East London is ablaze with glorious sunshine and awash with black t-shirts as metallers aged 8 to 80 and beyond descend on Stratford. Their destination: The London Stadium to take in the first night of the Metallica M72 World Tour London double header. It is a Friday, and a relatively early start time, which means…
Thrash metal titans, Metallica have been out on the road on their gargantuan M72 world tour now since 2023. However, the Bay Area legends show no signs of slowing down yet. Having just announced a run of shows across Europe and the UK in Summer 2026! Kicking off on May 9th at the Olympic Stadium…
Our weekly playlist update is back for the first time in awhile! There’s been SO much good music released recently that we wanted to give our playlist a spring cleaning and provide our readers and listeners with a new batch of the latest tunes (and maybe one or two old favourites too). With their critically…
Knocked Loose have felt ever present on UK shores but it felt like a long time since the Kentucky outfit has gone up and down across a full on headline tour. In that time, through festival appearances and the like, their live reputation has only continued to grow. Armed with last years devastating Upon Loss…
And thus, after two great days of taking in the return of 2000Trees in Cheltenham, (see what we had to say on Thursday and Friday) the final day had arrived. The entire festival was sold out, but it never felt claustrophobic like they had tried to cram extra people in – nothing could stop the…
This week on the Rock Sins Playlist we have tracks from Knocked Loose, Terror and Static Dress who have just kicked off their UK tour this week as well as Boston Manor who are also due to hit the road soon! We have some eagerly awaited new material from the ever-brilliant Ithaca & Pupil Slicer…
The Rock Sins End Of Year Awards are back! After a year off last year due to all things COVID, we are back with a blast for 2021. COVID might still be here, but 2021 has afforded us some brilliant music and a return to live shows. Kicking things off in the awards is Rock…
Out on the road for one of the final ‘must-see’ and completely sold out tours of 2019 are Knocked Loose, and unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last year, you’ll know that they’ve been making waves in the metal and hardcore communites with the release of their sophomore album “A Different Shade…
We’re getting very excited for Slam Dunk Festival 2020 – so over the Christmas period we thought we’d re-share with you some of our best photos from the 2019 edition of Slam Dunk in Leeds! Our photographer Connor Morris was our eyes on the ground at Slam Dunk, be sure to watch out for a…
Its time for another update to ye olde Rock Sins Spotify playlist feature! As always, we’ve got the usual mix of brand new tracks for you, and some old favourites. In the new corner this week, we’ve got the blistering new Slipknot single for starters. That is followed by new tracks from Rammstein, Knocked Loose,…