In the English Summer sunshine, backstage at Download Festival 2025, Rock Sins were delighted to catch up with Opeth master shredder and lead guitarist Fredrik Akesson. We were able to cover many topics with Fred, from returning to the bands’ signature growing vocals, the multiple moving parts and guests of their recent album The Last…
We all know that Download Festival starts as soon as the gates open on a Wednesday lunchtime. With many fantastic events like The Takeover and some of our friends doing awesome DJ sets, District X and The Doghouse are definitely the place to be for the early arrivals. For Download 2025, it felt like the…
We are very much into the final countdown before the gates of Donington open for the 2025 Download Festival! We’ve got features aplenty to keep eager attendees excited as they countdown the days, and up today is our preview of the festival’s first full day of entertainment. Recently we caught up with Download Senior Booker…
It’s not always easy being an Opeth fan. They are one of the most challenging and diverse bands in heavy music. You never not what they will put out from one album to next which as a fan is extremely exciting, but even with that in mind, I don’t think anyone could have predicted what…
ArcTanGent 2022 closed the festival with a day full of riffs, headbangs and bands to crowd surf to. Headlined by much loved Opeth and filled with stellar slots from Heriot, Ithaca and Conjurer it was not one to be missed. Em Coulter documented the day and you can check out all of the photo highlights…
Bristol’s ArcTanGent festival has announced another wave of great additions to the already stacked line-up. On top of all the bands added to the bill, an extra day has also been added, meaning that next year’s festival will take place between the 17th and 20th of April. Joining the likes of Opeth and Cult Of…
Our Spotify playlist has been quiet for the first few weeks of the year, but we’re back up and running with a fantastic selection of tracks for our first installment of 2020! We have our usual selection of brand new singles, recent album tracks and some old favourites to have you moshing at your desk…
With a stacked line up filled with metal’s brightest underground sparks and a few big names to boot, Damnation does not look set to disappoint.
Opeth have always been a cut above everyone else. This is after all, the band that took death metal and infused it heart and brains, and took challenging progressive metal to Guardian readers. They even reinvented 70’s prog rock in their own image, with varying results. This is a band that has always walked to…
After ten days of pretty much non stop rain in the build up to the festival at times bordering on the torrential, Rock Sins really wasn’t sure what we would find arriving at the 2019 Download Festival. Stories abound in the mainstream media of attendees having given up in the campsite on the Wednesday and…
New Opeth is coming! The Swedish prog metal maestros have announced the follow up to their 2016 album Sorceress. Titled In Cauda Venenum, the album will be released through Moderbolaget / Nuclear Blast Records. The exact release date of the album, as well as details of various pre-order bundles, will follow in the future. In…
