The Best Heavy Rock Albums

Heavy Psychedelic/Blues Rock, Hard Rock, Proto-Metal, Stoner Rock

Vanilla Fudge (1967)

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (1968)

Do you remember hearing your first heavy album? Mine was Black Sabbath's first, when I was eight years old. It scared the bejeezus out of me, and I carefully put it back where I found it at my neighbors' apt. For the next year, bits of AC/DC's Highway To Hell, Queen, Led Zeppelin and Van Halen worked their way into my brain. The first hard rock album I bought was The Game, which wasn't all that hard. Led Zeppelin IV was probably next. Heavy rock creeped into my listening habits gradually, like black mold. I always liked it, but because so many d-bags at my school claimed the music as their own, I defined myself more with punk, post-punk and indie rock for a long time.

The roots of heavy rock arguably start with Cream and Jimi Hendrix. However, the first two bands that I believe defined themselves around heaviness are Vanilla Fudge and Blue Cheer, which is why their 1967 and January 1968 debut albums are the earliest entries on this list. Heavy rock music was divisive from day one. It sort of drew a line in the sand between generations -- those who were horrified by the first sounds of feedback by The Who and The Kinks, and those who craved more. Thus began three decades of critical dismissal and outright beatings. Like their metal brethren, heavy rock bands were used to being pariahs, and embraced it. Interestingly, long lost albums are being rediscovered by a new generation. Every month there seems to be new demand for reissues from bands like Buffalo, Pentagram, Sir Lord Baltimore, Bloodrock, Stray Dog, Granicus, Leaf Hound and Jerusalem. Even formerly reviled bands like Grand Funk Railroad and Cactus are getting critically re-evaluated. A slew of new bands influenced by these bands have come up in the past 5-7 years, particularly in Sweden (see Stoner Rock Primer).

Many of the albums in this list were originally in my metal list. While watching an interview with Lemmy Kilmeister on That Metal Show, I was reminded that in pretty much every interview, he insists that his music is not metal. It's "rock 'n' roll." So out of respect for Lemmy, I figured I'd better make a whole new list. Coincidentally at the same time I also had been compelled to come up with a ballot for the "ILM Alltime Metal/Heavy Rock Albums/Tracks Poll." It's also a good way to reflect my own more recent listening habits more accurately, since my all-time list heavily favored post-punk, soul, reggae, Kosmische, art rock, indie rock, etc. I started the daunting task of adjusting it while making this list. Choosing what goes into the list involved some tricky judgements. The first being my decision to move the first five Black Sabbath albums from the metal list to this. The band is in the unique position of being the first true pioneer of metal when metal simply did not exist. Deep Purple, Uriah Heep and Budgie were also considered metal pioneers, but really don't sound much like modern metal. Which is why "proto-metal" is a useful category for a bunch of albums released between 1970 and 1975 that served as the seeds of modern metal. The first five Sabbath albums have more in common with the lumbering, bluesy hard rock of the other proto-metal bands. Of course there's doom metal, which consists of a lot of Black Sabbath acolytes, so the matter remains complicated.

In some cases, certain albums here are heavier than albums on the metal list. Compare The Stooges with almost any early NWOBHM band or glam metal. There's further discussion of elements that define metal here. There's a handful of anomalies that are here for various reaons. The Sex Pistols were no doubt a punk band. But their recording was really a heavy hard rock album. Before Funkadelic was indistinguishable from Parliament, they made some dark psychedelic rock records. Bad Brains started out as hardcore punk, but mutated into heavy rock. There's plenty of hard, loud post-punk and indie rock bands. But Killing Joke and The Jesus Lizard are noteworthy as being way heavier than their peers. With grunge, Nirvana, Soundgarden and Screaming Trees make the list, as well as the Stooges/Blue Cheer influenced EP and debut album by Mudhoney. While Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots and Alice In Chains should probably qualify, I just don't like them that much. The same goes for Bush, Creed, Filter, Foo Fighters, Incubus, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Nickelback, Staind and Taproot. Ministry is the one industrial band included due to its hard rock and metal influences, though some may count Godflesh too. I consider Godflesh pretty unique, and they certainly belong here. You may note other glaring omissions. Some because I don't like them, others, like Grand Funk Railroad, I dismissed but am willing to reconsider as soon as I get around to hearing the full albums. Feel free to make recommendations or arguments.

