Ahhhh, Download middle Saturday. The time when everyone is nicely settled in. Middle Saturday at Download 2025 has a very eclectic feeling. In fact, we put it to Download’s Senior Promoter Kamran Haq that it just might be the most eclectic main stage line up a day at the festival has ever had! Following on…
It’s the final countdown to the 2025 Download Festival! With the gates of Donington opening in just six days, and the arena fully open a couple of days after, excitement is building. Rock Sins caught up with Download Festival Senior Booker Kamran Haq recently to cover a huge range of topics about this years’ Download….
The Mysterious Four piece return with powerful and haunting new album… In past decades, the typical career rhythm for bands and artists followed a predictable cycle:release an album, go on tour, disappear from the spotlight, then return with a new album, touragain, and repeat. It was a monotonous loop driven by industry expectations, with little…
Sleep Token have all drawn us back together in worship with the release of their second single‘Caramel’ from their upcoming album, ‘Even In Arcadia’. The anonymous and mysterious fourpiece have, once again, flexed their musical prowess and ingenuity on the new track, throwingout afrobeats, glorious, soaring pop hooks and a truly brutal death metal breakdown….
Sleep Token are back among us! The enigmatic and anonymous four piece have finallyrevealed their new single ‘Emergence’ after weeks of teasing. The track is to be followed bytheir fourth studio album entitled ‘Even in Arcadia’, scheduled for release on May 9th, via RCARecords. The announcement also includes a huge arena tour of the United…
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…
After a spectacular 2023 that saw every tour they embarked upon sell out within minutes, their latest album skyrocket into the charts and that ended with spellbinding headline performance at London’s Wembley Arena. Sleep Tokens ascension looks set to continue in 2024. With the band having just announced a mammoth UK arena tour for November…
Now in it’s third year, the 2023 edition of Radar Festival held at Manchester’s O2 Victoria Warehouse saw a line-up that treated us to the likes of Periphery, Sleep Token, Dream State, Loathe, Lake Malice and many more! We sent photographer Abbi Draper to capture the action – check out some of the highlights in…
Secretive, enigmatic and taking both the metal world and the mainstream by storm, Sleep Token have steadily been building anticipation for their latest studio album, Take Me Back To Eden for months now. With singles like Chokehold and The Summoning already having clocked up well over 85 million streams on Spotify prior to the album’s…
With the previous singles from the forthcoming Sleep Token album, Take Me Back To Eden having already clocked up over 85 million streams in just a few months, the hype surrounding the notoriously secretive group’s third studio release is at an all time high. Not content with taking over Spotify, bagging YouTube’s “Trending Artist On…
Takedown Festival, the Hampshire based all day Rock & Alt Festival is finally back, after an eight year hiatus. Moving from its original home in Southampton Uni to Portsmouth Guildhall, the Festival made a welcome comeback this Easter weekend. Takedown has always had a special place in the hearts of music fans for being an…
For the first time in 8 years, Takedown Festival returns this weekend! Moving from it’s previous home of Southampton University to Portsmouth Guildhall, it promises to kick start your Easter weekend with much a serious dose of heaviness. Split over 5 stages, there will be something for everyone, no matter what flavour of Rock &…
