It’s safe to say the last decade has been a trying time for Of Mice & Men. Lineup changes, genre hopping and finally finding their feet. Bands have broken up over less. From sanding down the edges on Restoring Force to the Nu Metal revivalism of Cold World, there was a period where they felt…
After an amazing run of shows in 2022 that saw them take stages at Download Festival, Bloodstock and 2000 Tree’s by storm. As well as a stint out on the road with Swedish melodic death metal royalty, In Flames. British metalcore outfit, DEFECTS have quickly become one of the UK metal scene’s hottest unsigned acts…
Of Mice & Men have released their highly anticipated new album, Echo. Ahead of the release, the four-piece (made up of vocalist/bassist Aaron Pauley, drummer Valentino Arteaga and guitarists Alan Ashby and Phil Manansala) shared the title track to the album, which you can check out below. According to frontman Pauley, the new track explores…
Of Mice & Men have had a somewhat turbulent existence with several ups & downs, but it seems as though things may have finally settled for them. Not that their latest album EARTHANDSKY shows any signs of them living a peaceful life. In many ways, this feels like the distillation of everything Of Mice &…
Somehow we’re veering towards the end of the Summer at an almighty pace. We’ve just finished one festival (ArcTanGent) and we’re now gearing up for another double header in the shape of Reading and Leeds – so we’ve themed our playlist feature this time around accordingly. With Reading and Leeds just a handful of days…
Competition for the hottest line-up of 2017 just arrived in the form of triple whammy Five Finger Death Punch, In Flames and Of Mice & Men. The terrific trio are heading to the UK for four arena dates in December, so this may be the first time this year you’ve had to make plans for…
While most of us were spending time with friends and family over Christmas, US metalcore outfit Of Mice & Men, and more specifically their frontman Austin Carlile were coming to some very difficult decisions. Anyone with a passing familiarity to Of Mice & Men will be aware of the health issues Austin has suffered over…
Words by Sam Dignon, James Halstead, Fran Dignon. Photos by Rachael Griffiths. It was the second bank holiday weekend in May and for UK festivals that can mean only one thing – it’s Slam Dunk time! Team Rock Sins was out in force to descend upon The University of Hertfordshire in Hatfield for the final…
It’s tour announcement catch up time here at Rock Sins. Over the last week or so some huge tours have been announced, so we thought we’d try and catch our readers up by covering them all in one go! Firstly, we can’t really start with anyone else other than Architects. Fresh off the back of…
Off the back of their momentous headline performance at last month’s Download Festival where they played Hybrid Theory in it’s entirety for the first time ever (you can read our review of that fantastic event along with the rest of their set and Saturday at Download as a whole right here), Linkin Park have just…
2013 was a good year as far as the performance of rock and metal bands in the UK album charts were concerned, with the likes of Paramore, Black Sabbath and Avenged Sevenfold scoring number one albums, topped off by others such as Bring Me The Horizon and Alter Bridge bothering the top 10 in impressive…
The Rise Records tour, featuring Secrets, Memphis May Fire and Of Mice & Men, makes its way to Glasgow. The first band to take the stage are Secrets [5], and to be brutally honest, they aren’t very good. Repetitive riffs, boring songs, and two poor vocalists, this band aren’t impressive at all. However the majority of the crowd seems…
