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…
Around the start of March, Rock Sins decided to introduce a video of the week feature. Whilst we’ve not always been able to run it every week, since it’s introduction we’ve had 24 installments and it’s gone on to become one of our most popular parts of the website. So it’s only fitting that we…
They’ve already opened for Guns N’Roses and are currently in the UK supporting The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Now Babymetal are going another step further towards conquering the world by opening for none other than Metallica on the Korean stop of Metallica’s 2017 Worldwired Tour in Seoul on the 11th of January. All three members…
As they gear up to once again headline Reading and Leeds Festivals this weekend, US rock royalty The Red Hot Chili Peppers have just announced a very quick return to the UK. Antony, Flea, Chad and Josh will be back in the UK in December for a huge seven date arena tour. What’s more, they’ve…
Babymetal. I’m sure you’ve heard that name by now. The young J-Pop idols singing cute and innocent lyrics about chocolate and bubblegum over blastbeats and shredding guitar solos have created a major stir in the western world, both in the mainstream and in the rock and metal scene, with their self-titled debut album in 2014….
