HEART OF STEEL RECORDS

HEART OF STEEL RECORDS is a new independent record-label with strong emphasis on classic and traditional Heavy/Power Metal & Hard-Rock, as well as previously unreleased gems from the ‘80s, HIGH-QUALITY re-releases.
Over the years many of these albums (and demos) have achieved a Classic-status, although have been unavailable in CD format until now. Our releases are factory-pressed silverback CDs with 16-pages full colours booklets and bonus-tracks, digitally remastered, and in limited-edition, featuring extensive liner-notes, photos and memorabilia.
We are also interested in releasing new albums of selected Heavy Metal & Melodic Hard-Rock bands of today.
We are “old-school” guys and we strongly believe in the high-quality of the products, so we take good care of all of our releases, both musicallywise and graphicwise, trying to keep our customers fully satisfied. Basically, we love to match great music with fine artwork & layout-design!
HEART OF STEEL RECORDS is always searching:
- Album-Masters or Demos from the golden ‘80s years to be re-released or to be released for the first time on CD!
- NEW talented bands in the Classic-Power-Heavy Metal & Melodic Hard Rock genre.
If you are/were in such bands, please, don't hesitate to contact us and feel free to submit your demos, tapes, Cds or whatever else to our contacts.
We are also active in both departments, promotion and live-gigs in Italy. Our plan is to sign and work with as many talented bands as we can.
So… what are you waiting for??? e-mail: [email protected]
DARK LORD – “The NightTime Years: 1986 – 1988”
Release-date: April 28th, 2008
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0806
Style: ‘80s Melodic Metal reissue
Country: Italy
Fact/Sales-Points:
-CD reissue of DARK LORD full-length debut-album, originally out in 1986, with Alex De Rosso (Dokken, Headrush, Serena, Shadows Fade, Vertigo, etc) on guitar.
-Remastered from the original master-tapes, featuring an awesome full-colour 16 pages booklet with many picsm all lyrics and a quick story f the band
-Featuring 8 bonus-tracks taken from a 1987 live-concert (soundboard-recording with the sound completely restored)!!!
-Fantastic Class Melodic Metal a la Ratt & Dokken!!!
EVA – “The One”
Release-date: April 28th, 2008
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0807
Style: AOR Melodic Rock
Country: Italy
Fact/Sales-Points:
-CD reissue of EVA’s debut-album, with 1 unreleased bonus-track + a new cover-artwork + a full-colour 16 pages booklet with all lyrics and unedited pics + completely remastered sound!!!
-Great AOR Melodic Rock a la Bad English/John Waite/Journey!!!
-EVA is one of the best ever Melodic Rock bands coming out of Italy!
MARAUDER – “Face The Mirror”
Release-date: April 2008
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0805
Style: Epic/True/Power Metal
Country: Greece
Fact/Sales-Points:
- The brand new CD, called “Face The Mirror”, is the 4th album for the Epic Power Metal band MARAUDER from mighty Greece.
- “Face The Mirror” features 12 epic and majestic songs with a songwriting clearly inspired by the “classics” Manowar, Iron Maiden and Judas Priest!!!!
- The band has played dozens of gigs (last of them has been in November 2007 as opening-act for US Power-Metallers LEATHERWOLF) and it’s currently setting up some live-dates for the year 2008 in countries like Italy and Germany as well as - of course - Greece.
- Great production and awesome artwork with a full-colour 20(!!!) pages booklet created by Jobert Mello
- “Face The Mirror” will definitely please any True/Epic Metal maniac!
Band: STAMINA
Title: Permanent Damage
Release-date: December 2007
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL RECORDS
Cat. Number: HOS 0703
Style: Melodic Progressive Metal
Country: Italy
Sound samples in www.myspace.com/staminaband
Track-List:
1 - Tell The Truth (3.55) 2 - Waiting or You (4.34) 3 - What Do You Think About It? (4.12) 4 - Nothing At Al (6.05) 5 - Wild Against The Flow (4.22) 6 - It Takes A While (3.35) 7 - Seven Sins (5.25) 8 - Trapped In The Lion's Cage (4.46) 9 - Mr. Sonnie (3.29) 10 - Here To Stay (6.30)
