Three days into Download Festival 2023. At this point in a standard weekend at Donington some people would be starting to wind down, pack up the tents ahead of going home but not at Download 2023! Anticipation was high ahead of Metallica’s second set of the weekend, while the day was full of other hugely…
After a bit of a break, the Rock Sins Weekly Playlist feature is back! This time out, we have nineteen brand new and recently released tracks from all across the heavy music spectrum for you. Plus, a certain old favourite that has been getting a lot of attention thanks to a certain TV show (you’ll…
The Download Festival powers that be have spoken for the first time on the line up for 2020. *Drumroll Please* Your headliners for Donington next year are KISS, Iron Maiden and System Of A Down! They will be joined on the Download Festival 2020 line up by another 9 bands in the first announcement. With their…
Disturbed have always been a divisive band, one with just as many supporters as haters, and remarkably over the course of the last 18 years that feeling hasn’t really dissipated. It came as a massive surprise to the world then when they scores a huge global with with their cover of The Sound of Silence,…
There aren’t many bands that know how to build hype better than Avenged Sevenfold. From projecting the Deathbat on to the side of major buildings, to releasing an album that they had managed to keep completely secret, they show time and again that they know how to put on a show. Seeing that they were embarking…
Two years ago, Slipknot and KoRn kicked off the big tours of 2015 with one of the great rock and metal arena tours of recent times. Almost two years to the day those bands destroyed Wembley Arena, Avenged Sevenfold arrived in the capital to bring The Stage world tour to London’s grandest stage, The O2…
It wasn’t long ago that Orange County, California natives Avenged Sevenfold announced an enormous UK arena tour for January 2017 (with Disturbed and In Flames supporting them no less). Clearly the tour has been an enormous success at the box office, as Avenged Sevenfold have just announced they are adding a second London date at…
Due to some unforeseen circumstances we’ve had a few issues in getting the final part of our Download 2016 festival coverage published for your enjoyment but better late than never, here it is! For anyone who didn’t see it the first time around, or who would like a refresher, You can catch up with the…
Avenged Sevenfold haven’t been seen in the UK since their critic defying, jaw droppingly good headline performance at the 2014 Download Festival. So the news of their return to the UK in January 2017 for their biggest arena tour to date will be cause for celebration for an awful lot of people. The tour hits…
Last night on Dan Carter’s BBC Radio One Rock Show the second batch of bands for next years’ Download Festival were announced and there’s some huge bands in there! First off the blocks (and predicted by many including some of the Rock Sins staff) none other than Chino Moreno and Deftones, who in an awful…
Once at the summit of modern metal, Disturbed have become a nostalgic band of sorts in recent years. Following from a four year hiatus, the band are back with their sixth studio record, Immortalized, in an attempt to pick up where they left off four years ago. But is this new offering simply an attempt…
