Just a few short years ago, the online slots market was relatively tiny compared to today. Not only has the number of unique developers creating such games exploded during the past decade, but the industry’s largest software houses have also been expanding rapidly, too. One such company is Microgaming, who created the earliest known online slot machines between 1995 and 1998.
Microgaming took around a decade to grow into a moderately-sized business of roughly 40-50 employees, yet today the company employs over 350 people. This growth has been fueled, in-part, by the surprisingly strong resurgence of the American market. For example, one of the largest legal online casino in Pennsylvania has proven extremely popular with citizens of the United States fifth most populous state since the reintroduction of legal online gambling in 2019.
As a result of this growth, there are now dozens of new online slots released each month. Whatever your tastes may be, you are almost certain to be spoilt for choice by the number of games available with your preferred look, feel, and overall theme. Today, we’re going to look at the best music-themed slots; does your favorite band or artist already have a game named after them?
Jimi Hendrix
NetEnt have been especially prolific with their musically themed online slots, buying up the rights to many of the most popular artists from the late 20th century. Take Jimi Hendrix, for example, whose career took off massively in the 1960’s before he sadly passed away suddenly and unexpectedly in 1970. Despite only being a “mainstream” artist for around four years, Jimi was admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame which describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music”.
This slot machine has everything that a Hendrix fan will love in a slot machine, including selectable music tracks, a true 60s “Peace and Love” graphical style, and plenty of fun features and modifiers to keep gameplay interesting. As a medium-variance machine, Jimi won’t take your money away too quickly but can still pay out a big win if you catch it on the right day.
Karaoke Party
Younger players might like to give Microgaming’s “Karaoke Party” a try, although strangely there doesn’t appear to be any soundtrack on the mobile version of the game. Older reviews do describe a soundtrack, but the demo available today on the web seems to be lacking one too – a strange omission for a musically-themed game. Perhaps you are meant to sing along as you play? We can only speculate!
DJ Wild
If Rock and Roll isn’t your thing, maybe ELK Studios rave-themed DJ Wild slot will be more to your taste? Like the previous game, DJ Wild features all musically inspired symbols, but has the bonus of a user-selectable soundtrack with several fast-paced dance tracks to choose from. There’s some huge wins on the paytable here too, so DJ Wild should also appeal to fans of higher variance games as well.
Guns’ N’ Roses
Returning to NetEnt and their collection of Rock and Roll inspired slot machines now, we have Guns’ N’ Roses. Just as with Jimi Hendrix, several of the biggest Guns ‘N’ Roses tracks are included for your enjoyment here – Sweet Child o’ Mine, Paradise City, Chinese Democracy, are some of the user-selectable songs available during regular play, with many more kept back to accompany the various features and bonus rounds.
Out of all of the Rock’n’roll inspired games released over the past few years, Guns ‘N’ Roses is surely one of the best; great features trigger in all kinds of ways, and the main bonus wheel doesn’t have any terrible options to make you feel disappointed with your bonus round make this a genuine contender for the best musically themed online slot.
Danger! High Voltage
The band behind the theme tune of Big Time Gaming’s smash hit Danger! High Voltage might not be that well known, but you can guarantee the songs authors Electric Six had a whole bunch of extra searches after being featured in this game. As with many other Big Time Gaming slots, this game has some enormous payout potential, with two selectable bonus rounds each offering a different way to win huge money. Just keep an eye on your bankroll with this one – the variance is off the charts.
Motorhead
Last up, here is another legendary rock band adopted by NetEnt for online slot duties. Motorhead didn’t have as many huge songs as Hendrix or Guns ‘N’ Roses, but their biggest song The Ace of Spades is one of the most recognizable rock songs of all time. This slot has an unusual layout with 76 paylines arranged in an equally unusual way across the reels. Despite the huge number of lines, this isn’t a super high variance game making it ideal for those who enjoy playing for an entire evening. Worth a look!
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