Bursting forth from their Danish homeland with enough ideas to put even the most ardent of musicians to shame, progressive quartet VOLA have set out their stall to become a shining beacon in the world of interesting, inventive and technically challenging rock music. With sophomore album ‘Applause of a Distant Crowd’ featuring more twists and…
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…
It’s that time of the year again when Bloodstock Open Air is almost upon us, so we’ve dedicated the return of our weekly spotify playlist to the UK’s favourite metal festival for the metal purists. With headliners Nightwish, Gojira and Judas Priest (who feature twice, because, let’s face it, who doesn’t love a double dose…
It’s time for some more bands for the UK’s favourite metal festival as Bloodstock Open Air announce more bands for the 2018 edition. Top of this new set of bands, and taking the special guest slot for Sunday night are Swedish Gothenburg Sound pioneers At The Gates. They will appear as special guests to Nightwish,…
Festival announcements are coming thick and fast and we’ve now got the first word from Tech-Fest HQ, as they’ve announced the first bands for the 2018 Tech-Fest! Topping this first announcement is an EU exclusive festival appearance from US deathcore mob The Acacia Strain, who sit atop the bill alongside prog metal outfit The Contortionist….
ArcTanGent was already shaping up to be a truly wonderous looking festival this year. The 2017 installment of the post-rock, shoegaze and hardcore festival based near Bristol was already boasting the likes of headliners Converge and Explosions In The Sky, TesseracT, Bossk, SikTh, God Is An Astronaut and more. Now they’ve gone and added another…
Following Youth Killed It’s close won victory in the first Rock Sins video of the week for 2017, we’ve got another five videos vying for your votes this week. First up prog metal legends Opeth have offered up something of a cinematic masterpiece with their new video for “Era”. Invoking the spirits of a few…
Around the start of March, Rock Sins decided to introduce a video of the week feature. Whilst we’ve not always been able to run it every week, since it’s introduction we’ve had 24 installments and it’s gone on to become one of our most popular parts of the website. So it’s only fitting that we…
It’s been nearly a month since our last video of the week contest where prog genre benders Vola came out on top – oops, where did September go? Not to worry though, we’ve got a bumper edition to make up for our tardiness. Eight brand new videos (including another great animated offering from our last…
It’s been nearly two weeks since our last video of the week contest, which was one by one of the most aesthetically pleasing videos we’ve seen all year. Danish prog / electro rock outfit Vola were a relatively new band to us here at Rock Sins, but we were mightily impressed with the animated video…
With the holiday weekend approaching here in the UK, we thought we’d schedule our video of the week contest a little differently this time. There’s still the usual five videos to vote for, to see who will follow last weeks’ winners Servers! Onto the action…. First up this week are Yorkshire firecracker five piece As…
