As far as first festival line up announcements go, Bloodstock Open Air Festival have smashed it out of the park with their opening blast of bands for 2025. In their opening 19 band salvo, Bloodstock have revealed all three main stage headliners for next years festival and a viking boat load of other good stuff…
Kicking off Rock Sins End Of Year Awards for 2022 – it’s our news editor Kyle Dimond! As a whole new year emerges, it’s time for the most stressful time of the year as a music fan, end of year lists. 2022 was a strange old year for alternative music. Whilst it wasn’t short on…
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…
Immediately, Godeater distance themselves from the majority of Gojira’s sound proving they can stand apart from the crowd rather than wallowing in reverence.
The Black Dahlia Murder are one of the premier death metal bands around today. They have built an incredible and somewhat enviable back catalogue over the last decade. Nightbringers is another high point in their growing legacy. It’s refreshing to see a band getting heavier yet still retaining a sense of melody this far into…
Somehow, in amongst the Download’s and Slam Dunk Festivals of this world, the delightful collection of technical skill and brutal heavy metal that is UK Tech-Fest 2017 has snuck up on us, and is now only one week away! What did you do, our readers might say? We’ll tell you what we did, we turned…
UK Tech-Fest has revealed 15 more bands for this year’s festival, which takes place at the Newark Showground from 6th to 10th July 2017. Salt Lake City deathcore maestros Chelsea Grin will make their debut appearance at the festival, as will Californian death wizards The Faceless and Montreal prog outfit Beyond Creation in UK exclusive appearances, meaning Tech-Fest will…
The Black Dahlia Murder have long been firm favourites of ours here at Rock Sins. So when they were set to return to London, and at Camden’s Underworld venue no less, then attendance was compulsory! As we often do in these situations, we sent James Halstead along to survey, and take part in, the carnage…
In the second part of our coverage of Download Festival 2014’s middle Saturday, our hardcore / metalcore specialist Sam caught several bands that Jamie has not already covered in the first part of our Saturday review (read that here if you’ve missed it for coverage of the likes of Linkin Park, Killswitch Engage, Fozzy, Bowling…
Having previously announced a selection of festival appearances such as at Download in the UK and Hellfest in France, US death metal maestros and friends of Rocksins’ The Black Dahlia Murder have announced a substantial amount of festival appearances for this coming Summer all across the European Summer festival circuit. Including Graspop, Roskilde, With Full…
Things just got a whole lot more interesting for Download next year (not that it wasn’t looking good already). Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have unleashed another dozen bands for our collective enjoyment for the Download Festival 2014! First up are former Download headliners and US pop punk band The…
Back in September Fran went along to see The Black Dahlia Murder at Islington Academy in London on their UK headline tour with Revocation and Aborted. She had her trusty camera with her, and got some great shots of all three bands which can be seen in our exclusive gallery right here! Also at the…
