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…
It’s a cold and wet winter night in Birmingham, however, despite the elements there’s an undeniable sense of excitement running through the crowd gathered outside the o2 Academy. With good reason too, as hot off the heels of their home run performance at this year’s Download Festival, Rise Against are back in Birmingham once again…
After the recent wave of proposed and actual book bans, Rise Against recently shared a cinematic, action-packed new video for their latest single Pain Mgmt. The video was directed by activist art collective Indecline and depicts a world where literary works are under attack. Indecline explained “Of the many unthinkable battles we find ourselves forced…
As the sun rose once again for the final morning of the 2022 Download Festival, many thoughts were on the mind of Team Rock Sins. How lucky we’d been with the weather and just how bloody good Iron Maiden had been the previous evening among them. For those who haven’t seen the other parts of…
This year Download Festival was back in full force with its usual capacity and an epic line-up that saw the likes of Kiss, Iron Maiden and Biffy Clyro headling the festival’s full return, post-pandemic. We always knew this year would be special and you can see some of those special moments and highlights from the…
It’s that time of year again. Yep, it’s festival season, Metcheck is bracing itself for a record number of website hits and everyone starts buying shares in Jagermeister and wet weather gear. Due to the ongoing Global Pandemic, it’s been 3 years since the faithful have descended upon the hallowed turf of Donington Park for…
It’s now just one week to go until the music starts at the Download Festival 2018 – so what better time than to bring our readers the final part of our in-depth 2018 preview. Jamie, Ali and Simon will once again guide you through the Rock Sins’ dozen highlighted bands of the day. For those…
With the release of their new album Wolves just one month away, Chicago punk icons Rise Against have announced a very special UK return. Tim McIlrath and the rest of the band will play London’s Garage venue as a very special intimate, one off show on June 2nd, one week before the release of the…
In news that should surprise no one, Andy Copping and his team at Live Nation / Download HQ have managed to squeeze out a new Download Festival 2015 line up announcement before Christmas. And in the true spirit of Christmas, it’s a whopper, with a very impressive 19 (nineteen) new bands announced to join the…
Yet more success in 2014 when it comes to the UK album charts for rock and metal (and punk rock in this case) artists and this week it’s a double dose to continue on from other successes, most recently Mastodon hitting the top ten. When it comes to metal bands, and especially British metal bands…
Long promised & even more eagerly anticipated, Chicago punk rock heroes Rise Against have finally confirmed the first details of their tour plans in support of their forthcoming album The Black Market. The European stint of their tour will begin in November 2014, with support coming in the form of Californian punk rock peers Pennywise…
After the fun and bruises of day one at Alexandra Palace (read the review of all the first day’s action right here), Sam returned to the famous old North London venue for the second and final part of the Vans Warped Tour UK 2013. Here’s how he saw it…. Playing early in the day on…
