instalment of 2023 is jam packed with new tracks from the first part of the new year, with everyone from Fall Out Boy to Metallica! We may as well kick off with Fall Out Boy, as their new single Love From The Other Side is…
It has been an interesting past year for Babymetal. While continuing to tour relentlessly after the success of their sophomore effort Metal Resistance, the group was hit by the departure of Yui Mizuno in late 2018 due to undisclosed health reasons, and the core group reverted to a duo of Suzuka Nakamoto and Moa Kikuchi….
Things have been a little quiet from Download Festival HQ recently. We’ve had new line up announcements from the likes of Slam Dunk Festival and Bloodstock Open Air for 2020. Oh, not forgetting the stunning first announcement from ArcTanGent too! So an announcement from the Download Festival 2020 team was due. Lo and behold, they’ve…
We long suspected Creeper’s “farewell show” last November was not all it appeared to be. Thankfully for lovers of the Callous Heart everywhere, exactly one year later they returned. After playing a blinding show at London’s 229 venue under the pseudonym Fugitives Of Heaven (which promptly sold out in seconds as everyone knew it was…
The followers of The Fox God have triumphed once again. As they often do when they feature in our video of the week contests, Babymetal have romped home to victory. They scored over 80% of the votes, leaving Killswitch Engage a distant second place with 15% and the rest of the entrants back on the…
It’s been awhile since we’ve run a video of the week contest, but it’s back with a bang! Here’s the latest selection of videos for our lovely readers to pick a winner from. Our opening selection this week has been around for a little while, but we love it so much we had to include….
With Download 2018 in full swing, there were a feast of musical offerings of all blends of metal on offer on middle Saturday. Team Rock Sins runs you through the best and the worst of what went down across the day on our favourite stage sponsored by a certain lighter maker. With more riffs per…
It’s now less than two weeks until the hallowed gates at Donington Park open for the 2018 Download Festival (at least for the campsite), and here at Rock Sins’ the build up continues! Having already covered day one of the festival with our preview of the Friday of Download 2018, as well as what you…
It’s time for another weeks worth of new and classic tunes with the Rock Sins Spotify Playlist! We are kicking things off this week with The Woodpile by Frightened Rabbit in tribute to their frontman Scott Hutchison, who left us all a few days ago. Our deepest sympathies to his family, friend and bandmates from…
It seems there is no stopping Babymetal, or more specifically their legions of fans. We presented our readers with our twelve favourite video of the week winners from 2016 and let you decide the winner. In the end, over 5,000 of you voted, and Babymetal narrowly beat out Bristol goths Ashestoangels to take home the…
