When Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne announced the biggest of retirement parties in the shape of Back To The Beginning, the metal world knew it was going to be a momentous occasion. But truly, none of us, not even the Prince Of Darkness himself, could have fully prepared for what was to come on July…
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…
Finally back on UK shores for their first tour over here in over a decade, TOOL shows will always have a lot to live up to. Though they did stop off at Download in 2019, this was the first real taste of TOOL’s legendary arena show. It was also a chance to hear some of…
Allow me, if you will, to get on my soapbox and shout about all the bloody brilliant music that has come out this year. If you’re willing to listen – not to me mind, to the music – you will find that 2019 has been one of the best years of the decade and as the 10s draw to their eventual but inevitable close, join me as we look at my top 20 (ish, I cheated) albums and five EPs of the year.
It is a more than satisfying way to pass the time, but it’s hard to get genuinely excited about an album so content in trading on other bands’ glories.
When Marcel Duchamp unveiled his now seminal post modern piece, The Fountain, it was met with equal parts praise and derision. Divisive from its inception and continuing to cause debate amongst scholars, it is one of the great pieces of post modern art that remains prescient and misunderstood to this day. The same can be…
Tool has shared the tracklisting for their long-awaited 5th studio album Fear Inoculum, due out on August 30. 1. Fear Inoculum2. Pneuma3. Invincible4. Descending5. Culling Voices6. Chocolate Chip Trip7. 7empest Bonus tracks (available via the digital release; physical copy includes a digital download card): Litanie contre la Peur Legion Inoculant Mockingbeat The album will clock…
Heads are sore, feet are weary but that matters not because there is one full day of Download 2019 left to go. The Donington masses collectively dust themselves down as they head towards Tool, Enter Shikari, Slayer’s last ever UK show and much more, so let’s get straight to it. I Prevail (7), through no…
Twelve years. That’s how long it has been since Tool last played in Europe. Twelve. Long. Years. In that time the UK has seen several changes of Prime Minister, the US has had three incumbent Presidents. Trump happened, Brexit happened, UK poverty levels have skyrocketed as have the numbers of people sleeping on the streets…
There’s absolutely NO fucking around from the Download Festival team this time. Straight into the first announcement, all three Download 2019 headliners have been confirmed along with 17 other bands! Kicking things off for 2019 are your headliners, Slipknot, Def Leppard (performing Hysteria in full and much more), and the long awaited return of TOOL….
