Our Download Festival 2025 preview has reached the final day! Having brought you Team Rock Sins’ thoughts on day one (Friday) and day two (Saturday), here we are with the preview of the last day of action; The Sunday of Download 2025. Arguably the most stacked line up of all three days, there are some…
Three brand new headliners for Download 2025! For the first time since 2010 the Download Festival has an entirely fresh set of headliners for the Donington faithful to enjoy. With punk rock legends Green Day making their Download bow on Friday night, the mysterious phenomenon of Sleep Token on Saturday and nu metal icons KoRn…
They say two heads are better than one. But then again they also say too many cooks spoil the broth. It’s hard to know what to believe and whether more than one person at the helm of a project is a good thing. For the sake of this list however, more is most certainly more…
Last week, our photographer Alice Burton headed to the South Coast to take in tech metal / djent pioneers SikTh at The Engine Rooms in Southampton. The Watford natives are still touring in support of their excellent album The Future In Whose Eyes, and Rock Sins was delighted to be present at one of the…
Following on from Scottish thrash metal outfit Disposable taking home the winners medal last time out, we’ve got five more videos for you all to vote on this time. First up this week are UK tech metal royalty SikTh. Ahead of their impending UK tour which you can find them playing across the country in…
Following Friday night’s jubilation and partying into the early hours after Sum 41 and System Of A Down, team Rock Sins returned fresh, and not sporting too many hangovers, to tackle the second day of Download 2017, Middle Saturday. If you haven’t yet checked out our Friday coverage from Download 2017 and would like to…
Sikth are a band that came around at the right time. In the early 00’s, nu metal was spluttering along and Sikth hit like a bolt out of the blue. After touring the toilet circuit for a number of years, they delivered a stunning debut album ‘The Trees Are Dead And Dried Out, Wait For Something…
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…
Following on from last year, when Trivium announced that they would be doing a run of small town shows, the band set out on a tour of the more usual of cities in order to finish up the run for their album, Silence in the Snow. Team Rock Sins was well represented at the Roundhouse…
Following on from their impressive headliner announcement recently, ArcTanGent 2017 are keeping up the festival’s momentum with another ten bands added to the line up. In particular, there are a number of heavy hitters joining headliners Converge and Explosions In The Sky. Firstly tech metal legends SikTh, who have been destroying crowds around the land…
