Rob Zombie is not a man known for his subtlety, which might explain why he has released an album called The Lunar Injection Kool Aid Eclipse Conspiracy in the midst of a global pandemic. But with every Zombie release, be it a film or an album, it’s a much needed and welcomed escape from reality….
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…
There’s absolutely NO fucking around from the Download Festival team this time. Straight into the first announcement, all three Download 2019 headliners have been confirmed along with 17 other bands! Kicking things off for 2019 are your headliners, Slipknot, Def Leppard (performing Hysteria in full and much more), and the long awaited return of TOOL….
In the 90s, an era where metal was defined by Headbangers Ball, Leather jackets and Beavis & Butthead, White Zombie was one of the driving forces behind the scenes’ success. They hit at just the right time and have enough unique elements to push them into the stratosphere, and even when they disbanded, they left…
Continuing in the same vein as our Friday reviews, we had multiple members of Team Rock Sins at Donington the whole weekend of Download 2017, so following on from our Saturday Main Stage reviews, here you can find our Zippo Encore Stage reviews for Saturday. If you’ve missed any of our other coverage from the…
Words by Jamie Giberti & Ali Cooper. The Zippo Encore Stage is often the place at the Download Festival where “the metulz” are found. Download 2017 is no different, with an assortment of bands from Slayer to The Cavalera Brothers serving up everything from thrash to old school heavy f***ing metal. But it’s not just…
Twenty more acts have been announced by the organisers of Download Festival, taking place at “rock’s spiritual home” Donington Park on 9 – 11 June. Canadian prog-metal professor Devin Townsend will bring his very own Devin Townsend Project to the event after a recent successful UK tour. He will be joined by highly-rated newcomers Code…
It’s Download Festival announcement time of year once again and the first announcement has served up not one, or two, but all three of 2017’s headliners! Kicking things off this year on Friday night are System Of A Down. With things much improved in the S.O.A.D camp since their ill-fated reunion performance in 2011, Daron,…
Words by James Halstead & Nick Holmes, photos by Tess Donohoe. With only one more day to go, it was time to wipe away the grime accumulated over the past several days and go again for one last round of metal mayhem for the final day of the 2015 Bloodstock Open Air Festival. Anyone who’s…
The annual Bloodstock Open Air Festival held at Catton Hall has always catered to the more extreme end of tastes with both a friendly and intimate atmosphere and a consistently fantastic lineup. This year is no different with death metal heavyweights Cannibal Corpse and Death To All making appearances alongside headliners Trivium, Rob Zombie and…
Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2015 is looming large on the horizon, being just over a month away already! For something slightly different, we thought we’d compile a selection of great songs and their accompanying videos by some of the many fantastic artists appearing at Catton Hall this August. So, here’s 15 videos by 15 of…
The lord of horror himself has been announced for Bloodstock Open Air 2015! That’s right, none other than Rob Zombie himself has been confirmed as BOA 2015’s second headline act, joining Dutch symphonic metallers Within Temptation at the top of the bill for next year. An infrequent visitor to these shores, with only two Download…
