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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Author: roppongirocks
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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Album review: Nightwish “Human. :||: Nature.”
Tuomas Holopainen and Nightwish are back with a splendid new double album. On “Human. :||: Nature.” the band continues on a journey further away from its metal roots.
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Album review: Testament “Titans of Creation”
Yes! The Bay Area heroes in Testament are back with an album that oozes uncompromising old-school thrash metal.
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Album review: Bonfire “Fistful of Fire”
German melodic hard rock band Bonfire is back with a new studio album filled with 1980s-inspired music with riff-happy guitars, plenty of keyboards and great melodies.
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EP review: Candlemass “The Pendulum”
Swedish doom masters Candlemass return with an EP of unused tracks from the band’s “The Door to Doom” recording sessions. It is doomy awesomeness.
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