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 news long awaited by ourselves here at Rock Sins, our good friends and London’s very own sludge / doom riff masters Hang The Bastard have confirmed various details of their forthcoming brand new album. Titled Sex In The Seventh Circle, the album will be landing on the 22nd of September in the UK and…
In recent years, the British metal festival calendar has kicked off with the annual trip to North Wales for Hammerfest and 2015 will be no different. Hammerfest 7 will be returning to it’s regular home at Hafan Y Mor Holiday Park and they’ve just announced the first group of bands that will play at the…
It all started last night when a link was passed around a few Facebook accounts, claiming to have access to a “friends and family” link for the Black Sabbath British Summer Time Festival show in Hyde Park next week where you could buy tickets for just £2.50. Thinking this was an internal link for the…
One of London’s finest proponents of doom and sludge metal mixed in with a barrel full of riffs, Hang The Bastard have just confirmed their first show of 2014. It’s one hell of a show too, as they have been announced to supporrt the mighty Crowbar on the London show of Crowbar’s 2014 UK tour…
And so, it falls to my turn to collate my own summary on the weird, wonderful and down-right frustrating releases of the year 2013. Let it be said, it hasn’t been the most notable year for music… but maybe that’s because Opeth and Mastodon were so relatively quiet 😉 –##– Album of the Year :…
Hang The Bastard are currently one of the UK’s finest metal bands. They may not yet have the mainstream exposure of their friends Sylosis, or some of the other bands flying high such as While She Sleeps or Bury Tomorrow, but 2013 has been Hang The Bastard’s best year to date. The crowning moment of…
Fresh from having the song DYAD featured as track of the week last night (2nd September 2013) on the Daniel P Carter Radio One Rock Show, London’s doom & sludge riff lords Hang The Bastard have announced the release of a Double A-Side single. Featuring their recent fan’s favourite Sweet Mother alongside new song DYAD,…
After all the build up, the band announcements, the hype, the anxious constant monitoring of the ever unpredictable British weather and worst of all the waiting, the eleventh annual Download Festival at Donington Park was finally upon us. Even before the bands had begun to play at 2013’s installment of the festival plenty had transpired….
Back in 2003, I went to my first Download festival following the last ever Ozzfest at Donington in 2002. Whilst memories of IRON MAIDEN, SIKTH, DEFTONES, STAMPIN’ GROUND, SEPULTURA and of course those cheeky chaps in METALLICA remain steadfast as being some of my greatest, throughout the years many of the following Downloads have involved…
