For all the mega-selling, stadium filling, world beating acts in the metal community like Slipknot heavy metal will never stop needing the mid-tier, old reliables such as Children of Bodom. Bands like Bodom are the lifeblood of our genre and, albums like ‘Halo of Blood’ are the lifeblood of these bands. However, don’t confuse the…
This coming weekend will see Bury Tomorrow’s biggest show of their careers thus far – opening up the main stage at the Reading and Leeds annual bank holiday festival double header. Ahead of those special shows, the band have released a new music video featuring footage from one of their career highlights so far. Having…
The Defiled’s second album Daggers, the follow up to 2011’s Grave Times, has been a long time coming. It’s been over a year since the band headed to Florida’s Audio Hammer studio to record with acclaimed metal producer Jason Suecof. Anticipation for Daggers has been on a constant rise, with fans eager to her how…
Swedish power metal superstars Sabaton have got some rather exciting news! The band have announced the forthcoming release of their first ever live DVD (also coming to Blu-Ray), entitled “Swedish Empire Live”. Enough from us, hear the words directly from Sabaton themselves: “We can now confirm the release date of the DVD/Blu Ray we recorded…
Having signed to Nuclear Blast Records earlier this year after two decades with Roadrunner Records, Brazillian metal stalwarts Soulfly have been hard at work in the studio, creating their first album for their new record label home. The album does not yet have a title, but Max and the rest of the band, including Zyon…
A couple of hours prior to the band’s stunning breakthrough performance where they smashed The Pepsi Max Tent and its inhabitants to smithereens at Download 2013, Rocksins was lucky enough to catch up with Bury Tomorrow frontman Daniel Winter-Bates backstage at Donington. Dan talked about the bands he was looking forward to seeing at the…
Having given arguably the performance of their lives on their Download Festival debut last weekend (coverage of which will be coming very soon on Rocksins), Southampton metalcore upstarts Bury Tomorrow have announced plans for a substantial UK headlining tour this Autumn. These dates will be the final main set of shows in support of the…
Continuing the build up to their eagerly awaited new album “Halo Of Blood”, coming on the 10th of June 2013 through the mighty Nuclear Blast Records, Finnish metallers Children Of Bodom have released a new music video. The song, entitled “Transference”, is the second to be made widely available from Halo Of Blood ahead of…
Killswitch Engage’s first UK tour since reuniting with Jesse Leach was always going to be a very big deal. Add in quality support from UK modern thrashers Sylosis and the fact the entire tour sold out was not surprising in the slightest. Keen to get in on the fun, several members of Team Rocksins were…
With the release of Children Of Bodom’s new album Halo Of Blood just over a month away, the band have released the first song from the album for public consumption. Entitled “Transference”, Alexi Laiho explains that the band’s long term fans should enjoy Transference: “Transference is a straight up CHILDREN OF BODOM to the core…
Just a quick reminder to all our readers and lovers of metal across the UK, one of the most awesome tours you’re likely to see all year kicks off tomorrow in Manchester. Of course, it’s none other than Massachusetts most successful metal export of recent times Killswitch Engage, gearing up for their first UK tour…
When it comes to death metal, things don’t come too much more brutal than NYC natives Suffocation. Riding high off the release of their most recent album Pinnacles Of Bedlam, released in February of this year through Nuclear Blast, Suffocation have launched a brand new lyric music video for one of the tracks off the…
