Who wants a triple dose of AFI news? Can you say – tour news, new music video and new album incoming in the very new future? Firstly, the tour. It has been announced that AFI will be appearing as main support to the mighty Deftones on their run of three UK arena shows in May…
Deftones’ eighth album ‘Gore’ is a good addition to their back catalogue, providing you can give it valuable time to properly sink in and appreciate its appeal.
With UK metal bruisers Deference winning last time out, it’s now time for another video of the week with five fresh offerings for your viewing pleasure! Finnish folk metal favourites Korpiklaani are first up for this weeks’ vote with a corker of an animated video. A Man With A Plan deserves your attention – so…
Last night on Dan Carter’s BBC Radio One Rock Show the second batch of bands for next years’ Download Festival were announced and there’s some huge bands in there! First off the blocks (and predicted by many including some of the Rock Sins staff) none other than Chino Moreno and Deftones, who in an awful…
After recovering from a very late night following on from dancing the night away with The Prodigy and beyond, team Rock Sins geared up for the second day of festivities for Sonisphere 2014 at Knebworth Park. If you missed the first part of our Sonisphere Knebworth 2014 review covering the Friday (including Limp Bizkit, Anthrax,…
In an announcement that was partially leaked by the good people at Kerrang yesterday, Sonisphere Knebworth have confirmed the latest batch of bands to be added to the festival line up in the UK this July. Heading the dozen new acts to play Sonispheere Knebworth are legendary US alt-metal group Deftones, who will be taking…
[youtube id=”mkkOLMTOM7s” width=”600″ height=”350″] Deftones have released a skate video for the song ‘Romantic Dreams’ taken from last years Koi No Yokan album. Directed by skater and filmmaker Brett Novak the video follows Jason Park on a cold night in LA. Park hits all of the hots sports on some sort of stealth mission. Frontman…
As many of us in the metal community know, sadly in April of this year Deftones bassist Chi Cheng lost his long struggle with illness after being in a coma and semi-comatose state for many years. Throughout his illness the “OneLoveForChi” project had helped to fundraise towards the medical costs associated with Chi’s long stay…
In short, this sounds exactly what you would expect ISIS and Chino to sound like; a well produced, emotive and peaceful balance of four fantastic musicians. That said, essentially it is ISIS through and through; melodic / sweeping ambience and guitar strokes; it’s very much a mix of the ‘Panopticon’ / ‘Wavering Radiant’ era and…
It’s fair to say that the rock community, when it comes down to it, is a fairly small one, so when we lose one of our own we all feel it on a personal level. Having heard of the sad passing of Chi Cheng, bass player and founding member of the Deftones, the outpouring of…
