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Melodic rocker Roulette launch new video track titled "The only way"

Directed and produced by Chris Rehn and Hansi Fellbrink - Boxroom Productions. Filmed, edited and graded by Chris Rehn. www. boxroom.se


The band Roulette was formed in 1985 in Sundsvall, Sweden. All the guys had been in previus bands with Hansi Fellbrink ex. Overload, Lundgren and Nesslin, Red Skies and the Nelin brothers The Kaza 5 young guys who had found each other, "clicked" and started to rehearse songs and play "live" at rock clubs and festivals around Sweden. They became one of the most popular bands in their hometown and had a couple of hits on the local radiostations. The year after they took part in the competition POP -86 where they went to the final at Hard Rock Café / Stockholm. 

In the jury was Tommy Nilsson from Easy Action and Kee Marcello from Europe! In 1987 the sign a record deal with TAB Records and released their first singel "Hearts Keep On Burning" with Tommy Nilsson on backing vocals!! The second singel was released in 1988 called "Fool for your love", and a video was made to promote that singel. In this period Roulette performed on a lot of Swedish TV-shows like "Top Gear"/Nordic Channel, "Night Life"/TV 3 and "Metropol"/SVT. In 1990, influenced by their prospective label, they changed their name to Cherry Red and won a record deal with CBS. 

They started to record their first full length album at Stockholm Recording with producer Per Blom, but the album became just a singel called "Only The Strong" and was released on CBS subsidiary label, Cupol Records. In the beginning of 2008 they were contacted by the record label AOR-FM, and they released a 17 song best-of album with ROULETTE singles/demos, called "Better Late Than Never". On the 2 June 2015 they released a new singel called "Secret Room", produced by Chris Rehn at Boxroom Studios.

Current line-Up:
Thomas Lundgren - vocals
Hansi Fellbrink - bass/vocals
Magnus Nelin - guitar/vocals
Mats Nelin - drums


 

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