From power metal to math rock, bands of all parts of the rock and metal spectrum at this time of year occasionally like to produce a festive number or two. So, we thought here at Rock Sins we would give a quick overview of a selection of some Christmas and holiday themed songs we’ve encountered…
We thought we’d be due another Download Festival 2016 line up announcement before Christmas, and Andy Copping and his team have obliged with a monster of an announcement! Via their often used good friend, Daniel P Carter on the BBC Radio One Rock Show, ten new acts have been added to the festivities at Donington…
Over the last few weeks, the powers that be at Catton Hall have added yet more tremendous bands to the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival line up. We’ve been a bit remiss in providing an update about that, so we thought we’d do the honourable thing and have a catch up. After delighting their long…
Having been sold out for both years since it started in 2014, UK midlands festival Beermageddon 2014 are pleased to announce the final additions to their line-up and also the running order and stage times for the event. Taking Sunday night’s main support slot at Beermageddon 2014 are melodic metallers Cryostorm. Joining them will be…
The festival announcement pendulum has swung back in the direction of the Download Festival 2014 as Andy Copping and his team have confirmed another dozen and a half (that’s eighteen in layman’s terms) bands to appear across the weekend this coming June. Top of the pile this time around are UK rock favourites The Wildhearts,…
Keeping the ball rolling at impressive speed as we hit the two month countdown to the 2012 (and tenth anniversary) edition of the Download Festival, Andy Copping and The Powers That Be in the metal towers of Donington have unleashed an impressive double announcement. Firstly, and fittingly, after the sad news of last week that…
In addition to the news we brought you at the end of last week that Five Finger Death Punch have unfortunately had to pull out of Download’s tenth anniversary edition of the festival, during last week there were two sets of new band announcements that we thought we had better catch up on for those…
