Following Friday night’s jubilation and partying into the early hours after Sum 41 and System Of A Down, team Rock Sins returned fresh, and not sporting too many hangovers, to tackle the second day of Download 2017, Middle Saturday. If you haven’t yet checked out our Friday coverage from Download 2017 and would like to…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
The Camden Underworld on a Saturday night is always a special place to be, especially when Hacktivist are in town! To kick off the night are Bad Sign (7) who are brining a lot of attention to them after just dropping a video for there new single Intermission (which is amazing and you should all…
Last time out Heel won a titanic battle with Moments Till Fall to just claim the video of the week “trophy”. This time around we’re back to our usual quota of five bands vying to win this weeks’ award, so let’s get on with it! First up this time are Arizona rockers Farewell, My Love….
Hacktivist’s debut album has been a long time coming. Back in 2012 they burst onto the scene with their self-titled EP, with the unique blend of grime rapping and djent riffs creating a stir in both the metal and underground rap scenes, culminating in airplay on BBC Radio One and tours supporting such acts as…
Another Wednesday is upon us and that means it’s time for video of the week once again! With Martyr De Mona making it two wins out of two for UK bands thus far, will it be three in a row or will one of the international contingent come out on top this time? First up…
Coming from it’s new home of Newhaven in Derbyshire in the Midlands for 2016, Hevy Fest have made their first announcements of bands for 2016’s line up. And we have to say, it’s a bit of a cracker! Hevy have come out of the blocks with three big hitters who will be appearing near the…
Rock Sins was very lucky to be granted full access to shoot this years’ Hevy Fest at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent last week. Featuring a wide array of bands from both sides of the Atlantic, including headliners Coheed & Cambria, Fightstar and Stick To Your Guns, as well as the likes of…
Hit The Deck is Bristol and Nottingham’s annual, raucous start to the festival season. With a bill that gets bigger every year, this event has been one of the UK’s premier indoor festivals since its inception. Things are changed around a little at the Nottingham leg this year; the wristbands are made from paper not…
Trips to The Peel are always a little treat and fast rising metal/grime giants Hacktivist certainly left their mark. With appearances fast coming at Reading and Leeds, they have proved to us that this is plenty more of them to come. First up Confessions Of A Traitor (6) showed us what they are made of,…
Last week at the 2014 Takedown Festival in Southampton, our very own Laura Herbert was able to grab some time with Hacktivist shredder and samples man Timfy James. They talked local venues, KoRn, Reading and Leeds and a whole lot more, read on for the details… This is Laura from Rock Sins here at Takedown…
Long speculated among the world of social media and the Internet, it was confirmed on Zane Lowe’s Radio One show last night (and then further confirmed by the press release announcement shortly thereafter) that Paramore and Queens Of The Stone Age would co-headline at Reading and Leeds Festivals 2014. With the festivals social media accounts…
