Mastodon – Hushed And Grim
“I turn the grief to medicine”. For so many artists, pain is the lynchpin of creating works that will stand the test of time.
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Download Festival 2022 Adds Twenty Bands Including Mastodon and Announce Day Splits
The Download Festival 2022 team have added another twenty bands to their already huge line up for next year! What’s more, they’ve also given us plenty more info to get our heads round; They’ve announced the day splits for the bands currently booked. Lets’ take a look at the new additions and where we can…
Download Festival 2021 Announce Over 70 Bands Including Headliners KISS, Biffy Clyro & System Of A Down
The Download Festival team have pulled out all the stops for a mega first announcement of Download 2021! As promised by festival booker Andy Copping, the bulk of the 2020 lineup has re-joined the party for 2021, but with some interesting new additions and replacements for those who couldn’t rejoin from 2020. Headliners KISS (on…
Top 10 Heavy Bands With More Than One Vocalist
They say two heads are better than one. But then again they also say too many cooks spoil the broth. It’s hard to know what to believe and whether more than one person at the helm of a project is a good thing. For the sake of this list however, more is most certainly more…
Alter Bridge, Bowling For Soup, Funeral For A Friend Among New Bands Added To Download Festival 2020
It’s another whopper of an announcement from the Download Festival team for the 2020 edition of the annual Donington shenanigans! Over forty bands have just been added, and we’ve got more than music for you as well! Kicking things off and filling Saturday’s special guest slot, in something of a poorly kept secret are Rock…
Rock Sins Spotify Playlist Update (24th May) – Slipknot, Rammstein, Knocked Loose and Lots More!
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,…
Rock Sins Spotify Playlist Update (28th February) – While She Sleeps, Dream Theater, In Flames and Lots More!
It’s time for another update to our Spotify Playlist! Continuing our tradition of mixing in the best of the old and the new we’ve got a royal musical feast for you this week. New singles, or tracks from impending new albums from the likes of While She Sleeps and In Flames kick things off. Other…
Rock Sins Spotify Playlist Update (8th Feb) – Children Of Bodom, In Flames, InVisions, Mastodon and Many More!
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…
Mastodon Announce January Return For 2019 UK And European Tour
Mastodon have announced their return to live action with a marathon 25-date tour of the UK and Europe. The Atlanta band will kick off the trek on January 14 in Belfast, Northern Ireland before additional stops in Dublin, Southampton, Newcastle, Glasgow, Leeds, Birmingham, Norwich, Bristol and London, where they’ll take over the prestigious O2 Academy Brixton….
Mastodon – Cold Dark Place
Mastodon never do anything by halves. Whether they are dropping mind-bending concept albums, or casually just putting out one of the albums of the year this past March, they are always keeping people on their toes. So some six months after their blistering album ‘Emperor of Sand’ they have decided to grace us all with…
Download Festival 2017 Friday Main Stage Review: The Day The Sun Returned
Let’s face it, about two weeks prior to the annual rock and metal pilgramage to Donington for the Download Festival, weather watch becomes a favourite pasttime for a large amount of the festival going community. Having ranged from looking horrendous (ala many of the recent previous years) to not too bad at all, the worst…
Alter Bridge, Sum 41, Opeth, Mastodon and Airbourne Among 26 New Bands Added To Download Festival 2017
Merry Christmas to us all from the powers that be at Download Festival HQ. Andy Copping and the team have just unveiled an amazing selection of bands for the 2017 Download Festival that will go a long way towards winning over some of the fans who weren’t already convinced by the first announcement, and make…