It’s not every day a line-up like this is announced for a show. A Behemoth tour or show of any sort by itself is cause for celebration throughout the metal community, with the Polish lords of extreme metal now back to full strength following Nergal’s battle with Leukemia. With their brand new album, entitled “The…
Like a dose of classic thrash metal? Then you should be very pleased with the news that there is new music available from Bay Area thrashers Death Angel for your listening pleasure. The band are streaming a new track from their forthcoming album The Dream Calls For Blood over at their website. The song, entitled…
Following months of speculation as to where they might end up following the conclusion of their record deal with Roadrunner Records and a lot of negotiations, it has been announced that the mighty Machine Head have joined forces with the equally mighty Nuclear Blast! In what seems like a match made in metal heaven, the…
Competence – “the ability to do something successfully or efficiently” and, incidentally a word that describes perfectly ‘Savages’ the latest album by Soulfly. Having released three albums in the past four years Soulfly certainly have a reputation for quantity. ‘Savages’ easily keeps up the quality. Max Cavalera has long ceased to break musical boundaries like…
For all the mega-selling, stadium filling, world beating acts in the metal community like Slipknot heavy metal will never stop needing the mid-tier, old reliables such as Children of Bodom. Bands like Bodom are the lifeblood of our genre and, albums like ‘Halo of Blood’ are the lifeblood of these bands. However, don’t confuse the…
This coming weekend will see Bury Tomorrow’s biggest show of their careers thus far – opening up the main stage at the Reading and Leeds annual bank holiday festival double header. Ahead of those special shows, the band have released a new music video featuring footage from one of their career highlights so far. Having…
The Defiled’s second album Daggers, the follow up to 2011’s Grave Times, has been a long time coming. It’s been over a year since the band headed to Florida’s Audio Hammer studio to record with acclaimed metal producer Jason Suecof. Anticipation for Daggers has been on a constant rise, with fans eager to her how…
Swedish power metal superstars Sabaton have got some rather exciting news! The band have announced the forthcoming release of their first ever live DVD (also coming to Blu-Ray), entitled “Swedish Empire Live”. Enough from us, hear the words directly from Sabaton themselves: “We can now confirm the release date of the DVD/Blu Ray we recorded…
Having signed to Nuclear Blast Records earlier this year after two decades with Roadrunner Records, Brazillian metal stalwarts Soulfly have been hard at work in the studio, creating their first album for their new record label home. The album does not yet have a title, but Max and the rest of the band, including Zyon…
A couple of hours prior to the band’s stunning breakthrough performance where they smashed The Pepsi Max Tent and its inhabitants to smithereens at Download 2013, Rocksins was lucky enough to catch up with Bury Tomorrow frontman Daniel Winter-Bates backstage at Donington. Dan talked about the bands he was looking forward to seeing at the…
