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…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Sam Dignon, James Halstead, Jack Fermor-Worrell, Lisa Fox. The final part of Team Rock Sins’ Download Festival 2015 review may have been slightly longer in coming than planned, but with announcements for next years’ Download on the imminent horizon what better time for our 2015 coverage to come to an end….
