Album review: Dee Snider “For the Love of Metal – Live!”
Twisted Sister may have called it quits in 2016, but its frontman Dee Snider keeps delivering both in the studio and live.
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Author: roppongirocks
Album review: The Lightbringer of Sweden “Rise of the Beast”
Metal band The Lightbringer of Sweden teams up with German vocalist Herbie Langhans, of Avantasia and Firewind fame, to create a fab 1980s metal-influenced album.
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Album review: Deep Purple “Whoosh!”
The seasoned gentlemen in Deep Purple are still at it. Their new Bob Ezrin-produced album “Whoosh!” is a solid album of grown-up bluesy rock but with some nuanced twists and turns.
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Album review: Alcatrazz “Born Innocent”
Graham Bonnet, Jimmy Waldo and Gary Shea have reunited in a fab new line-up of Alcatrazz. “Born Innocent”, the band’s first studio album since 1986, is a rather exquisite album of melodic hard rock.
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Single review: Band of Brothers “This Ain’t No Place for the Broken Hearted”
Sweden’s Band of Brothers offers us catchy and radio-friendly melodic rock on its new single.
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Interview: At home with Tony Franklin | “We will come through this and things will be even better”
English bassist Tony Franklin, aka The Fretless Monster, made a name for himself performing with Roy Harper, The Firm, Whitesnake and Blue Murder.
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Album review: Electric Feel Good “Capital City Madness”
Dusty Swedish rockers Electric Feel Good are back and they have a new full-length studio album in their backpack. Let’s have a barbeque because this is smoky meat-and-beers music.
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Interview: At home with Shane Embury
Shane Embury is perhaps best known as the bassist in Napalm Death. But he is also involved in many other bands and projects across multiple genres, such as Lock Up, Bent Sea, Brujeria, Venomous Concept, Tronos and much more.
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Interview: At home with Kiyoshi
Roppongi Rocks’ Stefan Nilsson checked in with fab Japanese artist Kiyoshi, perhaps best known as the fierce bassist in Marty Friedman’s band, to see what she’s up to.
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Album review: Firewind “Firewind”
Greek guitar wizard Gus G makes a fresh start with a splendid new Firewind album.
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EP review: Camp Marshy “Black Soul, White Shoes & A Leather Jacket”
Sweden’s Camp Marshy is back with a punky party-rock EP. I love the simplicity and catchiness of this band.
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Album review: Naglfar “Cerecloth”
Sweden’s Naglfar combines fierce black metal with melodic death metal touches on “Cerecloth”, its first studio album in eight years.
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Album review: Chugger “Of Man and Machine”
Sweden’s Chugger is back with a new album filled with groovy extreme metal.
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