Words by Jamie Giberti and Ali Cooper. We’re just over six weeks away from the annual mudfest that is the Download Festival at Donington Park (we must SURELY be due a dry year this time, surely, please?). As is always the case, “the little tent”, currently known as The Dogtooth Stage, has a wide and…
In a couple of weeks time, the UK will bear witness to a very special event: the 25th anniversary tour celebration of Dream Theater’s Images and Words album. Whilst “the album anniversary tour” has become such a regular occurrence to some over recent years that the unique appeal of them has become diluted to a…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
Summer 2016 was one of change for Swedish melodeath giants Soilwork. The band had seen great critical success with 2015’s The Ride Majestic and were preparing to tour in support of new rarities compilation Death Resonance when news broke that longtime drummer Dirk Verbeuren had left to join Bay Area thrash icons Megadeth. This didn’t…
For a long time here at Rock Sins we’ve debated setting up a video of the week feature. Now, in February 2016, we’ve finally got off our arses and done it. So, who will be the first winner? We’ve got a real varied selection for our first video of the week contest. Japanese metal crossover…
