With tickets to the festivals 25th anniversary next year already selling like proverbial hotcakes. Last week, Bloodstock announced 27 new artists joining the impressive roster for 2026’s event. As well as confirming the festivals first ever Thursday headliner, British heavy metal institutions, Saxon! Among the plethora of names taking their places on the bill alongside…
Following on from the sights and sounds of Bloodstock Open Air Festival’s first day, we’re straight into the action on day two. After another soggy night out at the campsite it’s up to Canadian hardcore heavy hitters Cancer Bats (8) to wake everyone up and get things going on Saturday morning and they absolutely smash…
Once a year Camden Rocks take over 20 venues in Camden Town to bring you a day jam packed full of the best rock and metal bands around. This year proves to be no different as the masses flock to Camden Town with their perfectly planned out day, ready to see as many bands as…
Festival announcements continue to fly thick and fast at events big and small all over the UK. Amongst the din, it’s always good to receive news of more bands from our friends at Bloodstock Open Air Festival HQ for the 2016 installment, and they’ve got another 5 bands for us this time! Kicking off this…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Sam Dignon, James Halstead, Jack Fermor-Worrell, Lisa Fox. The final part of Team Rock Sins’ Download Festival 2015 review may have been slightly longer in coming than planned, but with announcements for next years’ Download on the imminent horizon what better time for our 2015 coverage to come to an end….
Although Rock Sins will have a full day-by-day and blow-by-blow account of all the action from the 2015 Download Festival, here’s half a dozen things we learned and observed over the course of the weekend that we thought we’d share with our readers prior to the main review! 1) Muse Can Headline Wherever They Want,…
Words by James Halstead & Nicholas Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. After some tremendous performances from the likes of Prong, Hatebreed and headliners Down on day one of the 2014 edition of Bloodstock, it was time to head back into the arena at Catton Hall for more metal mayhem on day two of the festival…
In recent years, the British metal festival calendar has kicked off with the annual trip to North Wales for Hammerfest and 2015 will be no different. Hammerfest 7 will be returning to it’s regular home at Hafan Y Mor Holiday Park and they’ve just announced the first group of bands that will play at the…
Well, after a week’s worth of Download announcements, The team at Bloodstock Open Air 2014 have responded in some style with a new quartet of bands for BOA who will really bring the metal to Catton Hall in some style. First up are New Orleans sludge metal legends Crowbar. With Kirk Windstein recently stepping down…
Having survived through the first two days of Bloodstock Open Air 2013 with relative success, Sam, James and Fran were ready for one last tilt through the grounds of Catton Hall surrounded by quality metal all day long. If you missed the first two days coverage you can check them out on the links below:…
With the 2013 edition of the Bloodstock Open Air Festival already boasting arguably Bloodstock’s most diverse bill in it’s history, the organisers have added yet more rock and metal to be enjoyed by the festival goers. Top of the pile for the latest announcement are Swedish power metal favourites Sabaton. Riding as high as they…
Power Quest, the British power metal five piece have announced plans to stream their last live gig of the year across the world wide web. The gig, which will take place in Wakefield at The Snooty Fox (the home of Twitrfest 2 in 2012) is on November 27th. Joining Power Quest for their last performance…
