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’…
Last week London alternative quartet This Year’s Ghost were the winners of video of the week. Now it’s the turn of five more bands – and we’ve got a particularly heavy crop this week – for our readers to vote on. French metal titans Gojira are first up this week. With a brand new album…
We thought we’d be due another Download Festival 2016 line up announcement before Christmas, and Andy Copping and his team have obliged with a monster of an announcement! Via their often used good friend, Daniel P Carter on the BBC Radio One Rock Show, ten new acts have been added to the festivities at Donington…
Legendary Californian speed thrash metal band Slayer has been confirmed to close next year’s Bloodstock Festival in Derbyshire next August. The fearsome foursome will top the bill on Sunday, following fellow headliners Twisted Sister (Friday) and Mastodon (Saturday). Kerry King and co. made their Bloodstock debut in 2013 just three months after the sad death…
As far as UK festival announcements go, this is pretty spectacular. Bloodstock Open Air Festival 2016 is already shaping up to be another amazing installment of the UK’s favourite independent metal festival, and the BOA team have pulled off some more cracking additions to the line up. Leading the charge in their highest profile UK…
After two days of enthralling rock, metal and the odd bit of dance courtesy of The Prodigy, not to mention hangovers and bangovers courtesy of the Raging Speedhorn VIP set on Saturday night, Rock Sins arrived somewhat groggily at the final day of the return of Sonisphere Knebworth 2014. If you’ve missed the first two…
Often known for their dazzling visuals and artwork as well as their blistering performances and all round metal brilliance, France’s finest ever metal export Gojira have released a brand new music video for the track Born In Winter. The song is one of the final tracks on Gojira’s 2012 brilliant album L’enfant Sauvage, which the…
In what’s one of the best festival announcements we’ve seen in quite awhile, the Sonisphere team have just confirmed another seven bands to play Sonisphere UK at Knebworth this coming July. Watch the video for the full unveiling: [youtube id=”tqEOisrixUc” width=”600″ height=”350″] If you weren’t able to watch the video for some reason, the seven…
After James’ picks from yesterday (which can be read on this link right here), today it’s the turn of one of our two Sam’s, Sam Dignon, to unveil his Rocksins end of year awards. Over to you Sam… 1) Album Of The Year: letlive. – The Blackest Beautiful After breaking through with 2011’s fantastic album…
It’s that time of year again where the Rocksins staff pick their great, good and not so good from the past year. First up this time around is James. 1) Album of the year: Chapters – The Imperial Skies I reviewed this earlier this year, but in short its one of the best progressive metal…
