In the latest instalment of Rock Sins end of year awards for 2013, we’ll hand you over to the very capable hands of Lisa to run you through what made her musical year in 2013. All yours Lisa…. 2013 was an interesting year for me musically. I rediscovered my love of the classics (You Can’t…
And so, it falls to my turn to collate my own summary on the weird, wonderful and down-right frustrating releases of the year 2013. Let it be said, it hasn’t been the most notable year for music… but maybe that’s because Opeth and Mastodon were so relatively quiet 😉 –##– Album of the Year :…
Next up in the Rocksins’ End Of Year awards is our features editor Jamie. Here’s his selection of the great, the good and the not so great… 1) Album Of The Year – Five Finger Death Punch – The Wrong Side Of Heaven & The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume One There’s been some fantastic…
The final day of any Download Festival is often a bittersweet experience, armed with the knowledge that there isn’t much of the festival left to go but still plenty of music to ones teeth into (and for many, the fact that they will soon return to a warm bed and functional toilet). Download 2013 was…
Back in 2003, I went to my first Download festival following the last ever Ozzfest at Donington in 2002. Whilst memories of IRON MAIDEN, SIKTH, DEFTONES, STAMPIN’ GROUND, SEPULTURA and of course those cheeky chaps in METALLICA remain steadfast as being some of my greatest, throughout the years many of the following Downloads have involved…
We’re now only ONE WEEK away from the start of Download 2013, and that means it’s time for the final part of our annual Donington preview. If you’ve missed the first two parts, you can catch them on the links below: Download 2013 Preview (Friday) Download 2013 Preview (Saturday) This final part focuses (naturally) on…
Continuing the build up nicely to this Summer’s forthcoming rock & metal festivities, the nice people from the Download Festival have put together a short video teaser to build the mood for this years’ event. Check it out below: [youtube id=”WxPFe0ikduk” width=”600″ height=”350″] Download 2013 recently added around thirty more bands to the already impressive…
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…
We will do this again my friends, I swear to fuckin’ god”. Words spoken by Corey Taylor at the conclusion of Slipknot’s mind blowing headline set at the 2009 edition Download Festival. Slipknot delivered one of the all time great metal festival headline performances that night, a show which is one of the greatest in…
After the Facebook leak of yesterday (see here), it wasn’t going to take the powers at be at Castle Donington long to have to confirm their second headliners for Download 2013, and at 10am today they duly obliged. A visit to the official Download Festival website will now see the Rammstein logo sitting proudly next…
