The next entrant in Rock Sins traditional end of year awards is longtime contributor and senior writer James Halstead. Never one to shy away from a strong opinion or two, here is what James made of 2016’s musical output… Album of the Year – Architects – All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Taking the blueprint…
Continuing with our annual end of year awards, this time it’s the turn of James Weaver (who when he’s not writing for us, also contributes to Terrorizer. Oh, and he runs his own magazine, Distorted Sound too). Here’s what James had to say about the releases and happenings of the last twelve months: Album of…
After over a decade of thrashing out metalcore albums ranging from incredible to downright flat, Bullet For My Valentine returned to their roots to perform their first LP “The Poison” in full in between regular “best of” sets. They brought along fellow metal stalwarts from across the pond, Killswitch Engage (8). Killswitch’s setlist is an…
Despite the predictions of a total wash out of Doningtons annual festivities, mother nature had been kind to Download 2016, at least until the Friday. As Team Rock Sins took to the hallowed turf there was still grass to be seen, albeit not for much longer! First band of the day were Swedes Royal Republic…
The gates to the campsite of the 2016 Download Festival will be open in just a few hours time! So while you’re sat waiting in the queue, on your travels on the way to Donington, or just wishing you were going, please check out our pick of who and what to see at this years’…
Continuing the trend of major artists supporting the excellent cause of Record Store Day (tomorrow, 16th April 2016) with exclusive releases in recent years, Killswitch Engage are offering up a new track for the event. Jesse, Adam D and the boys are releasing a brand new song, Define Love, which was recorded during the sessions…
Their new album Incarnate is one of the best of their career, and now Killswitch Engage can announce that they will be returning to the UK at the end of 2016. Surprisingly to many, Killswitch Engage will be teaming up with UK metallers Bullet For My Valentine on Bullet’s November / December 2016 theatre tour,…
Killswitch Engage as a band coming into the recording process for Incarnate were in as good a position as they’ve been in their whole career. The reunion with Jesse Leach was an overwhelming success, last album Disarm The Descent was received very well by both fans and press and their live shows with Jesse (in…
After Go Primitive triumphed in the first ever Rock Sins video of the week contest, who will follow in their footsteps this week? We’ve got another truly mixed bag wanting your votes this time around. NWOAHM favourites Killswitch Engage have got a brand new single and video out as they continue the build up to…
It’s a fairly peaceful Thursday afternoon, things are ticking along quite nicely towards home time in the office and then BOOM, a new Killswitch Engage song gets released. This first piece of new music to surface from what will be Killswitch Engage’s as yet untitled seventh album is called Strength Of The Mind, and has…
