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…
They said it would never happen. Not in this lifetime they said. But not only are Guns N’Roses alive and well with 3/5ths of their iconic line up, and selling out stadiums the world over, they’re also the final headliners for the 2018 Download Festival. Axl, Duff and Slash will team up on the Donington…
We’ve got our second Download Festival 2018 headliners and as long suspected, it’s Avenged Sevenfold! Orange County’s finest are returning to the stage where they announced themselves as a festival headline calibre band in spectacular style four years ago when Download took a chance on them as new headliners in 2014. The sold out arena…
The first Download Festival 2018 announcement is upon us, and Donington is to be joined by The Prince Of Darkness himself! Ozzy Osbourne will headline the 2018 installment of the Download Festival, marking the first time he has headlined the festival as a solo artist, and his first solo appearance at Donington since the 2002…
So, here we are at last, the final part of Rock Sins coverage of the 2017 Download Festival. Having covered all the other stages for the full three days of the event, lastly we’re focusing on Sunday’s fun and games from the main stage. Before we launch in, if you’d like to catch up with…
Continuing our march through the reviews of the final day of the 2017 Download Festival, this installment sees reviews of the likes of Stone Broken, Basement, The Dillinger Escape Plan’s final UK and many more spread across The Avalanche Stage and The Dogtooth Stage. If you’ve missed any of our existing Download 2017 coverage, then…
Concluding our coverage of the summer’s great rock and metal shindig, Download 2017, just in time for the other biggest one, Bloodstock Open Air 2017, to take place, the review of the action of the final day begins with the Zippo Encore Stage. But first, make sure you check out the coverage from the other…