It’s time for another update to our Spotify Playlist! Continuing our tradition of mixing in the best of the old and the new we’ve got a royal musical feast for you this week. New singles, or tracks from impending new albums from the likes of While She Sleeps and In Flames kick things off. Other…
What are In Flames in 2019? The co-founders of the Gothenburg Sound almost a quarter of a century ago have tried a variety of things on some of their recent albums, both to try to stay relevant to modern audiences, and to keep things interesting for themselves. Rock Sins has had a couple of conversations…
It’s time for another update to our Spotify playlist! This week we’ve enlisted the help of longtime Rock Sins contributor Matt Hill to help us pick some metal gems and he’s done us (and all of you) proud with some choice older offerings (including Machine Head, Hypocrisy, Scorpions and Testament). He’s also picked out some…
In Flames announced a few months back that for the first time they were going to host their own festival, Borgholm Brinner (which translates as Borgholm is Burning) in their homeland of Sweden, specifically at the historic Borgholm Castle on the island of Öland. Having previously announced some of the line up including Bullet For…
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…
Competition for the hottest line-up of 2017 just arrived in the form of triple whammy Five Finger Death Punch, In Flames and Of Mice & Men. The terrific trio are heading to the UK for four arena dates in December, so this may be the first time this year you’ve had to make plans for…
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…
There aren’t many bands that know how to build hype better than Avenged Sevenfold. From projecting the Deathbat on to the side of major buildings, to releasing an album that they had managed to keep completely secret, they show time and again that they know how to put on a show. Seeing that they were embarking…
Two years ago, Slipknot and KoRn kicked off the big tours of 2015 with one of the great rock and metal arena tours of recent times. Almost two years to the day those bands destroyed Wembley Arena, Avenged Sevenfold arrived in the capital to bring The Stage world tour to London’s grandest stage, The O2…
In Flames have been one of heavy metal’s most iconic bands for a long time now. The Swedish outfit, heavily involved with the development of the iconic Gothenburg sound, have over a 26 year risen to one of the leading bands in the metal world. Whilst recent records have moved away from the cutting edge…
So it’s been awhile since our last video of the week contest, so we’ve decided to have a slightly bumper edition this time around, with six videos as opposed to our usual five. There is a huge eclectic collection this time around, so let’s see who can come out on top to follow Death Valley…
It wasn’t long ago that Orange County, California natives Avenged Sevenfold announced an enormous UK arena tour for January 2017 (with Disturbed and In Flames supporting them no less). Clearly the tour has been an enormous success at the box office, as Avenged Sevenfold have just announced they are adding a second London date at…
