It’s an afternoon of festival news here at Rock Sins. Having just updated our readers on the twenty new bands playing Download Festival next year, it’s now time to talk about the first batch of bands for Bloodstock Open Air 2022! First announced at this years’ Bloodstock Festival shortly before Friday nights’ excellent headliner Devin…
For the first time since starting the Rock Sins End Of Year Awards several years ago, we’re welcoming a few special guest contributors to the awards. Our first special guest is our longtime friend, Metal Hammer, Prog Magazine and WhatCulture scribe Matt Mills. Take it away Matt! Album of the Year: Zeal & Ardor –…
It’s time for another weeks worth of new and classic tunes with the Rock Sins Spotify Playlist! We are kicking things off this week with The Woodpile by Frightened Rabbit in tribute to their frontman Scott Hutchison, who left us all a few days ago. Our deepest sympathies to his family, friend and bandmates from…
It’s been 8 years since Dimmu Borgir last released an album. The landscape of metal and extreme metal especially has changed considerably. Anticipation was undeniably high for new music from Dimmu, but it is hard to know at this stage if that anticipation was justified. Eonian, will, without doubt, be a divisive album among fans,…
So here at Rock Sins, we’ve finally decided to join the 21st Century. By that, we mean we’ve finally set up a Spotify playlist. Every week, we’ll be providing our lovely readers and listeners with twenty new tracks to soundtrack your week. The songs will be a mixture of new singles, songs from albums and…
With Florida Thrashers Trivium winning things last time, we’ve got another six bands for our readers to check out to crown the latest video of the week! Starting this off this week are Swedish melo-deth royalty At The Gates. With new album To Drink From The Night Itself coming in May, the album’s second single…
Following Paramore’s triumph in our last video of the week contest, we’ve got a new batch of bands for our listeners to vote on to crown our newest video of the week winner. Where else can we start this time out but with the return of the black metal masters Dimmu Borgir. Their new song…
Welcome back! We’re now onto part three of the annual Rock Sins end of year awards. After kicking off with Fran (read hers here) and James W (who’s awards you can read on this link here), it’s the turn of another new contributor to Rock Sins. Katie is joining the team primarily as a photographer…
Words by James Halstead & Nicholas Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. It’s reached the waning end of Summer in the UK once again so that means one very important thing to the UK metal community – it’s time for the Bloodstock Open Air Festival. The 2014 instalment of BOA had one of the most impressive…
The band asked, the fans voted and the decision has been made. For their upcoming European tour Norwegian black metal legends Dimmu Borgir will be playing their early masterpiece Enthrone Darkness Triumphant in it’s entirety. The band will play two full sets at every date of the tour. Enthrone Darkness Triumphant will be the first…
Norwegian symphonic black metallers Dimmu Borgir have announced their return to the UK will come in the form of a UK wide club tour. The band will be performing two sets on the tour, one will be a classic album from Dimmu’s early days in it’s entirety. U.K. fans can vote for the following three…
