Interviews

The Hellacopters have a fab new album out and are touring again. Before their tour kicked off in Europe, Dregen swung by Roppongi Rocks headquarters in Tokyo to talk about the band, playing with Michael Monroe, launching his own Riff beer, the art of Charlie Granberg, welding, the Roppongi Rocks sofa and much more.

Swedish extreme metal band Defleshed has reunited its classic 1990s line-up and relesed a fab new album. Roppongi Rocks’ Stefan Nilsson checked in with bassist/vocalist Gustaf Jorde ahead of their December Japan tour.

Atomic Swing’s Tomoko Sukenobu talks to Roppongi Rocks about her musical and personal journey from Japan to Stockholm.

On 5th November, Kelly SIMONZ will perform as Ritchie Blackmore during the Rainbow part of the Legend of Rock tribute shows in Tokyo.

Dirk Verbeuren talks to Roppongi Rocks about the new Megadeth album “The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!” and reveals that he will also release a new Bent Sea album.

Venom Inc will release its second album “There’s Only Black” in September.

Roppongi Rocks checks in with Charlie Granberg, the lead vocalist of our favourite Swedish rock band Hellsingland Underground, for an update from Hellquarters, the band’s own studio in Järvsö, Hellsingland, Sweden. The band is working on its sixth studio album!

Roppongi Rocks’ Stefan Nilsson checks in with former Magnum bassist Al Barrow to talk about his Magnum years, his new life in the USA and much more.

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.

The founder of Bay Area thrash metal band Death Angel discusses the five albums that shaped him.

Swedish vocalist, songwriter and producer Jake E, of Cyhra and Amaranthe fame, talks about the five albums that helped shape him as an artist.

Carl “Calle” von Schewen is a cult legend in the Swedish music industry who has been involved in the careers of many Swedish and international artists.

Douglas Blair is the lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band W.A.S.P. He is a long-serving member of the band that he originally joined in 1992.