For months, UK metal fans have been eagerly awaiting the start of December 2011 for two particular tours; The Eighth Plague Tour, featuring Machine Head and Devildriver amongst others, and the third Metal Hammer Defenders Of The Faith Tour, headlined by Trivium and with a fine supporting cast of special guests In Flames, Ghost, Rise…
You may remember that for the last couple of months we’ve been running a competition to win some exclusive prizes given to us by those nice chaps in Rise To Remain. We had a City Of Vultures poster signed by the band to give away and also an album sleeve from City of Vultures also…
One of the live metal highlights of the whole of 2011 lands on UK shores in time for the start of December; The third Metal Hammer sponsored Defenders Of The Faith tour begins today (December 1st 2011) on the south coast of England at Southampton’s Guildhall and will be travelling the length of the British…
Last month, Rise To Remain completed an extensive nationwide UK tour taking in venues all over the country including some cities that a lot of metal bands often leave off their touring schedules such as Cambridge (you can read the review of Rise To Remain’s Cambridge show here). I was able to catch up with…
Rocksins.com likes to bring our readers live gig reviews from all sorts of bands in venues of all shapes and sizes, but this show was particularly unique for the venue. Read on to find out more. Imagine a room about the size of your average living room. Then take away the front third of the…
Rise To Remain are seemingly the UK’s marmite band of the moment, despite the fact their debut full length album has only just hit the shelves. Whether it is some of the press painting them as the new poster boys of British metal, or the grumblings over they’re only where they are today, including have…
Since the first time round that we ran this competition there were a bunch of other Rise To Remain competitions on the Internet, ours got a bit lost. So we’re running it again as we’re just dying to give away these exclusive prizes! It’s time for another competition! Rocksins has teamed up with one of…
After a jam-packed summer of song-writing and touring, Newports Boys With X-Ray Eyes have been added as openers on the Funeral For A Friend November club tour. Main support comes from up and coming UK metallers Rise To Remain. July was a big month for the band – a Sunday afternoon slot at the 2010…
Here at rocksins we’re constantly keeping an eye on the British metal scene and have identified 10 bands, some who are brand new and some who have been around for a while who we think are going to really make it big this year (and a few of them are already proving us right). Read…
