Rock Sound#Hall of Fame/Throwback
{{Short description|British rock music magazine}}
{{For|the place|Rock Sound, Bahamas}}
{{Third-party|date=October 2022}}
{{Infobox magazine
| title = Rock Sound
| image_file = Rock Sound 2014 edition.jpg
| image_caption = Chester Bennington and Mike Shinoda of Linkin Park on the cover of June 2014 edition
| language = English
| category = Music magazine
| frequency = Monthly
| firstdate = 1999
| company = WhyNow
| country = United Kingdom
| website = [http://www.rocksound.tv/ www.rocksound.tv]
[https://www.rocksound.fr/ www.rocksound.fr]
| issn = 1465-0185
}}
Rock Sound is a British magazine that covers rock music. The magazine aims at being more "underground" and less commercial, while also giving coverage to better-known acts. It generally focuses on pop punk, post-hardcore, metalcore, punk, emo, hardcore, heavy metal and extreme metal genres of rock music, rarely covering indie rock music at all. The tag-line "For those who like their music loud, extreme and non-conformist" is sometimes used. Although primarily aimed at the British market, the magazine is also sold in Australia, Canada and the United States.
History
The British edition of Rock Sound was launched in March 1999 by the French publisher Editions Freeway. The magazine was bought out by its director, Patrick Napier, in December 2004. The magazines offices are in London and Paris. Separate titles with the same name have been published under the same umbrella company in France since 1993,[http://991.com/newGallery/Oasis-Rock-Sound-CD--Ma-292356.jpg Rock Sound France – Oasis Cover][http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i28/MissZombilicious/Magazines/covers/RockSoundOctob1999.gif?t=1163956859 Rock Sound France – Marilyn Manson][http://disques.de.l.annee.free.fr/rocksoun.html Rock Sound France – Choix Des Critiques] and in Spain since 1998.[http://991.com/newGallery/Foo-Fighters-Rock-Sound--CD---282109.jpg Rock Sound Spain – Foo Fighters][http://991.com/newGallery/Rammstein-Rock-Sound-Magazi-326676.jpg Rock Sound Spain – Rammstein]
The first issue was published in April 1999. Issue 2 featured British band Reef on the front cover, and later issues 3 and 8 featured Terrorvision and Foo Fighters respectively. In July 2011 a host of "Through The Years" articles were written to celebrate the 150th issue of the magazine.[http://www.rocksound.tv/blog/article/rock-sound-at-150-10-covers-where-we-truly-lost-the-plot Rock Sound – Covers 150] 2017 witnessed the first annual Rock Sound Awards where £1 from every magazine bundle sold was donated to the One More Light Fund in memory of Chester Bennington.{{Cite web|url=https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/meet-the-winners-of-the-first-ever-rock-sound-awards|title=Meet The Winners Of The First Ever Rock Sound Awards! – News – Rock Sound Magazine|website=Rock Sound Magazine|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-06-05}}
The magazine was known for including a free CD in most issues, which had tracks from bands' new albums that have not been released as singles. These were called '100% Volume' or 'The Volumes', with other past compilations named 'Music With Attitude', 'Bugging Your Ears!', 'Sound Check' and 'Punk Rawk Explosion'.[http://www.discogs.com/label/Rock%20Sound Discogs – Rock Sound] Sometimes whole albums were included with the magazine, particularly from bands wanting to gain exposure, including Futures' debut album The Holiday in March 2010, and Burn The Fleet's debut album The Modern Shape in May 2012.[http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/rock-sound-161-digital-compilation Rock Sound – Digital Compilation]
In more recent years, exclusive artist merchandise including t-shirts have been sold alongside the magazine via the Rock Sound web store.
In 2023, Rock Sound became part of WhyNow media group and a special edition magazine was published in partnership with Slam Dunk Festival featuring headliners Enter Shikari and The Offspring on the cover. A weekly digital cover feature, The Album Story, was also launched on ROCKSOUND.TV.{{Cite web |date=2023-04-04 |title=whynow Media acquires Rock Sound |url=https://www.inpublishing.co.uk/articles/whynow-media-acquires-rock-sound-21807 |access-date=2023-11-30 |website=InPublishing |language=en}}
In 2024, [https://rocksound.fr/ Rocksound.fr] will take over in France.
Rock Sound's 300th issue was published in September 2023 with Fall Out Boy, Corey Taylor and Motionless In White appearing on the cover. The magazine will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2024.
Audience
The magazine had a circulation figure of 15,005 from January to December 2010 auditored by ABC. This includes 10,162 sales in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 4,843 from Other Countries. The same auditing body said the magazine had a slightly lower circulation figure of 14,227 from January to December 2011, with sales of 10,053 from the United Kingdom and Ireland, and 4,174 from Other Countries. The majority of sales come from newstrade, with some coming from subscriptions.
The main rival to the magazine in Britain is Kerrang! because of the similar types of music both magazines cover.{{Citation needed|date=September 2016}}
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Album of the Year
At the end of every year the magazine lists their favourite 75 albums released in the previous twelve months.
