Play’n GO’s Rock Music Slot Collection

When someone begins to discuss rock/metal-themed slots, NetEnt’s NetEnt Rocks collection usually first comes to mind, featuring spinners utilizing Guns N’ Roses, Jimi Hendrix, and Motorhead as their themes. While this batch of games might have gotten loads of marketing and prime placement in online casinos, Play’n GO has a far more robust and impressive library of band-inspired titles, and below, we will tell you all about the ones we know. Note that we will not list ones that have not gotten based on actual bands or the House of Doom games. That is so because the latter have been inspired by a song from Swedish band Candlemass, not the band itself. So, let us get to it.

Twisted Sister

Famous for their hits I Wanna Rock, We’re Not Gonna Take It, and slapstick music videos, Twisted Sister gets categorized as a heavy metal band, though we would say they are more rock-based. Hailing from Ho-Ho-Kus, New Jersey, this Dee Sinder-fronted ensemble also gets regarded as a glam metal band on account of their heavy use of makeup. They achieved mainstream success with Stay Hungry, their third album, which they never managed to match, sales and chart-wise. The band broke up in 1988, reunited in the late 1990s, and went on their farewell tour in 2016, only to come back in 2023.

In Play’n GO’s slot of the same name, Twisted Sister entered the reel-spinning arena with a game that primarily leans on their I Wanna Rock video, and same as it, it also features actor Mark Metcalf. I Wanna Rock plays in the background of the gaming action in this cluster-pay cascading spinner, implementing a 6×6 grid, medium variance, an RTP of 94.2%, and a max win of x4,500. Twister Sister has a Dad Goes Angry mode, free spins, a Band Feature, and two wilds. It is a fun romp that pays adequate tribute to Dee Sinder and his cohorts.

Motley Crue

Formed in 1981 in California, originally by drummer Tommy Lee, bassist Nikki Sixx, and vocalist Greg Leon, Motley Crue is a legendary American hard rock band. Though Greg Leon was the initial singer, he was quickly replaced by Michael White and then Vince Neil. The latter is the vocalist most synonymous with this multi-platinum band, whose Dr. Feelgood album reached the top of the Billboard 200 chart in 1989.

In this spinner released in December 2022, Play’n GO opted for a cartoony representation that gets spiced up by Wild Side Re-Spins, Live Wire, Girls-Girls-Girls, and a free spins bonus feature. The max bet here goes up to $100, and the top win of this medium variance 5×4 slot with twenty paylines stands at x5,000. You get Motely Crue music and video clips in this game, with the base gameplay setting being a street in front of a club and the bonus round leading you inside the musical venue.

ZZ Top Roadside Riches

Roadside Riches is a ZZ Top-inspired high-variance reel-spinning game with 1,025 betways. It also has a max exposure of x40,000 on a $100 maximum bet. It has Legs Wilds that cover entire reels, gimmie ones that carry x2 or x3 multipliers, and distinct bonus rounds for each. We would call this a Buffalo mechanic title, unleashed in 2021, featuring a ZZ Top-powered soundtrack.

For those who have lived under a rock, ZZ Top is a Houston southern blues rock band that consisted of drummer Frank Beard, bassist Dusty Hill, and guitarist Billy Gibbons. The trio released fifteen albums and sold over fifty million records around the globe, becoming the band with the longest unchanged lineup in modern music history.

Sabaton

While most readers have likely at least heard of the three first listed bands, that is unlikely to be the case with Sabaton, a Swedish heavy metal band from the city of Falun. Sabaton was formed at the tail end of 1999, and they are famous for incorporating war-based lyrical themes.

Labeled as power metal by critics, Sabaton’s Play’n GO slot is a high-variance one with a max win of x5,000 your bet. It is an entertaining game where you can land mega symbols, mystery ones, and wild tokens, and you get treated to a Chained Reels feature and a Battalion Free Spins bonus round.

Saxon

Saxon is another heavy metal band that not everyone will know. The Barnsley heavy metal band began performing in 1975, and they had two top-five albums in the UK, ranking as one of the more successful 1980s European metal acts.

The gameplay here is nothing to write home about. Saxon vocalist Biff Byford gets prominently featured in this slot with stacked wilds, multipliers, and a free spins mode that can yield up to fifteen on-the-house reel rotations.

Def Leppard Hysteria

On the topic of English rock/metal bands, enter Def Leppard, which appeared on the scene a year after Saxon. Play’n GO has chosen to create a game using Leppard’s most pop-oriented album – Hysteria, which came out in 1987 and topped the US, UK, Canadian, and Australian charts. It sold over twenty-five million copies globally and featured six hits, of which Pour Some Sugar on Me has likely best stood the test of time.

Know that this gaming product is another cluster-pay cascading game from Play’n GO. It has multiple cool bonus features, a wagering range starting at $0.1 and ending at $100, medium variance, and a top reward of x10,000. It lacks a bit of personality. Yet, we would still call it a decent addition to this provider’s musical slot collection.

Alice Cooper and the Tome of Madness

Alice Cooper is a man who likely needs no intro, as he had a career that spanned sixty years and gets credited for bringing macabre to rock via his unique vaudeville style.

