Next up in the Rocksins End of Year Awards 2013 is one of our resident photographers and interviewers Fran. Fran’s been very busy for us this year, so over to her for her best and worst bits of this year! 1) Album of the year: Palm Reader – Bad Weather When Bad Weather was first released…
Wanting to give us all an early Christmas Present, Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have decided that Christmas has indeed come early where the 2014 edition of the Download Festival is concerned by adding another fourteen bands to the line up for next year’s event. The BIG news in this…
Since the release of their second album The Union Of Crowns last year, Bury Tomorrow have quickly risen up the ranks in the UK Metalcore scene. Tonight marks the final night of their biggest headline tour yet and with this show being completely sold it out it was definitely going to be a special one for the band. First…
The second part of James’s account of his stay in a field in Surrey for the delights of Redfest 2013. Saturday saw Bleed From Within headlining the Hype stage and, we must say James was only a little bit excited to see the new material off Uprising… First on Saturday’s lineup for Rocksins to catch…
Taking place in the lush green Surrey countryside and into their seventh year of the event, Redfest is rapidly evolving from it’s origins as a well kept local secret into one of the UK’s most appealing and diverse smaller festivals. Redfest 2013, which takes place in just two weeks time on the 26th and 27th…
A couple of weeks ago here on Rocksins we announced that UK metalcore rising stars Bury Tomorrow had announced a huge UK headline tour for October 2013 (if you missed the original announcement, you can view it here). Not content with announcing such a substantial tour, Bury Tomorrow haven’t wasted any time in lining up…
First up are Dead Harts (7) who play a great set of well-constructed hardcore tunes that nicely warms the crowd up for what is to follow. Feed the Rhino (9) who follow are nothing short of astonishing. The band hurl themselves around the venue with a manic fury, especially frontman Lee Tobin who seems to…
Feed The Rhino have just finished their first ever UK headline tour, in support of the superb sophomore album The Burning Sins. Rocksins had the opportunity to have a chat with them during that tour. This is your first headline tour, how has it been so far? Chris Kybert: It’s been really good, especially London at the Borderline. Sam…
Keeping the ball rolling at impressive speed as we hit the two month countdown to the 2012 (and tenth anniversary) edition of the Download Festival, Andy Copping and The Powers That Be in the metal towers of Donington have unleashed an impressive double announcement. Firstly, and fittingly, after the sad news of last week that…