Things just got a whole lot more interesting for Download next year (not that it wasn’t looking good already). Andy Copping and the powers that be at Castle Donington have unleashed another dozen bands for our collective enjoyment for the Download Festival 2014! First up are former Download headliners and US pop punk band The…
First up are Dead Harts (7) who play a great set of well-constructed hardcore tunes that nicely warms the crowd up for what is to follow. Feed the Rhino (9) who follow are nothing short of astonishing. The band hurl themselves around the venue with a manic fury, especially frontman Lee Tobin who seems to…
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…
We all know the British weather can be really shit, and recently has been no exception. However, in amongst all the chaos of people having no heatening, their roads being blocked by snow and god knows what else, an awful lot of people have their flights to destinations all over the world cancelled. While She…
After much speculation, on Monday the final headliners for the last of the UK’s major Summer festivals, Reading and Leeds 2013 were confirmed. After releasing three albums over the course of the last year, none of us should be overly surprised that US pop punk legends Green Day were confirmed to join Eminem and Biffy…
2012 was quite a year for Yorkshire’s rising metal stars Asking Alexandria but that is looking like it was just the beginning. The York natives are set to cement their place alongside bands such as Bring Me The Horizon and Bullet For My Valentine as major UK metal players with the news that their January…
One of the most anticipated tours of 2012 hits the Garage in Glasgow. Opening this tour are the fantastic Polar [9]. Treating Glasgow to tracks from their amazing 2012 album Iron Lungs, as well as their EP This Polar Noise. Their brand of heavy-as-fuck hardcore gets the majority of the crowd moving, and vocalist Adam…
Right before they tore Glasgow a new one, we had a quick chat with While She Sleeps to talk about their forthcoming album and festival shows, amongst other things. How would you describe your band to someone who’s never heard you before? While She Sleeps: The next big thing haha. We’re a passionate, raw take…
While She Sleeps are easily one of the most promising bands in Britain today. Just take a listen to their début mini-album the North Stands For Nothing, the crushing combination of metal and hardcore really sets them apart from every other band in the British music scene right now. But anyone can make a good…
The last night of the Metal Hammer Razor Tour steamrollered into the Camden Underworld on Friday night, having thrilled sell out and near sell out crowds at every show up and down the country for the past week. How would the final night of the tour go when Rocksins went along to see it? Read…
