With a middle Saturday packed full of rock n’roll, Download 2018’s Main Stage line up was one for those who prefer their rock with an old school feel. Lets’ launch straight into the action! It’s a sign of both how confident the band are and how generally loved they are by their fanbase that Monster…
With Download 2018 in full swing, there were a feast of musical offerings of all blends of metal on offer on middle Saturday. Team Rock Sins runs you through the best and the worst of what went down across the day on our favourite stage sponsored by a certain lighter maker. With more riffs per…
Continuing the rundown of all the action from Donington, we’ve got the highlights of what the Rock Sins team managed to see on the Avalanche and Dogtooth Stages on the first day of Download Festival 2018. If you’ve missed our reviews from the main stage, and from the Zippo Encore stage, you can check out…
Once again, it was time for the annual pilgrimage to the hallowed turf of Donington Park for the Download Festival’s 2018 instalment. Team Rock Sins was once again out in force across the festival, meaning we were able to cover a huge amount of the 100+ bands on display over the weekend. As a result, we’ve…
It’s now less than two weeks until the hallowed gates at Donington Park open for the 2018 Download Festival (at least for the campsite), and here at Rock Sins’ the build up continues! Having already covered day one of the festival with our preview of the Friday of Download 2018, as well as what you…
Some things just go together. Fish and chips. Rum and coke. Metal and good times. Download Festival and Zippo. For the last several years, the well established partnership between Download and Zippo has brought us not only the Zippo Encore (Second) Stage at Download, but also a variety of Download branded Zippo lighters, and 2018…
As we’re now just 16 days away from the gates of the Download Festival 2018 campsite opening for the first time, it is of course time for Rock Sins to continue our build up for our annual pilgramage to Donington. Those of a wrestling persuasion among our readers may have already seen our NXT at…
We all thought Download were finished with their line up editions for 2018 – but with one month to go they’ve managed to squeeze a couple more bands onto an already jam-packed line up. The mighty Napalm Death are bringing their unique brand of grindcore to the hallowed Donington turf once again. For those wanting…
Download Festival 2018 is the heavy music gift that keeps on giving and just in time for Easter, we have a real treat in the form of a whopping 21 new bands slotting into this year’s line-up. This year’s packed line-up now includes crowd pleasers such as Andrew W.K., Avatar, CKY and Bad Religion. Fans…
The Download Festival powers that be have unleashed the mother of all announcements upon us. Over five dozen new bands have been added to the line up in the single biggest group of new bands to join the line up at any one time for years, maybe ever! Top of that impressive pile are Danish…
