The home straight for the 2026 Download Festival! If you’ve made it this far, you may (or may not) have read our previews for both the Friday and the Saturday of the annual Donington bash. If you haven’t, here’s some links so you can catch up: Download Festival 2026 Friday PreviewDownload Festival 2026 Saturday Preview…
The dust has settled on another 2000trees festival, we are free from the 2000 wasps and 2000 degrees heat waves (OK slightly exaggeration). It’s been one week since the festival ended and we’re deeply missing the outrageous scenes of Upcote farm and counting down the days until were back, so what better time than to…
A feature roughly six months in the making, Rock Sins’ albums of the decade brought over a dozen of our team together to work out collectively our favourite albums of the decade over which this site came to life and has since thrived. initially delayed by some work commitments and then further by the COVID-19…
As we head into the second month of 2018, Rock Sins End Of Year Awards continues to gain new entries. This time around it’s one of our newest writers, Shaun Brown. Take it away Shaun! ALBUM OF THE YEAR 2017: CODE ORANGE – FOREVER What else is left to say about Code Orange that hasn’t…
Continuing with our annual end of year awards, this time it’s the turn of Rachael Griffiths, our Assistant Live Editor and one of our team of photographers. Here’s her thoughts on 2016. Album Of The Year: LetLive – If I’m The Devil Perhaps an unsurprising one to start with, given my bias towards LetLive. A…
Continuing with our annual Rock Sins tradition of the end of year awards, this time up it’s one of our senior writers, Sam Dignon. Over to you Sam! ALBUM OF THE YEAR: OATHBREAKER – RHEIA 2016 was a ridiculously strong year with at least five albums battling out for this top spot. In the end…
Listening to the muttered words in the queue winding around the o2 Academy Brixton, small complaints could be heard about how those patiently waiting had never seen so many people waiting to attend a show. With the release of their latest album, Misadventures, Pierce The Veil were touring the UK, bringing their supports, Letlive and…
It’s been a little while since we’ve seen Letlive on UK shores, and the excitement surrounding the announcement of their tour was palpable. Add to the fact that dates were few and in smaller venues than necessarily required, and excitement surrounding the tour began to rise to a fever pitch. Youth Man [7] played the…
The anticipation surrounding Letlive’s short run of UK dates at a selection of very small venues was a cause of great excitement for those that consider themselves fans of the band. We sent (we had no choice – she demanded it) our photographer, Rachael Griffiths, down to The Dome to document the evening. Letlive’s new…
With the 2014 Download Festival now less than two weeks away, it’s about that time of year again where Rock Sins picks out our acts that we really think you should see across the weekend. In part one of our preview, we’ve got ten bands we think you should see on the first day of…