As someone who has been following Ghost for over a decade, it’s been really interesting and gratifying watching their ascension. From watching them headline small undersold venues on multi band bills to seeing them now as arena conquering juggernauts has been something to behold,especially as the band has evolved and changed over time. Tonight’s show…
We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
Ghost fans have become accustomed to getting an extra tasty morsel following a big album campaign, with the Phantomime EP coming in as the latest addition to the catalogue. Serving as a stop gap to the massively successful Impera campaign that continues to roll on, a small selection of covers has got a big task…
The announcement we’ve all been waiting for, we now know our finalists for the Heavy Music Awards 2023. Voting is now open for this years awards, so now the tough decisions start in who to vote for. Leading the pack for 2023, our favourite Scottish duo Vukovi have an impressive five nominations. Following shortly behind,…
The line up for Download Festival 2023 just got a hell of a lot bigger! Some huge names have been added to the already impressive set of bands playing Donington this Summer. With so many great bands joining the fun, it’s difficult to know where to start. So we’ll start with some favourites of ours…
Kicking off Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2022 – it’s our news editor Kyle Dimond! As a whole new year emerges, it’s time for the most stressful time of the year as a music fan, end of year lists. 2022 was a strange old year for alternative music. Whilst it wasn’t short on…
On Good Friday, a night of ghoulish fun descended on Birmingham for the final night of Ghost’s Imperatour in the UK. After already playing their biggest show to date on these shores at the O2 Arena a few days before, the birthplace of metal provided one last chance to party with the papa in celebration…
2018’s Prequelle saw Ghost transport its loyal followers to the middle ages, using this setting of plagues and poverty as a framing device for its narrative. Four years on from an album that forced us to survive through a tumultuous time and we have arrived at the other end. The industrial revolution is upon us…
It’s that time again, the Rock Sins Weekly Playlist has been updated yet again with the latest new music, bands and upcoming tours for you all! Starting things off this week we have a Belfast post-punks Enola Gay who are in the middle of a very extensive UK tour at the moment. If they’re storming…
The Rock Sins Weekly playlist is back! This week we are bringing you some of the best new music that has been released, with new tracks from PUP, Dark Funeral and Blood Command. We have new material from Cannibal Corpse‘s Corpsegrinder and Matt Heafy of Trivium with his black metal project Ibaraki. We have more…
It’s my first ever Rock Sins End of Year awards having joined the team in January 2019 and what a year it has been for the scene. New faces, older bands returning and the usual cluster absolutely slaying it with their releases and live shows. Oh, what a time to be alive in our little…
Whether you love them or hate them, no one can deny that Ghost offer one of the most visually spectacular live experiences in all of heavy music at the moment. Following their prime support slots with none other than Metallica earlier in the year, Ghost have earned their promotion to arena headliners across the UK,…
