Following on from the sights and sounds of Bloodstock Open Air Festival’s first day, we’re straight into the action on day two. After another soggy night out at the campsite it’s up to Canadian hardcore heavy hitters Cancer Bats (8) to wake everyone up and get things going on Saturday morning and they absolutely smash…
2000 Trees. Recently dubbed by Kerrang the UK’s best mid-sized festival, and once you’ve read this review of 2000 Trees 2019, you might well be inclined to agree with them. Our man on the ground Sam Savigny presents extensive coverage of all three days of the festival, following his earlier highlight summaries of Thursday, Friday…
Hot off the press from 2000 Trees 2019, here’s our highlights from the second day of the festival. A full report to follow once the festival has finished. If you missed them yesterday, you can catch up on the highlights from day one of 2000 Trees here. Not suffering from any sound gremlins were the…
It’s time once again for Slam Dunk to kick off the festival season. Returning to Hatfield house with its biggest line up yet, Slam Dunk looked set to get the season going with a bang and it did not disappoint. Whether it was the traditional pop-punk bands, NOFX’s Punk In Drublic festival or the amazing hardcore bands on…
Slam Dunk Festival 2019 is now just a handful of days away (seriously, how did it get so close so quickly?!) and we cannot wait. To help get you all in the mood for Slam Dunk, we’ve got a playlist for you all to spin. Featuring twenty six epic songs you might well hear across…
A couple of weeks ago, Cancer Bats and their touring friends Bleed From Within and Underside hit the Cambridge Junction for a night of metal fueled fun. Our photographer Daniel Ackerley-Holmes was on hand to capture all the action from Cancer Bats, so check out his extensive gallery of all the night’s action below. You…
January is generally pretty rubbish all things considered, everyone is on the big Christmas comedown and it tends to be pretty miserable and boring. Every now and then though something comes along and adds a little light to proceedings and in this case that would be Cancer Bats and chums who are back on these…
As we’re now just 16 days away from the gates of the Download Festival 2018 campsite opening for the first time, it is of course time for Rock Sins to continue our build up for our annual pilgramage to Donington. Those of a wrestling persuasion among our readers may have already seen our NXT at…
This weeks’ installment of the Rock Sins Spotify playlist is once again jam packed with great new singles, tracks from upcoming and recently released albums, and a few old favourites thrown in for good measure. Kicking things off with the mighty Architects “Nihilist”, we feature songs from a number of albums recently released by bands…
Nowadays it’s common for albums to have an excessive amount of time dedicated to pre-release hype. The teaser of an announcement, the first single and the actual announcement are all steps in this excessively long process. This makes it so refreshing when a band completely scraps this process and just drops a surprise album. Which…
