Noise masters Igorrr recently descended upon UK shores for a short run of shows. Rock Sins was present at the Manchester date of the tour to bring our readers a full run down of the action. Otto Van Schirach (5) has been making music since 2001. He is a one-man act, screaming from behind DJ…
Let’s face it, the last few Covid-inflicted years have been a pretty miserable affair for all of us. And, while the world’s slowly returning to a somewhat more normal state, between the economic and environmental crisis and the war in Ukraine, fun is still a thing that rarely finds a space to call home anymore….
Some months ago, Devin Townsend announced a huge headline show at London’s Royal Albert Hall. Devin devotees quickly scrambled for tickets, leading to a second show being added the night before, ironically becoming the first show, and the original show becoming the second one. Devin promised these two shows would be “The Greatest Sets Of…
After their last two albums, the new release from Papa Roach, is greeted with a certain amount of trepidation. So it’s a relief when Kill The Noise opens the album all swagger and rage, a theme that continues with Stand Up. Papa Roach matured and grew their sound gradually since debuting with Infest (2000), which…
Immutable, meaning unchanging over time, is a word that’s at odds with itself when used in relation to Meshuggah. Since their debut, Contradictions Collapse (1991), the band have certainly gone through stages of evolution but the reason they are respected as one of the most significant bands in the history of heavy music is because…
The boys are back in town! After a smattering of reunion shows and occasional teasing with the idea of a full-blown The Hellacopters comeback, here we are with a shiny new album from Sweden’s stonking retro-rockers. Eyes Of Oblivion is the first The Hellacopters album since they signed off with Heads Off all the way…
On Good Friday, a night of ghoulish fun descended on Birmingham for the final night of Ghost’s Imperatour in the UK. After already playing their biggest show to date on these shores at the O2 Arena a few days before, the birthplace of metal provided one last chance to party with the papa in celebration…
Therapy?. Not many bands can say they’ve pissed off journalists trying to write about them around the world because they decided to keep a silly typo, but Therapy? are that band and here they are celebrating their 30th, I mean, 32nd anniversary with a string of dates long delayed by that bastard Covid. The delay…
The mighty Wolf is at the door and about to set loose album number nine! Shadowland sees the ever-resilient Swedish four-piece return with traditionally rooted and nonsense-free heavy metal. We’ve given the game away here; Wolf have compiled another tasty selection of tunes that won’t win them any awards for innovation or pushing the musical…
Gloucester’s Underground Festival returned on March 26th with 30 bands across four stages and three indoor venues. With the weather on their side and free admission to the festival, the stage(s) was set for a brief taster to wet your appetite for what is to come in the summer once festival season gets underway. Cult…
