Over the course of 2014, as with other years, Rock Sins was privileged to talk to many of the great and the good from all kinds of bands big and small. For anyone who may have missed them, or for anyone wanting a reminder and another chance to read some of them again, here’s a…
Back in the Summer of 2014 at a sunny (for a change) Donington Park, Killswitch Engage ripped the 2014 Download Festival main stage a new one and reaffirmed to anyone who wasn’t already aware that they’re now as good as they’ve ever been, if not the best they’ve ever been (read the review of their…
In the latest of our interviews from behind the scenes at the 2014 Download Festival, Jamie caught up with Frank Fontsere, drummer from one of the UK’s favourite hard rock bands of recent times Fozzy, to talk about their performance earlier in the day, their new album Do You Wanna Start A War, working with…
A few hours prior to Trivium’s second stage headline appearance at Download 2014, Rock Sins was lucky enough to catch up with Trivium bassist and Metal Hammer’s official King Of The Internet Paolo Gregoletto, who was happy to talk touring, frontman Matt Heafy’s health issues, the band’s drummer situation and of course Mr Brown. Read…
Welcome (at last some of you may say) to the final instalment of Rock Sins Download Festival 2014 review coverage. This is our final instalment from our own UKHC / metalcore flag waving Sam, who saw many bands on the Sunday of Download 2014 that Jamie did not cover in the first part of our…
Once again, after several days of fantastic rock, metal and partying, it comes down to the final day of the Download Festival. 2014’s edition had been highly enjoyable so far, and with a number of fantastic bands playing the final day it was hoped things would finish in style. Once again Rock Sins’ team members…
In the second part of our coverage of Download Festival 2014’s middle Saturday, our hardcore / metalcore specialist Sam caught several bands that Jamie has not already covered in the first part of our Saturday review (read that here if you’ve missed it for coverage of the likes of Linkin Park, Killswitch Engage, Fozzy, Bowling…
Following the exploits of Avenged Sevenfold, Opeth and many more from the previous night, once again the Download Festival arrived at “Middle Saturday” with the promise of many more great performances. If you missed the first part of our Download 2014 review covering Friday you can catch up with it right here! In a unique…
Words by Sam Dignon & Jamie Giberti. After months of build up, anticipation, debates, celebration and complaints over the line up (as happen every year), Download Festival 2014 was finally upon us. Rock Sins descended en-masse to the hallowed turf of Donington with our best staff turn out yet to enjoy and report back on…
So as one might have expected, Aerosmith were one of the bands of the weekend at the 2014 Download Festival. With a set full of classics and frontman Steven Tyler on utterly unstoppable form, Aerosmith were rock and roll at it’s finest. Now, there’s the chance to experience it all over again! Aerosmith are headlining…
As you might expect, having recently returned from the yearly soiree to Donington for the 2014 Download Festival, Rock Sins will have loads of coverage in the coming days and weeks. But before all of that takes over our lives for the next god knows how long, we had a few things we wanted to…
With the first two parts of our Download preview under our belts (you can check out Part One of our preview for Friday here and also Part Two for Saturday of the festival here if you’ve missed them), our attention now turns to the final day. For Download 2014 the Sunday has once again adopted…
