The Download Festival team have pulled out all the stops for a mega first announcement of Download 2021! As promised by festival booker Andy Copping, the bulk of the 2020 lineup has re-joined the party for 2021, but with some interesting new additions and replacements for those who couldn’t rejoin from 2020. Headliners KISS (on…
Welcome to Rock Sins Weekly, our brand-new digest of the week’s news. We’ll be covering a broad range of topics from the big headlines, gig and festival announcements, album launches, new singles and everything that goes up on rocksins.com This week we discuss Robb Flynn’s Instagram post regarding the new song, Do Or Die, Edsel…
This is an album that will leave many heads in need of scratching, but once it clicks it is a fulfilling and deeply involved piece of work that could warrant academic essays on its subject matter.
Back in the good old days, MTV used to play music and lots of it. During its heyday in the 80s and 90s, MTV had it’s finger well and truly on the musical pulse and one of its most popular shows was MTV Unplugged, a series which saw some of the biggest artists of the…
Following Friday night’s jubilation and partying into the early hours after Sum 41 and System Of A Down, team Rock Sins returned fresh, and not sporting too many hangovers, to tackle the second day of Download 2017, Middle Saturday. If you haven’t yet checked out our Friday coverage from Download 2017 and would like to…
Twenty more acts have been announced by the organisers of Download Festival, taking place at “rock’s spiritual home” Donington Park on 9 – 11 June. Canadian prog-metal professor Devin Townsend will bring his very own Devin Townsend Project to the event after a recent successful UK tour. He will be joined by highly-rated newcomers Code…
Continuing our summary of the great and the good (and the not so good) from 2016, our writer and photographer Connor Morris takes his turn to step up to the plate with his 2016 End of Year Awards. Over to you Connor! 1) Album Of The Year – Touche Amore – Stage Four In a…
Continuing with the traditional Rock Sins end of year awards, this time it’s the turn of one of our senior photographers, Fran Dignon, to make her choices from the past twelve months. Over to Fran! 1) Album of the year: The Interrupters – Say It Out Loud Not only would I say The Interrupters put…
It’s Download Festival announcement time of year once again and the first announcement has served up not one, or two, but all three of 2017’s headliners! Kicking things off this year on Friday night are System Of A Down. With things much improved in the S.O.A.D camp since their ill-fated reunion performance in 2011, Daron,…
It’s that time of year again where the Rocksins staff pick their great, good and not so good from the past year. First up this time around is James. 1) Album of the year: Chapters – The Imperial Skies I reviewed this earlier this year, but in short its one of the best progressive metal…
Having already run through the first two thirds of this years Reading Festival with her coverage of Friday and Saturday, here’s the final part of our reporter on the ground Danni Page’s Reading coverage with a look at the Sunday of the event. If you missed her Friday review or Saturday review, you can catch…
After pulling off quite a surprise with their choice of Eminem as first headliner for the 2013 installment, the organisers at Reading & Leeds have returned to slightly more familiar territory for their second choice of headliner. Having headlined at Sonisphere Knebworth in 2011 in their festival headlining breakthrough and after sub-headlining Metallica at the…
