Melodic Rock Albums

The fourth studio album and the second with Eugent Bushpepa. Reigning Phoenix Music issues it worldwide on 11 September 2026, the physical edition a double CD carrying the previous year's live album Live at Hallenstadion Zurich as its bonus disc. Ward Records releases the Japanese edition as GQCS-91785~6.

A ten-song independent hard-rock statement that turns recovery, major-band experience and renewed creative freedom into Erik Grönwall’s first original solo album in sixteen years.

Come This Madness is a useful way to hear EUROPE from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

More Stereo Crush is a useful way to hear GOTTHARD from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

Shout finds HARDLINE shaping classic melodic hard rock and AOR-polished vocal drama into a 2026 album with a clear sense of identity.

II is a useful way to hear ICONIC from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

The Swedish band's first live album, drawing on Kids In A Ghost Town and Teenage Rebel, recorded at Gothenburg Film Studios for Napalm Records.

Unbridled is Pride of Lions' eighth studio album, released by Frontiers Music on 10 July 2026. Jim Peterik produced it and Larry Millas mixed it; the Japanese edition followed on 22 July through Marquee Avalon.

TMG's third album: six songs, including the title track with Ado, a Beatles cover and “DOOM”, the theme of the film Yatsuhakamura.

A recording of the band's 3 July 2025 support slot for Judas Priest at the Hallenstadion in Zurich — nine songs, around forty minutes, in front of what the band puts at seven thousand people. It appeared on 19 December 2025 as a digital-only release.

Thrill Of The Bite finds CRAZY LIXX shaping eighties glam-metal sparkle and a tight modern hard-rock production into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Wonderland finds CROWNE shaping polished Scandinavian melodic hard rock and arena-sized scale into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

A second covers collection that rebuilds songs by Judas Priest, Mötley Crüe, Journey, Helloween, Heart and others through range, dynamics and hard-rock physicality.

The third Eriksplanations collection turns Erik Grönwall’s YouTube interpretations into a twelve-song tour through metal, classic rock, pop balladry and Swedish tradition.

Brotherhood finds FM shaping the class of British AOR and the supple drive of melodic hard rock into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Stand And Deliver finds GIANT shaping American hard-rock groove and AOR-polished melody into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Beyond Tomorrow finds GINEVRA shaping melodic-metal uplift and polished songcraft related to AOR and hard rock into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Stereo Crush finds GOTTHARD shaping sturdy Swiss hard-rock groove and the approachable songcraft of melodic rock into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Welcome To The Future, H.E.A.T's eighth album, pushes the band's melodic rock forward with arena-sized choruses and modern drive.

Chasing Euphoria is a useful way to hear HAREM SCAREM from a different angle within the 2025 catalogue.

Heart Of A Lion, PERFECT PLAN's fourth album, puts powerful vocals and polished choruses up front, adding keyboards to its AOR-leaning melodic rock.

The Wild Card by TREAT: track list, Spotify player, music videos and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Apex finds W.E.T. shaping melodic rock that combines AOR smoothness, hard-rock push and Scandinavian clarity into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

A Japan-only compilation closing the band’s fortieth year. The standard edition holds the sixteen songs a Japanese fan vote chose, about an hour and twenty-one minutes.

Arriving in BON JOVI’s fortieth-anniversary year, Forever brings the band’s open-hearted spirit and life-affirming outlook to the front.

The advance song from Forever, issued as a CD single in Japan alone. The disc carries the radio edit.

Two Shots at Glory is an anniversary-minded release that looks back over CRAZY LIXX’s path while showing that the band still has forward momentum.

Megalomanium II pushes ECLIPSE’s talent for immediately memorable choruses and hard-edged guitar riffs to the front with very little hesitation.

Their fourteenth studio album, released in the fortieth year since the band formed. The Japanese pressing adds an acoustic version for twelve tracks.

Ten reconnects MR. BIG’s high-level musicianship with the strength of melodies anyone can carry away.

Teenage Rebel lets NESTOR’s love of ’80s melodic rock shine through a modern, full-bodied sound.

The thirteenth Praying Mantis studio album, released on 19 April 2024 by Frontiers and, the same day in Japan, by Marquee Incorporated. It marks the band's fiftieth year; the Japanese edition adds an alternate version of the title track for twelve songs.

Against the Winds delivers REVOLUTION SAINTS’ classic melodic-hard-rock approach with direct heat.

Restless Fight brings SUNSTORM’s polished AOR sensibility together with the strength of melodic hard rock.

TMG's second album, twenty years after the first: Tak Matsumoto, Eric Martin and Jack Blades with Matt Sorum on drums, and guest turns from BABYMETAL and LiSA.

CoreLeoni's first live album, drawn from the Rock Generation Tour of 2022 — the first tour with Eugent Bushpepa — and specifically the show in Spiez, Switzerland on 25 March 2022. Metalville Records released it on 27 October 2023.

Operation Phoenix brings together CROWNE’s polished AOR and melodic-rock instincts with the forward charge of power metal.

Megalomanium packs the kind of rock songs ECLIPSE does best: short, sharp and instantly memorable.

The first Eriksplanations album documents the YouTube cover work that grew during recovery through eight songs associated with Dio, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, Iron Maiden, KISS and more.

Face Your Fears places Harry Hess’s warm, soaring voice at the center of a carefully shaped AOR and melodic-rock record.