Currently rounding off their huge UK arena tour with Shinedown and Alter Bridge where they have been opening the show in style (read our Wembley show review here) Pennsylvania rockers Halestorm have announced their largest UK headline tour so far as they plot their return to British shores. Lzzy, Arejay, Joe and Josh will be…
Ever since Alter Bridge’s tour with Halestorm and Shinedown was announced back at the beginning of April, for many people it’s been the most eagerly awaited tour of the year. Rocksins like thousands of others headed off to Wembley Arena to see if things lived up to expectation… Openers Halestorm (6) had plenty of their…
Bullet For My Valentine recently played the Camden Roundhouse promoting latest album ‘Temper Temper’ so James went down to check them out to see whether despite the negative feedback surrounding new album Temper Temper they’ve still “got it” live. Miss May I (7) kick off this evening’s entertainment; they’re fairly standard metalcore fodder but are…
It’s that time of the year again where the staff at Rocksins pick out the great, the good and the not so good for our individual end of year awards. Our newest member James went first, and you can read his picks right here. But now it’s my turn for what was hot and not…
Off the back of the news that their tour with Welsh metal four piece Bullet For My Valentine is on the verge of selling out, Pennsylvania rockers Halestorm have announced a set of headline shows to tie in with their tour with BFMV. The headline shows will take place before (and in the case of…
Halestorm are one of the break out bands of 2012. Having released a smash hit album, The Strange Case Of…(read a review of that here), they’ve had successful UK tours with Shinedown and their first ever headlining tour outside of the US, put on a great show at Download 2012 (where we also got to…
Fresh from headlining a show at the BBC’s Radio One Rocks week and the release of the new song Temper Temper from their upcoming album, Welsh metallers Bullet For My Valentine have announced their return with a double announcement. Firstly, their fourth studio album, which is also named Temper Temper, is going to be released…
Take a sold out Islington Academy with a loud lively crowd on a Friday night in London and you have all the necessary ingredients for a superb show. Add a band who have become one of the breakout stars in the rock world of 2012 and those in attendance were pretty much guaranteed a fantastic…
In the second of our exclusive interviews that was recorded on site at Donington Park during the Download Festival 2012, Jamie was lucky enough to catch up with one of the hottest and fastest rising bands to come out of the US in the last couple of years, Pennsylvania natives Halestorm. Rocksins were able to…
Halestorm and Evanescence are currently on tour together in the US as part of the “Carnival Of Madness” tour which happens most years over there, and two of rock and metal’s most famous ladies have taken the opportunity to perform together. Check out this fan filmed (but the quality is pretty damn good) footage of…
After the previous day’s activities, the Rocksins team and friends did what any veteran Download attendees tend to do. You probably think this means get a decent amount of sleep, when it reality it means blasting some metal into the wee hours and getting considerably less sleep than one should, perfect preparation for what will…
A few weeks back we announced that one of the rising stars of US hard rock Halestorm were heading over to the UK in September for a tour (the original announcement is here). Well we’ve now got a bit of an update on that announcement as Halestorm have announced the support bands for the tour….
