It’s an afternoon of festival news here at Rock Sins. Having just updated our readers on the twenty new bands playing Download Festival next year, it’s now time to talk about the first batch of bands for Bloodstock Open Air 2022! First announced at this years’ Bloodstock Festival shortly before Friday nights’ excellent headliner Devin…
Is it fair to expect international megastars of metal to continue to push the boundaries of their sound twenty-six years into a career?
This latest edition of the Rock Sins’ playlist features the usual mix of new singles, new tracks from just released albums and EP’s and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. We’re celebrating Wrestlemania weekend being the big WWE fans that we are by including Code Orange’s Let Me In – theme song…
Just before the lockdown hit (remember those heady days?), Rock Sins had the pleasure of being present for the mighty night of thrash metal that landed in London at The Forum in Kentish Town. The capital played host to modern thrash favourites Death Angel, opening for legends of the genre Exodus and Testament. All three…
Welcome back for another installment of the Rock Sins weekly playlist. Given all the developments over the last week or so, we’ve decided to focus more heavily on promoting new releases this week, but as always we have a healthy mix for our readers and listeners. This week, the Rock Sins playlist brings you new…
They’ve only been back a week and they’re headlining festivals! My Chemical Romance have been announced as headliners for the 2020 Download Festival Australia next March. My Chemical Romance top an impressive line up that also includes high spots on the bill for Jimmy Eat World, Deftones, In Flames, Testament, Ministry, Clutch, Carcass and Alestorm….
It’s time for another update to our Spotify playlist! This week we’ve enlisted the help of longtime Rock Sins contributor Matt Hill to help us pick some metal gems and he’s done us (and all of you) proud with some choice older offerings (including Machine Head, Hypocrisy, Scorpions and Testament). He’s also picked out some…
Lovers of thrash metal, hold onto your hats (hats optional). Bay area legends Testament are returning to the UK for an early Spring 2018 UK tour, and they’re bringing with them some very impressive guests for the ride. Joining Chuck, Alex and friends on this run will be none other than their fellow thrash legends,…
It’s August, it’s the UK and it’s time for the most metal festival of the Summer – Bloodstock Open Air 2017! Thankfully this time around mother nature looks favourably on Catton Hall (maybe she liked Amon Amarth), and graces the festival with good weather throughout. Rock Sins continue the tradition of bringing our readers a…
With just ten days remaining until the UK’s metal population descend upon Catton Park for Bloodstock’s twelfth incarnation, now seems the appropriate time to make your picks of the main stage crop this year. With the Ronnie James Dio stage bearing witness to three days of commanding chaos, here are Rock Sins’ top choices for…
Forget bonfire night, last night in the O2 Academy, Birmingham was a night to remember. Grand Magus, Testament and Amon Amarth. Could anyone even come up with a more awesome or well rounded line-up? I must confess, I was unfortunate enough to miss Grand Magus’ set. I’ve seen them before and loved every second so…
As the mighty Amon Amarth approach the end of their UK tour, they brought all the Viking Metal you could ask for to Camden’s prestigious Roundhouse for their second to last night of tour. Alongside all the battling vikings and inflatable dragons, Amon Amarth are joined by Testament and Grand Magus tonight for one very…