- 1999 – Filter – Title of Record{{usurped|1=[https://archive.today/20120909021106/http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/steveparker/rocksound.htm Rockmusiclists RS 1999–2006]}}
- 2000 – A Perfect Circle – Mer de Noms
- 2001 – System of a Down – Toxicity
- 2002 – Isis – Oceanic
- 2003 – Hell Is for Heroes – The Neon Handshake
- 2004 – Isis – Panopticon
- 2005 – Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness
- 2006 – The Bronx – The Bronx[http://www.myspace.com/rocksound/blog/213044749 RS MySpace Top 75 2006]
- 2007 – Biffy Clyro – Puzzle[http://www.wordsfromreuben.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=5389&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0&sid=e533dad857875df4164fa10d29ffd059 Reuben Forum RS Top 75 2007]
- 2008 – Genghis Tron – Board Up the House[http://www.rocksound.tv/blog/article/top-75-albums-of-2008 RS Top 75 2008]
- 2009 – Mastodon – Crack the Skye[http://www.rocksound.tv/news/article/top-75-albums-of-2009-part-three RS Top 75 2009]
- 2010 – Bring Me the Horizon – There Is a Hell Believe Me I've Seen It. There Is a Heaven Let's Keep It a Secret[http://www.rocksound.tv/features/article/top-75-albums-of-2010-part-five-15-1 RS Top 75 2010]
- 2011 – Mastodon – The Hunter[http://www.rocksound.tv/news/article/album-of-the-year-countdown-number-1 RS Album of the Year Countdown 2011]
- 2012 – The Menzingers – On the Impossible Past
- 2013 – letlive – The Blackest Beautiful{{cite web|url = http://www.rocksound.tv/photos/view/the-50-best-albums-of-2013-part-five-10-1 | title = The 50 Best Albums Of 2013 Part Five: 10 – 1 | work = Rock Sound | date = 6 December 2013 | access-date = 7 August 2014 }}
- 2014 – Lower Than Atlantis – Lower Than AtlantisBird, ed. 2015, p. 30
- 2015 – Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit
- 2016 – Panic! at the Disco – Death of a Bachelor
- 2017 – All Time Low – Last Young Renegade
- 2018 – Twenty One Pilots – Trench{{Cite news|url=https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/introducing-your-2018-rock-sound-awards-winners|title=Introducing Your 2018 Rock Sound Awards Winners – News – Rock Sound Magazine|work=Rock Sound Magazine|access-date=2018-11-30|language=en-GB}}
- 2023 – Sleep Token – Take Me Back to Eden{{cite web |title=Rock Sound's Top 50 Albums Of 2023 {{!}} The Album Story |url=https://rocksound.tv/features/top-50-albums-of-2023 |website=Rock Sound |access-date=18 December 2024 |date=15 December 2023}}
- 2024 – Twenty One Pilots – Clancy{{cite web |title=Rock Sound's Top 24 Albums Of 2024 |url=https://rocksound.tv/features/rock-sounds-top-24-albums-of-2024 |website=Rock Sound |access-date=18 December 2024 |date=5 December 2024}}
Hall of Fame/Throwback
Rock Sound inducted numerous albums into its Hall of Fame, as part of a long-running feature. The main criterion for inclusion was thought to be influence – even within a particular genre – and for that reason many of the albums have been commercially successful as well as critically successful because they have then gone on to influence large numbers of bands or the music scene. Thus this differs from the Yearly Top Albums lists which do not take influence into account. In each article there was normally an interview with band members, a commentary on the album's release, a look at its initial success, and reaction from other musicians or participants in the album's creation - such as producers, engineers, and music video directors. Towards the end of this section's run it was renamed to "Throwback".
Rock Sound Records
In 2019, Rock Sound introduced a new venture titled Rock Sound Records, a sub-brand of Rock Sound offering and distributing music in limited physical formats, such as cassette tapes and vinyl records. Generally, this involves the exclusive physical release of a record released by a band that is signed to a different (major) record label. For instance, the first Rock Sound Records release was a cassette tape version of Simple Creatures′ debut EP Strange Love, while the band is currently signed to BMG.[https://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/get-your-world-exclusive-cassette-copy-of-simple-creatures-debut-ep-from-ro GET YOUR WORLD EXCLUSIVE CASSETTE COPY OF SIMPLE CREATURES’ DEBUT EP FROM ROCK SOUND RECORDS]
= Discography =
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| #
! Artist ! Title ! Release date ! Format |
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| align=center| 1.
| Strange Love | Cassette tape |
| align=center| 2.
| PUP | Cassette tape |
| align=center| 3.
| Welcome to the Neighbourhood | Cassette tape |
| align=center| 4.
| Even More Acoustic Songs | Vinyl record |
| align=center| 5.
| Sum 41 | Cassette tape |
| align=center| 6.
| Sudden Sky | 24 June 2019 [https://twitter.com/CrownTheEmpire/status/1143290199499104256 Crown The Empire on Twitter] | Vinyl record + magazine |
| align=center| 7.
| A Different Shade Of Blue | 7 August 2019 [https://twitter.com/knockedloose/status/1159147188158472195 Knocked Loose on Twitter] | Cassette tape |
| align=center| 8.
| Issues | 12 August 2019 [https://twitter.com/rocksound/status/1160944055821438976 Rock Sound on Twitter] | Vinyl record |
| align=center| 9.
| Fandom | 30 August 2019 | Vinyl record + cassette tape |
| align=center| 10.
| Nella Vita | 3 September 2019 | Cassette tape |
See also
References
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- {{cite journal|editor1-last=Bird|editor1-first=Ryan|title=Top 50 Albums of the Year|journal=Rock Sound|date=January 2015|issue=195|publisher=Freeway Press Inc.|location=London|issn=1465-0185}}
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External links
- [http://www.rocksound.tv/ Official website]
- [https://www.rocksound.fr/ French website]
{{British contemporary music magazines}}
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Category:1999 establishments in the United Kingdom
Category:Monthly magazines published in the United Kingdom