One of metal’s all time greatest frontmen, Metallica’s James Hetfield turns the big 5-0 today, August 3rd 2013. We’d like to join the masses of Metallica fans in wishing James a happy 50th, and also to give everyone the heads up about the trailer for Metallica’s forthcoming groundbreaking movie Through The Never. For the first…
As we build up to the 2013 edition of the Download Festival – which is now less than three weeks away, we thought we’d try and pick out some of the best clips around on the Internet of some classic Download performances. To kick things off with a bang, we’re taking the short hop back…
It’s that time of the year again where the staff at Rocksins pick out the great, the good and the not so good for our individual end of year awards. Our newest member James went first, and you can read his picks right here. But now it’s my turn for what was hot and not…
After the previous day’s activities, the Rocksins team and friends did what any veteran Download attendees tend to do. You probably think this means get a decent amount of sleep, when it reality it means blasting some metal into the wee hours and getting considerably less sleep than one should, perfect preparation for what will…
As I sit down to write this, the second part of Rocksins’ Download 2012 preview, it’s currently brilliant sunshine out and temperatures in the mid to high twenties (somewhere around 80 degrees for those of us who only understand farenheight). We should all cross our fingers, get out our lucky charms and pray to whatever…
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…
Yes, I know it’s very late, but I’ve been a bit busy with other things and keeping up with the rock & metal news to finish off this review but better late than never! Those familar with Rocksins know that instead of the traditional top X albums we like to mix it up a little…
We may be lacking in news about the UK installment of Sonisphere, Sonisphere Knebworth, but Europe’s touring festival are starting to get their act in gear when it comes to releasing some line up news for some of the stops on the mainland. Fresh from their appearance at various Sonisphere’s with the rest of the…
During Metallica’s triumphant 30th anniversary celebrations, they played four shows at the Filmore in San Francisco, California for members of their fan club, playing totally different setlists to what they would normally with rarities, covers, special guests and generally had a week long partay. At each one of these four shows, a never before heard…
Well, it’s been a day since the double Download Festival line-up announcement was announced (and spoiled somewhat by Soungarden, read about that here) and the feedback has been overwhelmingly positive as Download fights back against Sonisphere in a big way. Rocksins has been collating information, mostly provided by Download booker Andy Copping via his Twitter…
