Switzerland Metal & Hard 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.

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

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.

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.

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.

CoreLeoni's first album of original material, and the first with Eugent Bushpepa singing. Production problems pushed the international release back a week to 20 May 2022, while the Japanese edition kept the original date of 13 May. The band reported it reaching No. 2 in Switzerland and No. 39 in Germany.

Zeal & Ardor's self-titled third album, from February 2022, laying black metal over African-American spirituals.

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The second album with Ronnie Romero singing. Alongside further early Gotthard songs it carries two new ones, "Queen of Hearts" and "Don't Get Me Wrong", and a cover of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom". AFM Records released it worldwide on 27 September 2019.

The debut album by CoreLeoni, the band Gotthard guitarist Leo Leoni started in 2017. It re-records early Gotthard songs the parent band had stopped playing, with Rainbow's Ronnie Romero singing. The international edition arrived on 23 February 2018; Ward Records had put the Japanese edition out nine days earlier, on 14 February.

Silver carries Gotthard’s warm melody, blues-tinted guitar and approachable hard-rock instinct with calm confidence.

Bang! gathers Gotthard’s thick guitar riffs, open-throated vocals and blues-warmed hard rock.

Triptykon's second album, from April 2014, and the last album cover H. R. Giger ever made.

Firebirth marks Gotthard’s new beginning with a new vocalist, built from warm melody, bluesy guitar and reliable band groove.

The debut album by Triptykon, the band Thomas Gabriel Fischer formed after Celtic Frost. Released in March 2010.

Need to Believe pairs Gotthard’s weighty hard rock with a mature gift for emotional balladry.

Domino Effect balances Steve Lee’s rich voice and Leo Leoni’s guitar with real weight and broad accessibility.

Celtic Frost's sixth album, from May 2006. It was their first new recording in sixteen years and their last studio album.

Lipservice centers thick riffs and clean rhythm around Steve Lee’s rich vocal presence.

Human Zoo refines Gotthard’s hard-rock core through thick riffs, sticky groove and Steve Lee’s powerful voice.

Homerun balances Gotthard’s thick guitar riffs and large-scale melodies with impressive ease.

Open combines thick guitar riffs and songful melody in Gotthard’s broad, arena-ready hard-rock style.

G. presents Gotthard’s melodic hard rock directly through thick riffs and Steve Lee’s open, powerful voice.

Dial Hard finds GOTTHARD in a phase that puts Steve Lee's open-throated vocal and Leo Leoni's direct guitar work at the center of Gotthard's European hard-rock identity.

Gotthard’s self-titled debut centers on Steve Lee’s open, powerful vocal and Leo Leoni’s thick guitar, delivering blues-tinted hard rock with immediate confidence.

Coroner's second album, recorded at Sky Trak Studios in Berlin in May 1988 with Guy Bidmead producing, and released by Noise on 1 August that year.

The debut by Switzerland's Coroner, released by Noise Records in June 1987. Its intricate writing places it at the beginning of technical thrash.

Celtic Frost's second album, recorded between 14 and 28 September 1985 at Casablanca studio in Berlin. The gatefold sleeve carries H. R. Giger's 1977 painting Satan I.

Celtic Frost's debut, recorded and mixed inside a single week in October 1984 at Caet Studio in West Berlin. It is the first record by the three musicians who had just dissolved Hellhammer.