Loud Park gig report: Alice Cooper
With a great new album out and perhaps the best backing band ever, original shock rocker Alice Cooper took the stage at the Loud Park festival on Saturday 14th October.
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Reviews
Album review: Korrupt “Preachers and Creatures”
Korrupt combines energetic Norwegian shout-along punk with hardcore on its debut album.
Read MoreAlbum review: Ice Age “Breaking the Ice” | Gothenburg thrash metal band finally releases its debut album after three decades
It took them three decades, but thrash metal band Ice Age from Gothenburg has finally released a splendid debut album filled with fab guitar riffing and Sabrina Kihlstrand’s commanding voice.
Read MoreGig review: Serious Black brought the magic to Tokyo
European melodic metal band Serious Black finished their “Magic” tour with a great gig in Tokyo on Friday 6th October.
Read MoreAlbum review: Motörhead “Under Cöver”
Motörised rock classics delivered from beyond the grave. Long live Lemmy!
Read MoreAlbum review: CyHra “Letters To Myself” | Former Amaranthe and In Flames members are back with a terrific debut album
CyHra – a new dawn for former Amaranthe and In Flames members who return with a terrific modern and melodic metal album.
Read MoreLive report: Chaos Assault with Sigh, Mantar and Boris
Roppongi Rocks reports from the first of two nights of Chaos Assault with Sigh, Mantar and Boris.
Read MoreEP review: American Mafia “Made in New York”
American Mafia returns with “Made in New York”, a great American-sounding melodic rock EP.
Read MoreAlbum review: Cradle of Filth “Cryptoriana – The Seductiveness of Decay”
Dani Filth and his Cradle of Filth are back with a hard-hitting album full of drama as well as bombastic and fabulously twisted metal.
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Gig report: Accept at Nakano Sun Plaza | A lesson in how heavy metal is done
German-American veterans Accept give Japanese fans a lesson in classic heavy metal at a classic Tokyo venue.
Read MoreGig report: Kreator and Vader destroy Tokyo
German thrash metal veterans Kreator and Polish death metal warriors Vader returned to Tokyo for night of furious heavy metal and circle pit fun.
Read MoreAlbum review: Zornheym “Where Hatred Dwells and Darkness Reigns”
Swedish symphonic extreme metal band Zornheym, led by former Dark Funeral guitarist Zorn, has arrived on the scene with a splendid debut album full of drama.
Read MoreAlbum review: Belphegor “Totenritual”
Helmuth Lehner, Austria’s master of dark ceremonies, is back with gloriously heavy and dark extreme metal on the new Belphegor album.
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