Nottingham metalcore upstarts The Five Hundred first caught our attention a few years back when they released their Winters EP. Since then, they’ve released their debut album, Bleed Red, and have now scored the biggest gig of their careers so far, a prime slot on The Boardie Takeover on the Thursday night of Download Festival 2019….
Every year for the past several years at Download Festival, a special event occurs. On the Thursday of the festival, the Doghouse tent is turned over to a very important part of the Download Festival community – those behind the Download Forums – for the annual “Boardie Takeover“. Having grown in size and popularity, its…
It has been awhile since the last Rock Sins video of the week contest, won by Rxptxrs – but we’re back in a big way with five brand new videos for our readers enjoyment. The only place we could start this week was with Brighton’s finest metalcore masters Architects. Having dropped the second single from…
Last time out we had our shortest ever video (57 seconds) win courtesy of UK grind outfit Helpless. It’s now time for another six bands to fight it out for your votes! The ONLY place we can start this week is with Architects unexpected monster of a track Doomsday and it’s accompanying video. The first…
The time has come to post our final set of UK Tech-Metal Fest 2016 photo coverage, with Rachael’s gallery from Sunday. Featured in this gallery are Deities, Tardive Dyskinesia, The Five Hundred, Ghost Iris, Pravitas, Invocation, Zygoma, We Are Carnivores, Terraform UK, Frontierer, Shields, Haken, Novelists, Textures and Between the Buried and Me. Rachael is off…
Ambitious and vivid, Nottingham subgenre-bending quintet The Five Hundred are keen to clock in and muck in. Debut EP ‘Winters’ combines passionate breakdowns with emotion-packed melodic clean vocals, offset neatly by savage screams. Intense from the onset, the title track opener is crammed with soaring solos and tricksy fretwork evident of guitarists Paul and Andy’s…
