Another wave of American metal is swelling out in the distance and with new album Scar Weaver, Once Human are kicking their way to the forefront. The third album from the Los Angeles quintet has been perfected over the last couple of years and the band boast a broader yet more focussed sound. Scar Weaver…
Continuing with the 2021 Rock Sins End Of Year Awards installments, our latest round comes from Mr Rob Woodhouse. With excellent wide ranging tastes, Rob’s awards are likely to feature a wide array of bands, so without any further waffling from the RS Editorial Team, take it away Rob! Album of The Year: The Wildhearts…
Birthed by the time afforded by the pandemic, for fans of the Gothenberg melodeath scene, new band The Halo Effect are a true supergroup. Their credibility in this area is second to none with each member being a part of In Flames at one point. Made up of Mikael Stanne (vocals/dark tranquility), guitarists Niclas Engelin…
Following on from the first part of our albums of the decade feature, where we counted down from 20 to 11, we are back for the conclusion! This time, we will count down the Rock Sins staff collective top ten albums of the decade, finishing off with our album of the decade! If you missed…
This latest edition of the Rock Sins’ playlist features the usual mix of new singles, new tracks from just released albums and EP’s and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. We’re celebrating Wrestlemania weekend being the big WWE fans that we are by including Code Orange’s Let Me In – theme song…
In light of the current circumstances with Coronavirus / COVID-19 and obviously understandable need for bands and artists to postpone or cancel tours and shows, we thought it might be helpful to run a thread of rock / metal / alternative music tours we know have been affected for our readers. Download Festival 2020 Download…
Welcome to Rock Sins Weekly, our brand-new digest of the week’s news. We’ll be covering a broad range of topics from the big headlines, gig and festival announcements, album launches, new singles and everything that goes up on rocksins.com This week we discuss Robb Flynn’s Instagram post regarding the new song, Do Or Die, Edsel…
New Machine Head music has arrived! Just as Robb Flynn and his assorted two line ups of merry Machine Head men head to our side of the Atlantic for the first instalment of the Burn My Eyes 25th Anniversary Tour, they’ve dropped a brand new single. “Do Or Die” is the first new music from…
It’s that time again with a fresh batch of tunes for you all to enjoy on our Spotify playlist. This time, we’ve got brand new tracks from recent releases from the likes of the maestro Devin Townsend, High Rise, Zebrahead, Wheel and Children Of Bodom. There’s brand new singles from Sertraline, Dream Theater virtuoso Jordan…
It’s time for another update to our Spotify playlist! This week we’ve enlisted the help of longtime Rock Sins contributor Matt Hill to help us pick some metal gems and he’s done us (and all of you) proud with some choice older offerings (including Machine Head, Hypocrisy, Scorpions and Testament). He’s also picked out some…
With the sun beating down on eager, head-banging ready necks hours before doors open, it would be apparent to any passer-by that something special is to grace the Roundhouse for six hours over the course of the next two nights. The number of black t-shirts adorned with variations of Machine Head’s iconic diamantine logo and…
Ah Machine Head. Robb Flynn and co have been on quite the journey over the last ten years, ever since releasing their magnum opus of The Blackening. Their most recent album Bloodstone & Diamonds contained some great songs but couldn’t quite escape the feeling that what was a good album should have been a great…
