So here at Rock Sins, we’ve finally decided to join the 21st Century. By that, we mean we’ve finally set up a Spotify playlist. Every week, we’ll be providing our lovely readers and listeners with twenty new tracks to soundtrack your week. The songs will be a mixture of new singles, songs from albums and…
Continuing with more of our End Of Year Awards looking back on the great and the disappointing of 2017, this time it’s the turn of our senior photographer Fran Dignon for her choices. Over to you Fran! Album Of The Year: Anti-Flag – American Fall I spent the majority of this year being absolutely positive…
From the final day of Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2017, Fran Dignon brings us some fantastic action shots of the day’s events. Carry on down for shots of Venom Prison, Broken Teeth, Possessed, Obituary, Puppy, Skindred, Hell, Arch Enemy and Megadeth – not necessarily in that order!
Here we are once again, another year over. So as is customary this time of year it’s time to look over the highs and lows from the world of music, and this time it is the turn of our own charismatic enigma, Simon Crampton. Album of the Year – Creeper – Eternity in your arms…
Venom Prison have easily been one of the most exciting bands in extreme music over the last year. Their debut album Animus has gained them a dedicated cult following and landed them support slots with some of the best names in metal. Rocksins caught up with vocalist Larissa Stupar and guitarist Ben Thomas ahead of their London headline…
Well, Trivium aren’t messing about here are they?! Having not long ago released one of the albums of the year in the shape of The Sin And The Sentence, they’ve now announced an enormous UK and European Tour with a huge supporting cast. Joining Trivium on the run of UK shows in Mid April are…
Earlier this morning, in reaction to the ongoing developments involving Decapitated and their arrest in the US a few days ago, UK extreme metallers Venom Prison took the decision to pull out of their tour supporting Decapitated in the UK later this year. The band have issued a lengthy statement, which we think is very…
Having been privileged to be involved with the Heavy Music Awards 2017 (aka the HMA’s) from quite early on, becoming a judge in one of the first groups of people to be selected, this was an event I had waited for eagerly for some time. The venue, the House Of Vans beneath London’s Waterloo Station,…
Venom Prison are one of the most exciting young bands around right now. They have been having an incredible year promoting their latest release ‘Animus’. They have completed tours with Suicide Silence and Darkest Hour, as well as being nominated for awards at the Metal Hammer Golden God Awards and the Heavy Music Awards. I was…
Team Rock Sins was out in force at Download 2017, so in order to make our festival coverage from this year’s Download the most enjoyable and readable it can be, we’ve decided to break things up a bit. Here’s our view of what happened on The Avalanche Stage and The Dogtooth Stage on the first…
Words by Jamie Giberti and Ali Cooper. We’re just over six weeks away from the annual mudfest that is the Download Festival at Donington Park (we must SURELY be due a dry year this time, surely, please?). As is always the case, “the little tent”, currently known as The Dogtooth Stage, has a wide and…
It’s a cold dark Sunday night in Southampton. Which feels right as tonight is the first night on the UK leg of the current Suicide Silence tour. Tonight’s bill is stacked from the ground up. It will also be interesting to see if the new songs translate well to the live setting. Opening tonight’s proceedings…