In the Tome of Madness, we see Alice chained up next to a 5×5 symbol layout in this cluster-pay slot with a bonus round that allows you to choose from four modes. These are Insane Asylum, The Dungeon, The Temptation Room, and the Chamber of Horrors. The top prize of this high variance slot is x3,000 on a maximum wager of $100.

KISS Reels of Rock

KISS has a few reel spinners to their name. That should not shock anyone, as Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley, and Peter Criss have built a reputation as a group that has managed to superbly monetize by licensing their likeness and hawking products that feature the KISS brand.

In Reels of Rock, we see the quartet responsible for Love Gun, Detroit Rock City, and I Was Made For Lovin’ You, in a painterly cartoony style, jamming up on a stage with Detroit Rock City playing. You get treated to multiple bonus features here, of which the one we most like is the Lock and Load one, where 2 two reels synch with identical symbols at random, with wilds receiving x2 multiplier upgrades. KISS Reels of Rock is a high variance spinner with a max win of x50,000, a game-high wager of $100, and a novel 2-3-4-4-3-2 grid layout with 576 betways by default.

Annihilator

Are you a fan of thrash metal? If you are, then you probably know all about Annihilator, as this Canadian band, considered among trash’s second wave, forms Canada’s Big Four, along with Razor, Voivod, and Sacrifice. America’s Big Metal Four are Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, and Metallica.

The Annihilator game offers a max exposure of x5,000, high variance, an RTP of 94.2%, ten paylines, and wager sizes from $0.1 to $100. It has expanding symbols, re-spins, free spins, and a Fun Palace Pick’em bonus game. In our eyes, this spinner has a bit of an old-school vibe, reminding us of titles from the mid-2010, with its soundtrack adding much of its appeal, as it is most fitting for reel-spinning fun.

Halloween

From Canada, we move to Germany, and Hamburg-born Halloween, another power metal collective formed in 1984, has released sixteen studio albums and four live ones. Its last one hit the Web in 2021, named Helloween. Halloween has been named among the German Big Four, with Running Wild, Rage, and Grave Digger, and the general Power Metal Big Four, where it gets joined by Sabaton, DragonForce, and Blind Guardian.

Halloween has a soft spot in our hearts because we remember looking at LPs and CDs with this band’s logo in shops back in the day. Their Play’n GO spinner is pretty noteworthy, as it has seven Free Spins features, expanding symbols, multipliers, and more.

Lordi Reel Monsters

Lordi is a Finnish metal group that is best remembered for the Hard Rock Hallelujah song, which won the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, marking Finland’s first win in the competition.

Lordi Reel Monsters delivers more than we expected, as this super colorful product implements multipliers, cascades, the cluster-pay system, multiple free spins modes, additional/random wilds, symbol swaps, token collections, a 7×7 grid, and more. It is worth checking out for sure.

Dio Killing the Dragon

Without question, Ronnie James Dio, formerly of Black Sabbath, has gone down in metal history as one of the genre’s top-five vocalists. He is top-ten in our book. Ronnie died in 2010 at the age of 67 from stomach cancer, and he performed up to 2009 before his illness rendered him unable to do so.

Killing The Dragon is a branded volatile spinner from Play’n GO, whose gameplay consists of a 5×3 grid with two hundred and forty-three paylines. It has a Lock Up Wolves feature with wilds that stick, three modifiers, and the highest award possible of x15,000 on a top bet of $100. We think the sentimental music and the Fallen Angel feature by Play’n GO were nice touches here, appropriately honoring Ronnie.

Black Mamba

We are not going to lie to you. We have never heard of Black Mamba, which is a four-piece Italian hard-rock ensemble we know nothing about. Nonetheless, the 5×5 high-variance cluster-pay game from Play’n GO did not seem too bad at first sight. It has an RTP that can go up to 96.5%. Yet, it can also drop to 84.5%.

The stars of the show here are the Charge Meter, the Concert feature, and the Free Spins round. In general, this was a much more engaging title than we assumed it would be before playing it. So, that was a pleasant surprise.

Demon

Now, we know all about Demon and its vocalist, Dave Hill. Though somewhat of a niche new metal collective from England, Staffordshire to be exact, Demon has its fans, and Play’n GO has looked to further the band’s legend with an iteration of Legacy of Egypt. You get a Wild Mask feature here, free spins, and a Hell Spins bonus in a game that we would rate as fair.

Testament

Established in 1983 as Legacy, Testament is a California trash band that helped form the Bay Area metal scene in the 1980s and featured among its Big Six. It also gets mentioned among America’s big metal eight.

Their Play’n GO-inspired creation is another high-variance online slot with an RTP that sits at 94.25 at default, a standard 5×3 position setup, two hundred and forty-three betways, and a maximum reward of x20,000 on a game-high wager of $100. There are four bonus features here. They are the Cold Embrace, Dark Roots of Earth, Throne of Thorns, and a free spins mode. You also get reel set changing and sticky wins in Testament, which is worth testing.

HammerFall

We end our round-up of Play’n GO rock/metal reel-spinning products with one utilizing Swedish power metal Gothenburg band – HammerFall. The five-person group has been active since 1993, and they have set loose twelve studio albums so far. But their Play’n GO game looks more like medieval fantasy fare than a tribute to this metal collective. It is a 7×7 cluster-pay spinner with a high variance and a max win of x30,000, with loads of cool bonus features. Given its presentation, we are unsure if we should have even listed this game.

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