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Frontiers Music Srl is thrilled to announce the signing of melodic rock powerhouse Mattador to the label’s roster.

📸: Danny Rexon

Today, SKULL REVENGE, the melodic metal collective featuring an international lineup of renowned artists from bands like Candlemass, Therion, Narnia, Jaded Heart and more, are proud to release their new lyric video for "Road Of Pain," available to view below.

Since exploding out onto the scene like a tornado back in 2017, Midnite City have taken on the world, grabbed the tired music scene by the scruff of its neck, injected passion, fun, melody, and colour back into it, and climbed to the top of the tree to be crowned the true kings of Hair Metal. The band have previously released four critically acclaimed albums with their sophomore album There Goes The Neighbourhood being listed as one the greatest albums in the history of Burrn Magazine in Japan, alongside many other accolades... Midnite City have since taken their feel good, high energy, electrifying show on tour all over the world, headlining countless tours of the UK, alongside shows all over Europe, America, Brazil, Australia, and two sold out tours of Japan, stunning an  ever-growing legion of fans around the globe, known as The Midnite Army. In November 2025, the band return with their strongest album to date, Bite The Bullet, which ticks every single box fans expect from a Midnite City album. From super poppy, catchy, and hook laden party rock, to melodic rock monsters, to arena sized power ballads, to glam metal anthems laced with attitude and a side order of glam, Bite The Bullet picks up where platinum plus selling bands left off in the late 80s, and no band on the scene currently pulls it off with more authenticity, conviction, style, or swagger, making the band stand out like a shining light in a sea of imitators. Mixed by Grammy award-winning producer Chris Laney (Europe, Crash Diet, Crazy Lixx etc), Bite The Bullet delivers a sound that is made for the biggest stadiums around the globe, bringing back everything that was so thrilling, energetic, and flamboyant about late 80s Hair Metal in one fell swoop. Midnite City delivers the goods once again with an album that's made to be cranked up to eleven and played loud! The party is just getting started...and everyone is invited. Catch the band on tour in 2025/ 2026.

The epic melodic metal force HUMAN FORTRESS proudly announce the release of their highly anticipated new studio album, “Stronghold”, due out on October 17th, 2025 via Massacre Records. The album will be available as a 2-CD Digipak and as a limited edition vinyl LP.

This announcement is quite a shocker: Singer Hannes, founding member, voice, producer, songwriter, and frontman of KISSIN' DYNAMITE, is stepping down from the microphone after nearly 20 years as singer and over 1,000 shows played around the globe. This does NOT mean that the band is breaking up or that Hannes is leaving; he will simply no longer be the singer. To mark the end of the era with him on vocals, the band is announcing “THE BIG GOODBYE” arena shows, KISSIN' DYNAMITE's biggest shows to date. All dates can be found below, with presales starting on September 19, 2025, at 12:00.

Swedish melodic rock band TREAT is thrilled to announce the release of their upcoming new studio album, titled 'The Wild Card' and set for release on November 21, 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.

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Aquilla are a promising new band from Poland, mixing elements of the NWOBHM with traditional speed metal to forge their own brand of lethal outer space metal. The first incarnation of the band was formed in Warsaw in 2015. The current line-up of Aquilla consists of Captain Paradox on vocals, Jaspar De Phaser on rhythm guitars, Kris Invader on lead guitars, Hippie Banzai on bass and Pete Slammer on drums.