Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Record labels we miss - MTM Music

We have to thank MTM Music for keeping melodic rock alive in the dark ages of the 90´s when grunge killed AOR, founded in 1996 by Mario Lehmann, football legend Thomas Hässler and Magnus Söderqvist. They kept raising the flag of melodic rock all the way up to 2006 with hundreds of releases and here are all the years in chronological order. (it does not include their reissues under the Classix series)
1996
CITA - Heat of emotion
Captive Heart - Home of the brave
Glen Burtnick - Retrospectacle
Robert Tepper - No rest for the wounded heart
Storming Heaven - Life in paradise
Ten - Ten
Tower City - A little bit of fire
Harlan Cage - Harlan Cage
Ten - The name of the rose






1997
Axe - Twenty years from home
Baton Rogue - Baton Rogue
Beggars and Thieves - Look what you create
Danger Danger - Four the hard way
Ten - The Robe
Fake ID - Dreaming Ezekiel
Mark Spiro - Devotion
Public Domain - Radio nights
Ransom - Trouble in paradise
Stun Leer - Once
Sahara Snow - Sahara Snow
St Clair - St Clair
Stone Soup - Spooge
Think Out Loud - Shelf life
The Key - The world is watching






1998
Big Bad Wolf - Big Bad Wolf
Dare - Calm before the storm
David Carl Band - Cant slow down
Fiore - Body electric
Unruly Child - Waiting for the sun
Fiore - Today till tomorrow
Garbo Talks - Garbo Talks
Harlan Cage - Double medication tuesday
Jimmy Lawrence - The world is round
Zeno - Listen to the light
Mystic Healer - Mystic Healer
Von Groove - Chameleon
RTZ - Lost
Steelhouse Lane - Metallic blue
Sunshine Jive - Sunshine Jive
Bad Habit - Adult orientation
Tower City - All or nothing
Von Groove - Test of faith





1999
ACT - Todays report
Anyday Now - Millenium
Euphoria - At the speed of light
Beggars and Thieves - The Grey Album
Fergie Frederiksen - Equilibrium
Reingold - Universe
Guild of Ages - Vox dominatas
Harlan Cage - Forbidden colours
Jaded Heart - IV
Jesse´s Powertrip - Not so innocent
Steelhouse Lane - Slaves of the new world
Joe Lynn Turner - Hurry up and wait
Mark Spiro - The stuff that dreams are made of
Metropolis - The power of the night
Michael Morales - That´s the way
Restless - Alone in the dark





2000
101 South - 101 South
Alfonzetti - Ready
Axe - The crown
Brian McDonald - Wind it up
Von Groove - Driving off the edge of the world
Dogface - Unleashed
Doug Howard - Last man standing
House of Shakira - III
Joe Lynn Turner - Holy man
Kharma - Wonderland
Raine - Peace
Shameless - Queen 4 a day
Storyteller - Corridor of windows





2001
ACT - Imaginary friends
Carl Dixon - Into the future
Elements of Friction - Elements of Friction
Guild of Ages - Citadel
Joe Lynn Turner - Slam
King Kobra - Hollywood trash
Radioactive - Ceremony of innocence
Shylock - Pyronized
Snakes in Paradise - Yesterday Today
Taraxacum - Spirit of freedom
Wicked Sensation - Reflected





2002
Affair - No substitute
Alfonzetti - Machine
Dogface - Dogface
Dominoe - No silence No lambs
Eternal Flame - King of the king
Hughes Turner Project - HTP
Jaded Heart - The journey will never end
Loud and Clear - Disc-connected
Rondinelli - Our cross our sins
Silence - Utopia
Snakes in Paradise - Dangerous love
Street Talk - Restoration
Token - Tomorrow land
Winter Parade - Midnight paradise





2003
Biloxi - Right the music
Crystal Blue - Detour
Doc Holliday - Good time music
Faro - Dawn of forever
Hughes Turner Project - 2
Firefly - Automatic
XYZ - Letter to god
Joe Lynn Turner - JLT
Mikael Erlandsson - The gift
Taraxacum - Rainmaker
Tim Feehan - Tracks I forgot about
Radioactive - Yeah
Say it - Louder
Shiva - Desert dreams
SIN - Somewhere into nowhere
Zar - Hard to beat
TNT - Give me a sign






2004
Brian Howe – Touch
707 – The bridge
Crossfade – White on blue
Danny Danzi – Danziland
Silver – Addiction
Edge of Forever – Feeding the fire
Heartplay – Where dead ends meet
Human Temple – Insomnia
Kick Axe – IV
Street Talk – Destination
Pulse – Worlds apart
Safe Haven – Safe Haven
Wicked Sensation – Exceptional
Shortino/Northrup – Afterlife
Shylock – Welcome to the illusion
Token – Punch






2005
Broke N Blue – The waiting
Swedish Erotica – Too daze gone
Darren Smith Band – Keep the spirit alive
Brunorock – Interaction
Edge of Forever – Let the demon rocknroll
Seven Wishes – Destination alive
Greenhouze – Greenhouze
Jay Miles – 9 Hours
Martie Peters Group – MPG
Zeno – Zenology 2
Nightvision – Nightvision
Shy – Sunset and vine
Northern Light – Northern Light
Novak – Forever Endevour
Tony Martin – Scream
Radioactive – Taken
Return – Return
TNT – All the way to the sun
Silver – Gold






2006
AOR – L.A Attraction
Deacon Street – II
Faro – Angelost
Fatal Force – Fatal Force
Vengeance – Back in the ring
Fate – V
Main Attraction – Keep on coming back
Rain – Stronger
Zeno – Runway to the gods
Relapse – Into a former state
Erol Sora – Demented honour
Street Talk – V
Warrant – Born again
Norway – Rising up from the ashes

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