Hit The Deck is Bristol and Nottingham’s annual, raucous start to the festival season. With a bill that gets bigger every year, this event has been one of the UK’s premier indoor festivals since its inception. Things are changed around a little at the Nottingham leg this year; the wristbands are made from paper not…
Here at Rock Sins we believe in real music. We are also huge fans of Steel Panther. So you cannot imagine our joy when this video appeared on the bands Facebook yesterday. Simply entitled “Kanye” we would love it if this song could be considered for next year’s #Grammys… if not, you can always check out…
Hit The Deck Festival is making it’s return in 2015 and they’re bringing one hell of an initial line-up. The annual April double header for Nottingham and Bristol is packing some of the UK (and beyond)’s finest as we get the ball rolling for the 2015 edition of Hit The Deck. Leading the way are…
Words by Sam Dignon & Jamie Giberti. After months of build up, anticipation, debates, celebration and complaints over the line up (as happen every year), Download Festival 2014 was finally upon us. Rock Sins descended en-masse to the hallowed turf of Donington with our best staff turn out yet to enjoy and report back on…
Skindred have a long standing reputation of being fantastic live and decidedly lacklustre on record. Having been a band now for sixteen years, they’ve been threatening to break through into the mainstream for some time. Is Kill The Power finally their crowning moment? Unfortunately, it seems not. Despite their best intentions and energetic frontman Benji…
2013 was a good year as far as the performance of rock and metal bands in the UK album charts were concerned, with the likes of Paramore, Black Sabbath and Avenged Sevenfold scoring number one albums, topped off by others such as Bring Me The Horizon and Alter Bridge bothering the top 10 in impressive…
Skindred have built up a reputation as one of the best live bands in the country, and tonight is the final date of their headline tour for their latest album Kill The Power. First up were LA band Viza (8) who brought along a very unique brand of gypsy punk. Whilst surprising a lot of…
Less than a fortnight after granting us fifteen new bands including Bowling For Soup, Opeth and Black Label Society, Andy Copping and the team at Download HQ have done it again. This latest announcement contains no less than twenty three acts ranging right across the broad spectrum of rock and metal, so without any further…
It’s that time of year where we start getting the first festival announcements for 2014! Since our friends down under tend to kick off festival season with Soundwave Festival, it seems only right that we’ve been given the Soundwave 2014 line-up this morning, and to say it’s impressive is something of an understatement. After having…
In recent years, there has been fairly slim pickings in terms of traditional rock bands (and even less so in terms of metal bands) on the bill at Reading and Leeds Festivals. This years lineup had already shown some signs of reversing this with the likes of Green Day and Biffy Clyro as headliners, plus…
