With Download Festival 2024 firmly on the horizon, at the end of last year Rock Sins had the opportunity to catch up with one of Download’s top team, promoter and booker Kamran Haq. We had the opportunity to catch up with Kam on recovering from Download’s epic 20th anniversary edition in 2023, aspects of the…
Slipknot have today announced they’ll be celebrating 25 years of both their debut self-titled album, and 25 years of coming to Europe by confirming a huge UK and European tour for the end of next year. Rumours started a couple of days ago with the reveal of the herecomesthepain website. The website soon began telling…
New While She Sleeps music! Following the release of the polarising single Self Hell, and the announcement of their upcoming new album (also called Self Hell), the Sheffield metalcore favourites have dropped the second single from their impending new album. For their new single Down, While She Sleeps have recruited their good friend Alex Taylor…
Having had a successful yet turbulent year in 2023, UK metalcore favourites Architects have unveiled a brand new single which may please fans of some of their older material. The pulverising Seeing Red feels like a mix of some of their peak heavy material from Lost Forever // Lost Together and All Our Gods Have…
Punk Rock Factory may have been seen by some initially as a bit of a novelty act. Truth is, they probably are a novelty act – but there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that! Whether you class them as one or not, what they are is incredibly good fun. Their punk rock covers of songs from…
Download 2024 is go! Following in the footsteps of other European festivals like Rock AM Ring and Nova Rock over the last week or so, the Download Festival team have unleashed the bulk of the 2024 Line up in one huge announcement. For the first time since 2012, the Download Festival has two new headliners…
With their excellent new album Ultraviolet released earlier this year, fans of As Everything Unfolds had been eagerly awaiting some headline shows. Following support slots with Enter Shikari, European tours and festival slots, their London show at Islington Academy was the second of two headline dates this week. Before As Everything Unfolds, Lake Malice (7)…
Over the 20 years of the Download Festival so far, Alter Bridge have been one of the mainstays. Making their first appearance in 2005, The US hard rock quartet have been regular visitors to Donington with slots growing each time, to the point where many, ourselves here at Rock Sins included, have been clamouring for…
Day four of Download Festival 2023. The Download faithful are into unchartered territory here; Usually the Donington masses are on their way at home at this point in proceedings. Not this year. With a fourth full day to look forward to full of bands as varied as Slipknot, Ghost, Electric Callboy, Bloodywood and Avatar, it’s…
Many a sore head can be found at Donington Park on Friday morning; The masses of the campsites of Download Festival 2023 recharging after a brilliant first day of the event (for those yet to do so, please check out our full review of the first day of Download 2023). With a huge variety of…
After months of waiting, the most eagerly awaited Download Festival in years was upon us. The twentieth anniversary of the modern trek to the hallowed Donington turf. For the twentieth edition of the festival, aka Download 2023, the 90,000ish in attendance are to be treated to not three, but four full days of music across…
We are just a few days away from the long awaited 20th anniversary edition of the Download Festival aka Download 2023! There are over 100 bands appearing across the four full days of the festival, plus the five bands in the boardie takeover on Wednesday kicking off the festival. Not to mention loads of the…
