Following on from Jamie’s picks of the best of 2015, today it’s the turn of one of Rock Sins’ most long serving contributors, James Halstead. We’re suspicious that we might see some more Lamb of God love this time around, but let’s dive in and find out…. Album Of The Year – While She Sleeps…
Orange Goblin are something of a British metal institution. Having recently celebrated their 20th anniversary together as a band, it was only right that back at the end of the Summer, Rock Sins caught up with their guitar Joe Hoare and bassist Martyn Millard on the final day of the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival…
After Trivium brought a conclusion to the end of the first night proper at Bloodstock Open Air 2015, Team Rock Sins was up nice and early to catch some of the finest British metal talent Catton Hall had to offer. Anyone who missed our review of Thursday and Friday can check it out here, otherwise…
Words by James Halstead and Nick Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. Another year, another Bloodstock and Team Rock Sins were there as usual to document all the action with possibly their biggest and most in-depth coverage yet! Here’s the first part of our review, covering the Thursday night headliners; Arnocorps and all of the Friday…
The annual Bloodstock Open Air Festival held at Catton Hall has always catered to the more extreme end of tastes with both a friendly and intimate atmosphere and a consistently fantastic lineup. This year is no different with death metal heavyweights Cannibal Corpse and Death To All making appearances alongside headliners Trivium, Rob Zombie and…
Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2015 is looming large on the horizon, being just over a month away already! For something slightly different, we thought we’d compile a selection of great songs and their accompanying videos by some of the many fantastic artists appearing at Catton Hall this August. So, here’s 15 videos by 15 of…
Things are about to ballsy in the UK once again! The world’s most famous action heroes who are also a metal band, Arnocorps, are returning to the UK for an audio assault as only Arnocorps can be provide. With their “Austrian folk tales” such as Predator, Last Action Hero and Total Recall being turned into…
With the festival season drawing ever closer, the Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2015 organisers have announced news of seven new bands who will take to the Sophie Lancaster Stage over the course of the weekend for BOA 2015. First up are Rock Sins’ great friends and masters of the riff, London sludge metal outfit Hang…
Over the last few weeks, the powers that be at Catton Hall have added yet more tremendous bands to the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival line up. We’ve been a bit remiss in providing an update about that, so we thought we’d do the honourable thing and have a catch up. After delighting their long…
With the build up to festival season well and truly under way as the UK shivers it’s way through a cold February, the latest additions to Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2015 may warm the hearts and minds of many. Making their début in the prestigious Sunday night special guest slots to headliner Rob Zombie are…
Spent the majority of your money until the end of January but still desperate to get your hands on a 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival ticket? Then the Bloodstock deposit scheme’s return may be the answer to all your problems, or just a welcome convenience you’d like to use anyway! The BOA deposit scheme is…
Well this is well and truly going to raise the ire of those who see Bloodstock Open Air as the festival “for the metal underground”. The final headliners for this years BOA extravaganza have just been announced and it is none other than Florida’s finest metal export of recent times Trivium! Having put in several…
