As it’s been a few weeks since the last Rock Sins video of the week contest (the Download Festival special which saw Ashestoangels come out as winners) due to things being manic here at Rock Sins HQ, we thought we’d have a slightly bigger edition this week than usual. Rather than the usual five videos,…
We’ve been extremely tardy in announcing this but never fear, we made it in the end. After battling it out with their fellow Download performers, Bristol new grave goth punks Ashestoangels swept home the most recent video of the week contest with a landslide victory. Their bleak video for Down We Go took home the…
If only one band in the world can sincerely claim to have risked their lives for their music, District Unknown surely has to be considered a candidate. Generally regarded as Afghanistan’s first heavy metal band, the group faced many threats not generally faced by Western bands, including playing in country ravaged by war for nearly…
The gates to the campsite of the 2016 Download Festival will be open in just a few hours time! So while you’re sat waiting in the queue, on your travels on the way to Donington, or just wishing you were going, please check out our pick of who and what to see at this years’…
As the gates of the wonderful Donington open tomorrow lunchtime, we’re having something of a Download Festival video of the week special this time around. We’ve got brand new videos from four bands who will be gracing the hallowed turf of Castle Donington, plus a brand new video from a band who’ve entertained the Download…
In what was another highly competitive video of the week contest here at Rock Sins, Swedish indie metal outfit 100 Years went toe-to-toe with American emo rockers Farewell, My Love and UK natives Veridian in the most recent vote. With the lead changing hands several times, ultimately a huge late push from 100 Years’ Scandinavian…
Last time out Heel won a titanic battle with Moments Till Fall to just claim the video of the week “trophy”. This time around we’re back to our usual quota of five bands vying to win this weeks’ award, so let’s get on with it! First up this time are Arizona rockers Farewell, My Love….
After a titanic struggle between London’s alt rockers Heel and Texan metalcore outfit Moments Till Fall which lasted the entire week, Heel have taken home the crown for the latest Rock Sins video of the week. With the highest number of votes cast in total for a Rock Sins’ video of the week contest so…
Three venues (including one new bigger one), eight stages and almost seventy bands. Put them all together and you have the recipe for success at the Slam Dunk Festival triple header for 2016! From our headliners Panic! At The Disco to Creeper, and from Young Guns to Heart Of A Coward, there are acts on…
Things went a bit haywire in the Rock Sins camp last week, so there was no video of the week contest. As a result, we’ve decided to double the numbers this week. That’s right, a whopping TEN videos to choose from. First up in this bumper edition of the Rock Sins video of the week…
