Vio-lence. The name says it all. You want neck-breaking thrash metal about the darker sides of life? To feel like Slayer never went away? Then this is your band. Originally formed in 1985, this Bay Area quintet has established a solid reputation for peeling faces. After lead singer Sean Killian recovered from a rather severe…
The second day of Bloodstock dawned bright, and blearily for some punters following the festivities of Twisted Sister the night before. Another fantastic day of the best heavy music can offer awaited though, from Cambion and their Ronnie James Dio stage début, through to Mastodon’s first ever UK festival headline slot through to a triumphant return…
Fear Factory have been around a good while. Often credited as the first band to blend harsh vocals and clean singing courtesy of stalwart Burton C. Bell, the band have been celebrating 20 years since the release of their landmark 1995 album Demanufacture with a UK tour. On December 13, accompanied by Dead Label and…
Bloodstock Open Air has announced three more bands for next August’s annual mosh-fest in Derbyshire. US prog metallers Symphony X (pictured) – making an exclusive UK festival appearance – join Sunday, with Slayer topping that bill. Fellow Americans, industrial metal legends, Fear Factory will hit the Ronnie James Dio Stage on Saturday, headlined by Mastodon….
Industrial metal legends Fear Factory have just unleashed one hell of a tour announcement upon the UK and Europe. For six weeks across November and December 2015, Fear Factory will be travelling across our continent performing a very special tour that will see them play their magnum opus Demanufacture in it’s entirety for the very…
Sylosis are undoubtedly one of the breakthrough bands of the British metal scene of the last couple of years. Having toured the UK and elsewhere extensively over the last eighteen months in support of their second album, the metal Behemoth that is The Edge Of The Earth (read a review here), we are very pleased…
After two days of enduring pretty much everything that the British climate could throw at us short of lightning striking our campsite, the arrival of Friday at Donington Park made us grateful for two reasons. One the weather had relented ever so slightly, and two it was time for some music to hopefully help make…
With the tenth anniversary of the UK’s biggest rock & metal gathering of the year, otherwise known as the Download Festival barely two weeks away from kicking off, Rocksins is taking a a three part look at some of the bands who’ll be gracing the various stages this year and offering up our picks of…
Industrial metal legends Fear Factory have announced in the last few hours via their Facebook page that they have parted ways with their bassist of the last several years Byron Stroud (formerly of Strapping Young Lad, amongst other projects). Wasting no time, singer Burton C Bell and guitarist Dino Cazares have announced Byron’s replacement and…
