Time for a brand new video of the week contest! We’ve got six very different bands with six very different songs and videos battling it out for your votes this week. Having set Download ablaze, almost literally, and with three mammoth shows at the end of November announced for English scores, Amon Amarth unleash hell…
Some time has passed since Devin Townsend won our last video of the week contest, but fear not, we’re back with a fresh batch of great songs and videos to crown a new winner. Firmly into the build up for their new, untitled album, we have to start things off with Rammstein. Following the overwhelming…
Sum 41 are back with a bang! Three years on from their comeback album 13 Voices, the Canadian punk rockers with a thing for heavy metal riffs can today reveal the first details of their brand new album Order In Decline. Sum 41’s seventh album, Order In Decline will be released on the 19th of…
It’s time once again for another update to the Rock Sins Spotify playlist. This time out we are, as you might have guessed from the title, focusing on the annual August bank holiday festival double header at Reading & Leeds 2018. This weeks’ 20 tracks are a mixture of old favourites and new releases from…
Overnight in the US, Linkin Park’s very, very special tribute concert in celebration of the life of their former frontman Chester Bennington has been taking place at The Hollywood Bowl in California. The show only finished about 45 minutes ago, and the full show is available to watch on Linkin Park’s YouTube channel. It’s an…
With Rock Sins having a substantial team on the ground at the 2017 Download Festival this year, we thought it might be a bit much to include all the bands from each day in one single mammoth post. So we’ve decided to split things up by stages, and here you can find all the events…
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…
The end of February saw pop-punk legends Sum 41 kick off their ‘Don’t Call It A Sum-Back’ UK tour with fellow Canadian’s Hollerado. We were there at the Leeds date to bring you this review! Hollerado (6) came onstage welcomed by a packed out O2 Academy. The Ottawa (definitely NOT from America as they clarified…
If you were to ask someone to pick out a band from the early 00’s pop-punk scene that never really reached their full potential, some would choose Sum 41. After releasing perhaps one of the genre’s strongest debut albums in the form of ‘All Killer No Filler’, the Ontario natives went on to forge a career…
