It’s time for another update to our Spotify Playlist! Continuing our tradition of mixing in the best of the old and the new we’ve got a royal musical feast for you this week. New singles, or tracks from impending new albums from the likes of While She Sleeps and In Flames kick things off. Other…
Needless to say, I have most definitely slacked and avoided a LOT that I shouldn’t have this year. Not surprisingly to those that know me, my attendance at gigs has almost evaporated in recent years, especially when you consider at one point in my life I was frequenting 4-5 gigs a week… What is surprising…
Over the course of 2014, as with other years, Rock Sins was privileged to talk to many of the great and the good from all kinds of bands big and small. For anyone who may have missed them, or for anyone wanting a reminder and another chance to read some of them again, here’s a…
Continuing apace with Rock Sins annual End Of Year Awards for the third year running, this time it’s Rock Sins features and live editor Jamie’s turn to offer up his slice of the great, the good and the disappointing from 2014. Let’s get down to it… Album Of The Year – Arch Enemy – War…
Last month, somewhat out of the blue except to those in the know, NWOAHM pioneers Shadows Fall announced that their imminent UK and European tour with Unearth, The Hell On Earth Tour 2014 would be the band’s last full European tour and that the band would be going on hiatus following that tour and certain…
Making it’s way through Europe, the Hell On Earth Tour made a short three date run through the UK. Despite being headlined by Unearth the bigger story of this tour was that it could be the last time we ever see Shadows Fall in the UK. Rocksins went along to the Underworld for a night of classic…
As far as Rock Sins is concerned very sad news broke from the Shadows Fall camp last week that the Hell On Earth Tour, of which Shadows Fall are currently appearing on across Europe as special guests to Unearth, is to be the Massachusetts natives last major trip to the UK and Europe. The Hell…
Just before we kick on with the final part of our Download 2012 review, for anyone who hasn’t read our previous coverage, there’s a few links for you here: Part 1 (Friday review) Part 2 (Saturday review) The Matt Report (please click here) Fozzy picture special (please click here) So, as the Sunday of Download…
So we’re now under a week to go to Download’s tenth anniversary and it’s fair to say the excitement is really building all over the place, not least here at Rocksins. This is the third and final part of our Download preview, so if you’ve happened to miss the first two parts (how dare you),…
Keeping the ball rolling at impressive speed as we hit the two month countdown to the 2012 (and tenth anniversary) edition of the Download Festival, Andy Copping and The Powers That Be in the metal towers of Donington have unleashed an impressive double announcement. Firstly, and fittingly, after the sad news of last week that…
