Legendary Californian speed thrash metal band Slayer has been confirmed to close next year’s Bloodstock Festival in Derbyshire next August. The fearsome foursome will top the bill on Sunday, following fellow headliners Twisted Sister (Friday) and Mastodon (Saturday). Kerry King and co. made their Bloodstock debut in 2013 just three months after the sad death…
As far as extreme metal news goes, it doesn’t get too much bigger than this. Polish extreme metal overlords Behemoth are to make their return to Bloodstock Open Air Festival in 2016 as the festival’s Friday night special guests. News of Behemoth returning to Catton Hall by itself is enough to make many weep with…
Needless to say, I have most definitely slacked and avoided a LOT that I shouldn’t have this year. Not surprisingly to those that know me, my attendance at gigs has almost evaporated in recent years, especially when you consider at one point in my life I was frequenting 4-5 gigs a week… What is surprising…
Welcome back! The next member of Team Rock Sins to offer up their 2014 End Of Year Awards is our man in the midlands Will Stevenson. Over to you Will…. 1) Album of the year Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues Trasngender Dysphoria Blues is a modern classic of a punk album. The lyrics are…
Middle Saturday. The day where attendees to Download are generally still going strong (in some cases just about) as we all head into the second day of rock and metal goodness. This year’s Middle Saturday in particular has a veritable smorgasbord of bands of all genres to be enjoyed. But before diving in, please check…
Well, surely it goes without saying this was always going to be a raw, absolute behemoth. Turns out it’s in parts slower, broodier and yet with equal apocalyptic darkness as past offerings. Proceedings begin with a fire that descends almost literally into Hell itself. Absolutely captivating and intriguing, I wait for the rest of the…
Continuing the battle between the UK’s rock and metal festivals, Andy Copping and his team over at Live Nation HQ have unleashed a royal haymaker of an announcement for the Download Festival 2014 with another two dozen bands joining the already sizeable existing bill. Top of the pile in this announcement is the news that…
And so, it falls to my turn to collate my own summary on the weird, wonderful and down-right frustrating releases of the year 2013. Let it be said, it hasn’t been the most notable year for music… but maybe that’s because Opeth and Mastodon were so relatively quiet 😉 –##– Album of the Year :…
Lords of extreme metal and Poland’s most famous metal exports, Behemoth have their new album The Satanist scheduled to crash into people’s record collections at the beginning of 2014. Before the full power of The Satanist is unleashed, the band recently released their first single from the new album, the wonderfully titled “Blow Your Trumpets…
With the build up to Behemoth’s brand new album “The Satanist” in full flow, the Polish masters of extreme metal have revealed their latest video masterpiece for the first single to be released from The Satanist. Entitled “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel”, the clip sees Behemoth push the boundaries once again to create some of their…
It’s not every day a line-up like this is announced for a show. A Behemoth tour or show of any sort by itself is cause for celebration throughout the metal community, with the Polish lords of extreme metal now back to full strength following Nergal’s battle with Leukemia. With their brand new album, entitled “The…
A triumphant return from a musical and medical perspective, metal fans across the UK and indeed the whole world will be delighted to know that Behemoth will make their triumphant return to the live stage during 2012’s edition of the Bloodstock Festival. Behemoth have been announced to headline the Friday night of the festival, This…
