ROULETTE was founded in 1985 in Sundsvall Sweden and quickly became the talk of the town. They released 3 singles between 1986-1989, and a best of album called "Better Late Than Never" in 2008. At the end of 2015, the band decides to start playing again and release the single "Secret Room" on their own lable. And now the fans are starting to catch up with the band again! Roulette is back with better songs than ever before.Thanks to this response, the band made a decision in January 2018 to record a new album with newly written songs. In October 2018, Roulette signed an contract with Black Lodge / Sound Pollution and on March 22, the band's album NOW is released!
ROULETTE was founded in 1985 in Sundsvall Sweden and quickly became the talk of the town. They released 3 singles between 1986-1989, and a best of album called "Better Late Than Never" in 2008. At the end of 2015, the band decides to start playing again and release the single "Secret Room" on their own lable. And now the fans are starting to catch up with the band again! Roulette is back with better songs than ever before.Thanks to this response, the band made a decision in January 2018 to record a new album with newly written songs. In October 2018, Roulette signed an contract with Black Lodge / Sound Pollution and on March 22, the band's album NOW is released!
Sweden brought you bands like Europe, Bathory, Heavy Load, Yngwie Malmsteen's Rising Force, Candlemass and a whole lot of Death Metal bands and in this documentary we follow the development of Swedish hard rock and heavy metal from the beginning of the 1970's, through the First Wave of Swedish Heavy Metal and the beginnings of extreme metal. This is the history of Swedish Hard Rock and Heavy Metal.
THE HISTORY OF SWEDISH HARD ROCK AND HEAVY METAL (HEAVY METAL DOCUMENTARY) 1970-1989
This documentary covers:
The birth hard rock and heavy metal in the 70's.
FVASHM / FWOSHM (traditional heavy metal of the early eighties)
The birth of doom, thrash, speed and black metal,
Pop, glam and hair metal
and the decline of Swedish heavy metal
1970-1989
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