Still going strong, the 2018 Rock Sins End Of Year Awards welcome our second special guest – Metal Hammer scribe and Stereoboard’s resident metal expert, Alec Chillingworth. With his awards coming all the way from Sweden, we wonder if his choices might have a slightly Scandinavian flavour or not. Read on to find out! Album…
So, with Christmas upon us, we come to our annual tradition here at Rock Sins – The End Of Year Awards! First up to share his awards with everyone this year is Sam Savigny, so without any further, over to you Sam! Album of the Year: Fucked Up – Dose Your Dreams By a sixth album…
Muse are back with brand new music! Matt Bellamy and co have released their first new single since 2015’s Drones album, an album cycle which saw them go on to wow the Download Festival with an incredible headline performance two years ago. The new single, called Dig Down, has an accompanying music video that very…
It’s that time again for the Rock Sins staff to cast their eyes back over the great, the good and the not quite so good of the past twelve months from 2015. Kicking things off in traditional style is our features ed Jamie. You may spot something of a recurring theme with his picks this…
It was always going to happen wasn’t it? When Muse announce a tour, tickets are going to fly off the proverbial shelves in their thousands and that’s exactly what has happened. They’d sold out 2 shows at London’s O2 within ten minutes this morning, and a third show sold out by 9:30am, leading to a…
Words by Jamie Giberti, Lisa Fox, James Halstead, Sam Dignon, Jessica Howkins, James Weaver and Katie Needham. Photos by Jamie Giberti except where credited. Headline Muse photo by Richard Johnson. Following the torrential rain that started during Friday afternoon and carried right on through to the early hours of Saturday many of the occupants of…
With a good portion of us all recovering from another fantastic Download Festival, the week of Download has also coincided with some great sales news for rock albums in the UK album chart over the last week. To the surprise of very few people, Download’s Saturday night headliners, Devonshire rock trio Muse have hit number…
Although Rock Sins will have a full day-by-day and blow-by-blow account of all the action from the 2015 Download Festival, here’s half a dozen things we learned and observed over the course of the weekend that we thought we’d share with our readers prior to the main review! 1) Muse Can Headline Wherever They Want,…
Ah, Download middle Saturday. Often the best day of the festival for many, this year sees a wealth of great bands of all different types and sub-genres with even greater variety than usual. Once again Rock Sins has picked our ten must see bands for the day (although if you physically had the time there’s…
As far as surprise announcements go, Teignmouth rockers Muse announcing a series of dates just a week before playing them is pretty high on the list. Even more shocking was the announcement that the so-called ‘Psycho Tour’, named after the band’s new single, would take place in just six intimate venues around the UK, including…
