Although Rock Sins will have a full day-by-day and blow-by-blow account of all the action from the 2015 Download Festival, here’s half a dozen things we learned and observed over the course of the weekend that we thought we’d share with our readers prior to the main review! 1) Muse Can Headline Wherever They Want,…
The gates of Donington are just three hours away from opening for the 2015 Download Festival, so it’s high time we gave our readers the final part of our preview of this years’ activities. Focusing on what is often known as Classic Rock Sunday (which definitely rings true this year, at least for the main…
With the recent news that Sonisphere Knebworth won’t be happening in 2015, booking bands just got a lot easier for the Download Festival – not that they generally have problems anyway. The latest batch of rock, metal and alternative acts have just been announced by Andy Copping and his team for Download 2015, and it’s…
Continuing apace with Rock Sins annual End Of Year Awards for the third year running, this time it’s Rock Sins features and live editor Jamie’s turn to offer up his slice of the great, the good and the disappointing from 2014. Let’s get down to it… Album Of The Year – Arch Enemy – War…
Following on from the start of Rock Sins 2014 end of year awards a couple of days ago with Fran kicking things off (read her choices of the best and worst of 2014 here), our second installment comes from a new face here at Rock Sins. We are welcoming James Weaver to the Rock Sins…
With their new album Siren Charms receiving a very mixed response in some quarters, not to mention this being their first London headline show in more than six years, tonight is a very big night for Gothenburg natives In Flames. Did one of the bands who’ve helped inspire countless amongst the current generation of bands…
When In Flames announced they were cancelling their appearance at the 2014 Download Festival, as well as the rest of their scheduled performances there were a lot of disappointed people, including us here at Rock Sins. At the time the band promised to try and get back on the road by the end of 2014…
When the most recent Download Festival announcement was made yesterday (viewable here), one name was conspicuous by their absence from the line up and the poster, Swedish metal favourites In Flames, who were previously confirmed to play the event some months ago. Yesterday evening In Flames put out the following brief message on their social…
Things just got a whole lot more interesting for Download next year (not that it wasn’t looking good already). Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have unleashed another dozen bands for our collective enjoyment for the Download Festival 2014! First up are former Download headliners and US pop punk band The…
Rocksins.com is thrilled to bring our readers our second huge exclusive interview of 2012, this time with Daniel Svensson, long time drummer of Swedish metal legends In Flames. Daniel was kind enough to give us some of his time a few hours before In Flames took to the stage at Brixton Academy for the London…