Fact/Sales-Points :
Their awesome debut-album, called "Permanent Damage", will be released during Decembre 2007, and it features an unique and very personal sound, combining Melodic Power Metal a la Stratovarius/Sonata Arctica with Progressive Metal a la Dream Theater/Symphony X and Classic Hard Rock a la Journey/Bad English, with some Fusion parts throw into for good! First reactions on the promos' mail-out are great with a special interest on the band coming from Japan. The CD will feature as usual (for Heart Of Steel productions) a de-luxe full-colour 16 pages booklet and an astonishing cover-artwork.
Band: EVA
Title: Blue
Release-date: December 2007
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0704
Style: Melodic Hard Rock / AOR – ‘80s style
Country: Italy
Sound samples in www.myspace.com/evatheband
TRACK-LIST:
1 - Before I Say Goodbye (3.47) 2 - Why Don't You Call Me (4.48) 3 - Do You Know (Love)? (4.47) 4 - One Day Without You (5.06) 5 - Blue (3.57) 6 - My Home (4.25) 7 - Searchin (5.28) 8 - Day By Day (4.43) 9 - Dance Of Love (4.35) 10 - Wings (5.29) 11 - Ready Or Not (6.24)
Fact/Sales-Points:
- EVA is one of the most important Hard-Rock / AOR bands in Italy. They built up a solid reputation with their songs as well as a strong live-act! - Their first release “The One” was released by AOR Heaven / Point Music in 2001 - The band was later featured on the compilation “Munich’s Hardest Hits - vol. 6” (Point Music - 2004) with the track “One Day Without You” - “Blue” is the long-awaited come-back album, and it’s definetely a pure AOR/Hard-Rock gem in the vein of Journey, Bad English, Survivor and Signal !!! - Great production and fantastic artwork with a full-colour 16 pages booklet
X-HERO: “X-Hero”
Release-date: May, 19th 2007
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0701
Style: ‘80s Metal re-issue
Country: Italy
Track-List:
1. Don’t Stop The Game 2. Feeling The Fear 3. In The City Of Love 4. The War Is Up 5. Come Back 6. Come On Baby 7. Walking In The Sunset 8. The Tower Bonus-tracks: 9. Come Back (alternate US version recorded for King Klassik compilation) 10. Watching In Your Eyes (Live) 11. Feel The Fear 12. Watching In Your Eyes 13. Goin’ Down 14. Livin’ In The Shadow (taken from a 8-tracks Demo,recorded during winter 1985) Enhanced video-track: Don’t Stop The Game (video-clip)
Fact/Sales-Points:
- The full-length debut-album for this GREAT Melodic Metal-Hard Rock band from Italy, originally out during 1987/1988, has been always considered as one of most shining gems in the “New Wave Of Italian Heavy Metal”. Having reached unbelievably high-prices on e-bay, finally the album is going to be available on CD format in a fully remastered-version with 6 bonus-tracks + 1 video-track and a FANTASTIC artwork (full-colour 16 pages booklet).
A melodic yet powerful and varied sound that any Melodic Metal fan will have to love!
PANTHEON :"Empire of madness"
Release-date: May, 19th 2007
Record Label: HEART OF STEEL Records
Cat. Number: HOS 0702
Style: Neo-Classic Melodic Power Metal
Country: Sweden
Track-List:
1. Intro (Chapter One) 2. Empire Of Madness 3. Battle Pride4. Into The Void 5. Another World 6. Follow The Sign 7. FireHeart8. Life Or Death 9. Crystal Ball 10. Chain Of PainBonus-track: 11. Breaking Up Again (ACCEPT cover)
Fact/Sales-Points:
- AMAZING debut-album in the vein of Yngwie Malmsteen’s Rising Force, Sonata Arctica, Stratovarius & Scorpions!PANTHEON’s sound is all about catchy melodies, a virtuoso guitar-playing and a fantastic singer (with a vocal-style really close to SCORPIONS Klaus Meine!)... definetely a “winner”! GREAT production & AWESOME artwork made by appreciated designer Tomas Holmstrand (At Vance, Damned Nation, Dyonisus, etc.) - An album for all who love Melodic Metal at its best!!!

80's Italian Metal Legion festival 2007 01 June in Grancona
Italy.Great cult band like
THE BLACK,RAIN,X-HERO,FELINE MELINDA,LOADSTAR,DARK AGES...Free enter!!

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