It’s time once again for Slam Dunk to kick off the festival season. Returning to Hatfield house with its biggest line up yet, Slam Dunk looked set to get the season going with a bang and it did not disappoint. Whether it was the traditional pop-punk bands, NOFX’s Punk In Drublic festival or the amazing hardcore bands on…
Slam Dunk Festival 2019 is now just a handful of days away (seriously, how did it get so close so quickly?!) and we cannot wait. To help get you all in the mood for Slam Dunk, we’ve got a playlist for you all to spin. Featuring twenty six epic songs you might well hear across…
A couple of weeks ago, Cancer Bats and their touring friends Bleed From Within and Underside hit the Cambridge Junction for a night of metal fueled fun. Our photographer Daniel Ackerley-Holmes was on hand to capture all the action from Cancer Bats, so check out his extensive gallery of all the night’s action below. You…
January is generally pretty rubbish all things considered, everyone is on the big Christmas comedown and it tends to be pretty miserable and boring. Every now and then though something comes along and adds a little light to proceedings and in this case that would be Cancer Bats and chums who are back on these…
As we’re now just 16 days away from the gates of the Download Festival 2018 campsite opening for the first time, it is of course time for Rock Sins to continue our build up for our annual pilgramage to Donington. Those of a wrestling persuasion among our readers may have already seen our NXT at…
This weeks’ installment of the Rock Sins Spotify playlist is once again jam packed with great new singles, tracks from upcoming and recently released albums, and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. Kicking things off with the mighty Architects “Nihilist”, we feature songs from a number of albums recently released by bands…
Nowadays it’s common for albums to have an excessive amount of time dedicated to pre-release hype. The teaser of an announcement, the first single and the actual announcement are all steps in this excessively long process. This makes it so refreshing when a band completely scraps this process and just drops a surprise album. Which…
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…
Three venues (including one new bigger one), eight stages and almost seventy bands. Put them all together and you have the recipe for success at the Slam Dunk Festival triple header for 2016! From our headliners Panic! At The Disco to Creeper, and from Young Guns to Heart Of A Coward, there are acts on…
Words: Sam Dignon. Photos: Fran Dignon After headlining some of the biggest venues of their career in 2015, Cancer Bats returned to the UK at the beginning of this year to play a bunch of far more intimate show. Incite (5) kicked things off tonight with a set of fairly bland metal. It wasn’t awful…
2015 has been yet another great year for Cancer Bats. They’ve torn apart The Pit Stage at Reading and Leeds, threatened the foundations of London’s legendary 100 club, and put on one hell of a co-headline tour with their friends While She Sleeps. Now Cancer Bats have announced their most extensive UK tour to date,…
Hit The Deck is Bristol and Nottingham’s annual, raucous start to the festival season. With a bill that gets bigger every year, this event has been one of the UK’s premier indoor festivals since its inception. Things are changed around a little at the Nottingham leg this year; the wristbands are made from paper not…
