Whether in the centre of the ring or in the centre of the stage with his band Fozzy, Chris Jericho knows how to work a crowd effortlessly. Give him a Co2 blaster, some killer musicians alongside him, and Escape The Fate in tow, and everyone present was guaranteed a fun night. Matt Higgs was there…
No matter how we may avoid or reframe the thoughts; there’s no denying we carry a certain amount of darkness. Though as hard rock group FOZZY demonstrate, it’s how we face up to and present ourselves within that pain. With seventh studio album Boombox, we’re taken on a journey through the land of juxtaposition. Boombox…
Some sad news for longtime Fozzy fans. The band, who are our friends of ours here at Rock Sins from the earliest days of the website, have just announced the departure of founding member and drummer Frank Fontsere. The news, which first came from a post on frontman Chris Jericho’s Instagram account, said Frank wanted…
A quick catch up on our Spotify Playlist for this week! We’ve got fantastic new tracks from the likes of Dream State, Alter Bridge and Ice Nine Kills. There’s also new offerings from Airbourne, Creature, Twin Atlantic, Simple Plan and State Champs (featuring We The Kings) and Jinjer. Then we’ve also got recent releases from…
It’s that time of the year again when Bloodstock Open Air is almost upon us, so we’ve dedicated the return of our weekly spotify playlist to the UK’s favourite metal festival for the metal purists. With headliners Nightwish, Gojira and Judas Priest (who feature twice, because, let’s face it, who doesn’t love a double dose…
As we continue through a rather wet and windy January, it’s time for the latest entry in our End Of Year Awards, this time courtesy of one of our senior writers, Jack Fermor-Worrell. Over to you Jack! Album of the Year: Eternity, In Your Arms – Creeper This year was rather unique for me in…
As we hurtle towards 2018, it’s time for another entry in the Rock Sins 2017 End Of Year Awards, and this time it’s our features / live editor, Jamie’s turn. Album Of The Year – While She Sleeps – You Are We Back in April, I called While She Sleeps album You Are We a…
It’s time for some more bands for the 2018 Bloodstock Open Air Festival! The BOA team have done a great job building the line up so far and they are showing no signs of slowing down with the latest additions. First up this time out are fearsome extreme metal supergroup Bloodbath who will lay waste…
Fozzy are one of those bands who over the last decade or so have straddled the fence between hard rock and metal very effectively. With The Duke, Rich Ward and Chris Jericho as the co-captains of the band, they’ve come out with some great singles and a couple of really great albums (and several more…
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…
Fozzy are always great value for entertainment, be it on stage or for an interview. Rock Sins is very happy to say we once again were able to catch up with one of the huge rock stars of Fozzy on the final day of Download 2017. This time around we were able to renew acquaintances…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Ali Cooper and Simon Crampton. So, with Download 2017 virtually upon us, we come to the final part of our stage-by-stage Download Festival 2017 preview. If you’ve missed the other parts of our preview and would like to catch up, you can read the previews of The Dogtooth Stage, The Avalanche…
