Italy Metal & Hard Rock Albums

The Legend Of The Six Kings is a useful way to hear FROZEN CROWN from a different angle within the 2026 catalogue.

In The Vanishing Echoes Of Goodbye finds LABYRINTH shaping Italian power metal speed and progressive architecture into a 2025 album with a clear sense of identity.

Lacuna Coil's tenth album, released on 14 February 2025, about a generation consumed by social media, with Randy Blythe and Ash Costello as guests.

War Hearts channels FROZEN CROWN’s new-lineup momentum into direct, aggressive power metal.

Challenge the Wind brings RHAPSODY OF FIRE’s grand orchestration, racing rhythm, and heroic-story melody to the front without hesitation.

Call of the North puts FROZEN CROWN’s bright twin-guitar harmonies and relentless speed at the front of an epic power-metal charge.

Lacuna Coil's 20th-anniversary remake of Comalies, released on 14 October 2022, with all thirteen songs rearranged and the original on a second disc.

Winterbane develops Frozen Crown’s strengths—speed, twin-guitar melody and clear vocals—into a more three-dimensional third album.

Labyrinth’s ninth album places its trademark melancholy melody and bright Italian power-metal guitar work inside more varied arrangements.

Glory for Salvation expands the central pleasures of symphonic power metal on Rhapsody of Fire’s thirteenth album.

Frozen Crown’s second album joins sharp, melodic-death-inflected riffing to the lift of European power metal.

Lacuna Coil's ninth album, released on 11 October 2019, built around an idea of black souls that grew from losing people close to the band.

The Eighth Mountain reconnects Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy scale with racing power metal through a strongly narrative design.

The Fallen King presents Frozen Crown’s speed, twin-guitar drive and fantasy atmosphere in vivid form from the start.

Architecture of a God weaves progressive development and classically colored guitar into Labyrinth’s power-metal drive.

Lacuna Coil's eighth album, released on 27 May 2016: their first self-production, set in an imagined asylum and deliberately heavier than before.

Into the Legend unites Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy storytelling, orchestral grandeur and racing power metal.

The third album by Milan's Destrage, released by Metal Blade Records in March 2014 and the record they are remembered for.

Lacuna Coil's seventh studio album, recorded in Milan with producer Jay Baumgardner and released in March 2014, reached number 13 in Italy.

Dark Wings of Steel combines heavy guitar riffs, grand keyboards and orchestration, and dramatic vocals in Rhapsody of Fire’s power-metal world.

Lacuna Coil's sixth studio album, again produced by Don Gilmore, came out in January 2012 and reached number 15, their best, on the Billboard 200.

From Chaos to Eternity layers orchestra, choir, speed metal and narration to bring Rhapsody of Fire’s long-running fantasy story to a large-scale close.

Return to Heaven Denied Pt. II carries the spirit of Labyrinth’s earlier classic through ornate guitar, grand melody and detailed power-metal construction.

The Frozen Tears of Angels binds Rhapsody of Fire’s grand orchestration, fast power metal and cinematic storytelling.

Lacuna Coil's fifth studio album, released in April 2009, was their first with producer Don Gilmore and reached number 16 on the Billboard 200.

6 Days to Nowhere unifies complex arrangements, vivid guitar, and Roberto Tiranti’s strong voice.

Lacuna Coil's fourth studio album, released in 2006, reached number 28 on the Billboard 200 and closes with Depeche Mode's "Enjoy the Silence".

Triumph or Agony combines orchestra, choir, symphonic keyboards, and fast guitar to build Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy world.

Freeman by LABYRINTH: track list, album artwork and English liner notes on METAL BOOST.

Symphony of Enchanted Lands II layers fast guitar, grand orchestra, choir and narration to build a vast fantasy world in sound.

Labyrinth combines fast guitar, bright keyboards and soaring vocals to put European power-metal lift at the front.

Forgotten Tomb's first album, issued by Selbstmord Services in 2002. All five pieces were recorded and produced by one man alone.

Lacuna Coil's third album, released in September 2002, whose single "Heaven's a Lie" became their breakthrough in America.

Power of the Dragonflame uses orchestral keyboards, choirs and fast guitars to build Rhapsody of Fire’s grand fantasy universe.

Lacuna Coil's second album and their first as a six-piece, recorded with Waldemar Sorychta in late 2000 and released in January 2001.

Rain of a Thousand Flames intensifies Rhapsody of Fire’s fantasy universe through dense orchestration and choir work.

Sons of Thunder connects Labyrinth’s technical playing with accessible, singable choruses.

A five-song EP from 2000, the first with guitarist Marco Biazzi, on which Lacuna Coil first tried Italian lyrics and covered Dubstar's "Stars".

Dawn of Victory takes Rhapsody’s cinematic orchestration and fast metal to an unapologetically grand scale.

Lacuna Coil's first full-length album, recorded with Waldemar Sorychta in Germany in late 1998 and released by Century Media in February 1999.

Return to Heaven Denied combines fast guitar, vivid keyboards and soaring vocals in Labyrinth’s dramatic power-metal style.

Lacuna Coil's first record, a six-song EP produced by Waldemar Sorychta at Woodhouse Studio in Germany and released by Century Media in 1998.

Symphony of Enchanted Lands combines grand keyboards, fast guitar and heroic melody in Rhapsody of Fire’s symphonic power-metal world.

Legendary Tales is Rhapsody of Fire’s debut fusion of classical keyboard, fast guitar and fantasy storytelling.

No Limits presents Italian power metal directly through fast twin guitars, bright keyboards and open, soaring vocals.