Following on from Sam Savigny kicking off the 2017 Rock Sins End Of Year Awards, it’s the turn of one of our senior writers Sam Dignon to pick his highlights and lowlights. Over to you Sam! Album of the year: The Menzingers – After The Party 2017 was packed with several amazing albums but their…
It’s that time of the year again where Rock Sins team members make their choices of the good, the great and the questionable from the last twelve months. First up for 2017 is one of our newest contributors, Sam Savigny. Take it away Sam! Album of the Year 2017: Employed to Serve – The Warmth…
Well, Trivium aren’t messing about here are they?! Having not long ago released one of the albums of the year in the shape of The Sin And The Sentence, they’ve now announced an enormous UK and European Tour with a huge supporting cast. Joining Trivium on the run of UK shows in Mid April are…
Code Orange are one of the most unique and intense bands in music right now, creating nightmarish soundscapes that are impossible to escape. Their newest album Forever is already one of 2017’s best and they have been touring relentlessly in support of it, including a stop at this year’s Download Festival. I was able to…
Team Rock Sins was out in force at Download 2017, so in order to make our festival coverage from this year’s Download the most enjoyable and readable it can be, we’ve decided to break things up a bit. Here’s our view of what happened on The Avalanche Stage and The Dogtooth Stage on the first…
With only four weeks between now and the deluge known as Download Festival, it’s about time we had a glance at who’s gracing the third and largest tent stage this year, entitled The Avalanche Stage and hosted by none other than Kerrang! Packed with acts that are seeing in their second Download and beyond, Donington…
After releasing Magma to critical acclaim last year. It looked like Gojira were finally becoming one of the biggest names in modern metal. Now almost a year later, Gojira finally embarked on their first UK headline tour for Magma and they had brought an incredibly strong line up with them. Car Bomb (7) open the show with an barrage of riffs…
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…
Code Orange have been one of the most talked about bands in heavy music recently. Their third album Forever received insane amounts of praise for how it’s taken the band in a bold new direction. Recently out on the road supporting Gojira we got the chance to sit down with Code Orange guitarist and vocalist Reba Meyers to discuss how…
Hardcore is often seen as a very limited genre, it’s so entrenched in its own values and it’s very rare that bands step outside these. In 2014 Code Orange pushed the boundaries of the genre with I Am King, when they ditched the Kids from their name it was more than just a name change. The band evolved into…