Slash began his
solo career with a self-titled album that experimented a broad array
of styles with a plethora of varying singers. With his second
release, Slash continues to venture past standard genre borders, but
he allies himself solely with Myles Kennedy. Together, they create an
abundant collection of hard and heavy rock songs which, at the same
time, feel relaxed and natural.
#20 Beyond Hell/Above
Heaven (2010) – Volbeat
So
stop me if you've heard this one before, an album that combines
punk, roots rock & roll, rockabilly, heavy metal, death metal,
country, and '70s hard rock. Well, Volbeat's 2010 album masterfully
mixes this diverse set of genres while extending the narrative of
their 2009 release, Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood.
#19 High Visibility
(2002) – The Hellacopters
High
Visibility is a
Detroit-rock-worshiping party that makes its influences jealous. The
guitar playing is legendary, the singing is aggressive and bluesy,
and the raw '70s power of The 'Copters goes beyond the efforts of
revivalists; they're reinventing.
#18 Wasting Light (2011) – Foo Fighters
After six successful records and
selling out two nights at Wembley Stadium, how can a band keep things
fresh? Well Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl had a pretty good idea,
“I wanna do the next one in the garage. It's about making records
the way we used to f*cking make records. But lets do it with Butch
Vig so that it's f*cking huge”. Wasting Light covers every
spectrum of the Foo Fighters that fans love, it being their best
album since The Colour and the Shape
and definitely their most consistent effort containing absolutely no
filler.
#17 10,000 Days (2006) – Tool
True art takes time and consideration,
and this is exactly why Tool is so successful at creating musical
treasures. The members of Tool are nothing short of musical geniuses,
and when given four years to create an album, they created a
phenomenal 2006 release. With only three songs under six minutes,
this hard-driving band revealed intelligence, brutal honesty,
passionate emotion, and unmatched musical aptitude in modern metal.
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