When the Devildriver and Cannibal Corpse co-headliner bill rolled into town we just had to go and check out what this great bill had to offer – The Black Dahlia Murder supporting just made this already great gig that bit more enticing. Hours of Penance (6) open up tonight’s bill of metal heavyweights – unfortunately…
Continuing the drip feed of new bands for Download 2013, the latest band to join the party at Donington Park are the recently revived nu metal act Coal Chamber. Frontman Dez Fafara, nowadays more famous for his other band Devildriver, has gotten back together with his old bandmates for a reunion. After a fair amount…
Hot off the presses, we have the latest news from the world of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2013 with two new bands, and also some catch up on some rather important news from last week that we didn’t manage to publish. Last week, Bloodstock announced their second headliners for the 2013 edition of the festival…
Stand by to have your heads blown off! If the prospect of Devildriver teaming up with death metal legends Cannibal Corpse to wreak havoc across Europe next year wasn’t exciting enough already, they’ve just gone and upped the metal brutality to new levels. Newly announced to join Devildriver and Cannibal Corpse are Detroit, MI’s favourite…
Just before we kick on with the final part of our Download 2012 review, for anyone who hasn’t read our previous coverage, there’s a few links for you here: Part 1 (Friday review) Part 2 (Saturday review) The Matt Report (please click here) Fozzy picture special (please click here) So, as the Sunday of Download…
So we’re now under a week to go to Download’s tenth anniversary and it’s fair to say the excitement is really building all over the place, not least here at Rocksins. This is the third and final part of our Download preview, so if you’ve happened to miss the first two parts (how dare you),…
Machine Head‘s rebirth amongst the metal community began in 2003 with their career saving Through The Ashes Of Empires and their career exploded in 2007 with the release of The Blackening, winner of countless “album of the year” and “album of the decade” awards granted by everyone from Metal Hammer on down. Fast forward another…
A Devildriver live show is always something for most metal fans to get excited about. Whilst in my opinion their recent records have not been as enjoyable as the first three they’re still a force of nature in the flesh. The prospect of seeing them on the same tour as the mighty Machine Head and…
In only one weeks time, Machine Head will make their long awaited return to the UK for their first set of live shows since their February 2010 tour with Hatebreed, and their first ever UK arena headlining shows. With the acclaimed album Unto The Locust released to the masses and added to the bands impressive…
After our Scotland correspondant Sam had a brief chance to catch up with Malefice frontman Dale Butler in Glasgow, I was lucky enough to grab a few minutes with him on the last night of their tour with Sylosis, Anterior and Chapters at the Islington Academy in London (read the review of that show here)….