Category: Hard Rock

Hard rock (or heavy rock) is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with pianos and keyboards.

Johan Langquist The Castle – Johan Langquist The Castle (2025)


Swedish singer JOHAN LANGQUIST – a heavy metal and doom metal pioneer with Candlemass – has created his own solo-entity in form of JOHAN LANGQUIST The Castle. This is not to be seen as a “studio project”. On the contrary a full lineup will soon take shape, with both live shows and a second album being worked on.