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…
In the time honoured tradition of bands messing up major announcements by posting on their Facebook pages (such as how Soundgarden leaked a whole bunch of the Download Festival 2012 lineup last year), German industrial metal legends Rammstein have put their 2013 Summer Festival calendar up on their Facebook page and on June 16th 2012…
We at Rocksins like to be able to bring our readers all types of metal gig reviews and Rammstein provide a live experience unlike any other musical act on the planet, never mind any other rock or metal band. There is a level of pagentry and theatre that is unmatched by any, and it is…
It has been confirmed in the last few hours that German industrial metal giants Rammstein, last seen on these shores for their incredible, triumphant headline show at Sonisphere Knebworth 2010 are returning to the UK for a tour in March 2012. So far, the only confirmed date is in Manchester on March 1st 2012. More…
Best album of the year: InMe – Herald Moth This album completely took me by surprise, and I think it’s the album that sticks out in my mind for being memorable this year. Having already been familiar with some original InMe tracks, I had been half expecting the same sort of stuff, but they most…
With Sonisphere 2010 at Knebworth now hours rather than days away, we at Rock Sins thought we’d take a little look at the UKs main challenger to Download and give you a bit of a preview of the line-up highlights in Sonisphere’s second year in the UK. Friday will bring lots of fun, games and…
