Fresh from the success of their latest album. This week Tennessee deathcore giants Whitechapel have announced their latest European summer campaign, Hymns Over Europe! Kicking off in Gdansk on June 4th, Whitechapels tour will see them team up with Northlane to take a variety of venues and festival stages by storm. Including the UK’s own…
With the rollout of new singles that started on the fifth day of the year, SLEEP TOKEN have been the most talked about band thus far in 2023. Returning home after a run of shows in Australia supporting ARCHITECTS, the remaining tickets for their UK “rituals” were snapped up with the release of new music from one of…
Kicking off Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2022 – it’s our news editor Kyle Dimond! As a whole new year emerges, it’s time for the most stressful time of the year as a music fan, end of year lists. 2022 was a strange old year for alternative music. Whilst it wasn’t short on…
2019’s Alien saw Northlane pushed further through the smoke than ever before. An intensely personal album for vocalist Marcus Bridge, their last record added layers of nu metal, industrial and electronic music to their established sound. Turning the dials up on the emotion and expansion within Northlane proved to be a great success for them…
The Download Festival powers-that-be have granted us all another seventeen (17!) bands that have been added to next years’ return to Donington. Topping the new editions, and headlining at Download for the first time in their legendary career are big four thrashers Megadeth! Dave Mustaine and co will headline the Zippo Encore stage on the…
Watching a concert from our bedrooms is something most of us could have never seen happening, but it’s something we’ve quickly managed to get used to. It’s definitely not the same experience as going to a live show, but if it means we can continue to support the artists and venues we love; then it’s…
I’ll be the first to admit I was very late to the party when it comes to Northlane. I only really got into them during the Mesmer cycle, but I’m very glad I did as it was an album I enjoyed immensely. Needless to say, I’ve been anticipating a follow up for some time. Alien is…
Last time out we had our shortest ever video (57 seconds) win courtesy of UK grind outfit Helpless. It’s now time for another six bands to fight it out for your votes! The ONLY place we can start this week is with Architects unexpected monster of a track Doomsday and it’s accompanying video. The first…
As far as festival announcements go, you don’t get much bigger than this. The 2017 Download Festival have only gone and added a whopping FORTY EIGHT bands to the line up for this years’ event. There are some huge bands in this announcement so it’s tough to know where to start, but a good place…
The Amity Affliction are back, this time with a UK/European tour in support of their latest release, I Think This Could Be Heartbreak. The line up tonight reads like a mashup of genres, with four very different bands mixing together to provide a night of entertainment at London’s Roundhouse. Wage War [7] pack a big…
Impericon Festival added an additional London date this year, much to the delight of fans that wouldn’t have to travel all the way to Manchester from far and wide. Taking place on the first properly warm day of the year, we sent Rachael Griffiths to spend the entire day locked away in a dark room to photograph…
The festival announcements keep coming thick and fast and the always punishing Impericon Festival are the latest to reveal some new bands for their 2016 installment. After making a brief return to the UK in 2014, the news that Despised Icon will once again take to the stage at Impericon Fest in 2016 will please…
