Still filled with excitement from last nights knockout set from Trivium, we’re up bright and early on Saturday morning. Ready to make our first trip of the weekend over to the Sophie Lancaster stage. Where a light breakfast of progressive metalcore awaits… Despite drawing what’s usually a death slot at 10:30am, when most of the…
With Bloodstock 2025 just a few weeks away. The grounds of Catton Hall in Derby will soon be filled with thousands of heavy metal fans. All dying for their fix of live music. So with the roster of artists on Bloodstocks expansive bill semmingly growing by the year. We’ve taken a look at 2025’s amazing…
48 hours is a long time in the music industry. Since we published our preview of the first part of Download Festival 2024, we’ve had over half a dozen bands – Pest Control, Scowl, Speed, Zulu, Overpower and Negative Frame, and then slightly later Ithaca – decide to drop off various parts of the Download…
Iconic guitar brand Jackson Guitars celebrated the launch of their brand new Virtuoso guitar model last week. Teaming up with and coming British metal band Heriot for a one off surprise show in Camden that saw two heavy metal worlds collide in spectacular fashion! Renowned in the metal genre for their amazing high gain guitar…
Following on from their stonking first lineup announcement, the team at Slam Dunk Festival 2023 have added another eight bands, further cementing what is going to be one of the must attend events on the calendar next year. Already boasting the likes of headliners Enter Shikari and The Offspring, Bowling For Soup, Creeper, Holding Absence,…
After three years without the full Download Festival experience (with much love to the Download Pilot), Rock Sins joined the assembled thousands flocking back to Donington for Download 2022. As always, the main musical entertainment was spread across Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the festival, but there was a huge amount of extra entertainment on…
It’s that time of year again. Yep, it’s festival season, Metcheck is bracing itself for a record number of website hits and everyone starts buying shares in Jagermeister and wet weather gear. Due to the ongoing Global Pandemic, it’s been 3 years since the faithful have descended upon the hallowed turf of Donington Park for…
We start the playlist this week on a more sombre note in memory of Taylor Hawkins, who sadly passed away just over a week ago. Hawkins was one of the best drummers in rock and we felt that ‘Low‘ off of Foo Fighters fourth album is a perfect example of why he was held in…
As Everything Unfolds were one of the breakout stories of the UK metal scene of 2021. In spite of things being disrupted by COVID, they made a huge splash, and Within Each Lies The Other was one of the releases of the year. So the prospect of seeing them at a Camden Assembly that sold…
The line up for the 2022 Download Festival has taken further shape this morning with 14 more acts joining the party. A couple of bands who have had huge success over the last year have also been rewarded with new slots on bigger stages! Kicking things off in the biggest main stage slot of their…