EP review: Sonika Howl “Sonika Howl”
A new Swedish band gives us groovy haze rock on debut EP.
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Album review: Tokyo Blade “Fury”
British heavy metal band Tokyo Blade celebrates turning 40 with a new album.
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Video premiere: Anoxia “Take Down the Mountains”
Danish heavy metal band Anoxia releases a new song from a forthcoming label compilation LP.
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Ex-ELO and Black Sabbath member Bev Bevan on the drummers that inspired him
Former ELO and Black Sabbath drummer Bev Bevan talks with Roppongi Rocks’ Stefan Nilsson about the singles that influenced him and the drummers that played on them.
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Single review: Hostilia “Power Out” | Swedish thrash metal
Hostilia is a young but old-school-sounding thrash metal band from Gothenburg.
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Single review: Zinny Zan “Heartbreak City”
Zinny Zan (Easy Action, Shotgun Messiah, Zan Clan) is back with a solid hard rock single for your car stereo.
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The Roppongi Rocks Music Awards – What rocked our world in 2021
2021 has come to an end and it is time for us to sum up the best from the world of rock music of the past year with The Roppongi Rocks Music Awards.
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Album review: Magnum “The Monster Roars”
British rock band Magnum celebrates five decades of music with an excellent new studio album.
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Video premiere: JD Miller “Inside the Night”
New single from Swedish melodic hard rock band JD Miller.
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Video premiere: Tersivel “The Ferryman”
The Argentine/Swedish band returns with a bag full of deathy and doomy post-metal.
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Album review: Necrophagous “In Chaos Ascend” ︱Swedish death metal
Yes, it’s more Swedish death metal and it is bloody good.
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Album review: Ritva Nero “Immortal Tradition”
Spellbinding instrumental folk music with a metal twist to it.
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Album review: Tony Martin “Thorns” ︱ Ex-Black Sabbath man still got it
Former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin shows us he’s still got it on his new solo album.
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