Released in March 2018, the debut album from Conjurer, Mire, was a real celebration in the UK metal scene as a new contender for the most exciting band around emerged. With four years of waiting to finally have its follow up arrive, it’s always felt like there was no rush for this band and that…
They’ve headlined festivals all over the UK and beyond, and for 2022, Biffy Clyro were invited back for their second crack at headlining the Download Festival, five years after doing so for the first time. Biffy have always relished in the idea that with their band, if you know then you know. Yes, they have…
If there’s anything to preface TV PRIEST’S second album My Other People with, it’s that it might just be one of the most beautiful arrangements of music you’ll listen to this year. They executed magnificently on the politically-powered post-punk album trope with their first record Uppers — but since then the band have gone through…
Back in the UK for the first time since 2017, Nine Inch Nails treated their Manchester audience to a truly amazing sold-out show at the legendary O2 Apollo. There to catch Trent Reznor and co in all their glory was our photographer, Emma Stone.
Ahhhh Rammstein. The German industrial metal pyro masters were last on these shores three years ago, bringing their gigantic, flame filled stadium show to Stadium MK in Milton Keynes. Three years and two covid postponements later, Till, Flake, Richard, Paul, Christoph and Oliver returned to the UK, this time to Coventry. Rammstein also came armed…
Anyone announcing a tour in the last couple of years must have felt like Axl Rose talking about Chinese Democracy (2008). Announcements, delays, reworked lineups and serious disappointment have all been par for the course in recent times. One such tour affected by this was the Hella Mega Tour featuring rock heavyweights GREEN DAY, FALL…
As the sun rose once again for the final morning of the 2022 Download Festival, many thoughts were on the mind of Team Rock Sins. How lucky we’d been with the weather and just how bloody good Iron Maiden had been the previous evening among them. For those who haven’t seen the other parts of…
It’s hard to believe the house lights are off as the flood of lurid white and dirty yellow fills Brixton. Dry ice billows forth from the stage, touching all the way to the back row of the balcony. Combined with the intense heat in the increasingly intimate feeling almost-5,000 capacity venue, it envelops the audience…
Rock and roll royalty in their own right, Kiss brought their End of the Road tour to the UK for Download weekend for one final farewell. After two years plagued by cancellations though, the road to Download Festival 2022 hasn’t been an easy one! Announced by the gods of thunder themselves back in 2018. Their…
Everybody has their ‘gateways’ that got them invested in the world of heavy music. Whether it was an attention-grabbing magazine cover, a captivating live performance or the act of playing a highly successful rhythm game series with a plastic guitar in hand, they’re a huge part of bringing new blood into the family. For every…