The Stooges - Fun House (Elektra) 70

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (WB) 70

Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power (Columbia) 73

Led Zeppelin II (Atlantic) 69

The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks (WB) 77

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me (SST) 87

Pink Fairies - Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor) 73

Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic) 71

Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Westbound) 71

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (WB) 71

Colour Haze - All (Elektrohasch) 08

Godflesh - Streetcleaner (Mosh/Earache) 89

Bad Brains - I Against I (SST) 86

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (WB) 72

Black Sabbath (WB) 70

Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For The Deaf (Interscope) 02

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone (Rise Above/Candlelight) 00

Kyuss - Blues For The Red Sun (Dali/Elektra) 92

Ufomammut - Eve (Supernatural Cat) 10

Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom (Leaf Hound) 96

Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley (Elektra) 94

Sleep - Dopesmoker (Tee Pee) 95

Funkadelic (Westbound) 69

The Stooges (Elektra) 69

Led Zeppelin I (Atlantic) 68

Sweet - Sweet Fanny Adams (RCA) 74

Graveyard - Hisingen Blues (Nuclear Blast) 11

Free (A&M/Island) 69

MC5 - Kick Out The Jams (Elektra) 69

Thin Lizzy - Black Rose: A Rock Legend (Mercury/Vertigo) 79

AC/DC - Highway To Hell (Epic) 79

UFO - Strangers In The Night (Chrysalis) 79

Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation (PolyGram) 77

Billy Squier - Don't Say No (Capitol/American Beat) 81

Colour Haze - Tempel (Elektrohasch) 06

Rush - Moving Pictures (Polygram) 81

Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You (Elektra) 70

Unida - The Great Divide (Unida) 01

Hawkwind - Hall Of the Mountain Grill (UA/One Way) 74

Rush - Signals (Polygram) 82

Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (RCA) 74

Colour Haze (Elektrohasch) 04

Colour Haze - Los Sounds de Krauts (Elektrohasch) 03

Sgt. Sunshine (Abstract/Elektrohasch) 03

Thin Lizzy - Johnny The Fox (Vertigo/PolyGram) 76

Spiritual Beggars - Ad Astra (Music For Nations) 00

Guru Guru - Känguru (Brain/Universal) 72

Led Zeppelin III (Atlantic) 70

Killing Joke - Killing Joke (EG) 80

MC5 - High Time (Rhino/Atlantic) 71

Blue Cheer - Vincebus Eruptum (Philips) 68

Queens of the Stone Age - Rated R (Interscope) 00

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow (Westbound) 70

Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge Of Getting It On (Westbound) 74

Motörhead - Ace Of Spades (Roadracer) 80

Deep Purple - In Rock (WB) 70

Van Halen (WB) 78

Heavy Metal Kids (Atlantic/Lemon) 74

Nirvana - In Utero (Geffen) 93

The Jesus Lizard - Liar (Touch & Go) 92

The Jesus Lizard - Goat (Touch & Go) 91

Queens Of the Stone Age (Loosegroove) 98

Melvins - Houdini (Atlantic) 93

Unida - Coping With The Urban Coyote (Man's Ruin) 99

Shellac - At Action Park (Touch & Go) 94

Melvins - Bullhead (Boner) 91

Circle - Prospekt (Elektroverde) 00

Monster Magnet - Spine Of God (Caroline) 91

Ufomammut - Snailking (Music Cartel/Supernatural Cat) 04

Monster Magnet - Dopes To Infinity (A&M) 95

Dinosaur Jr. - Bug (SST) 88

Free - Fire And Water (A&M/Island) 70

Ufomammut - Idolum (Supernatural Cat) 08

Baroness - Blue Record (Relapse) 09

The Mars Volta - De-Loused In The Comatorium (GSL/Universal) 03

Sgt. Sunshine - Black Hole (Elektrohasch) 07

Goatsnake - Flower Of Disease (Man's Ruin) 00

Electric Wizard - Come My Fanatics... (Music Cartel) 96

Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (Phoenix) 71

Jeff Beck - Truth (Columbia) 68

Thin Lizzy - Live And Dangerous (WB) 78

AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It (Atco) 78

Rush - Permanent Waves (Mercury) 80

Van Halen - Women And Children First (WB) 80

AC/DC - Back In Black (Epic) 80

The Jesus Lizard - Head (Touch & Go) 90

The Darkness - Permission To Land (Must Destroy) 03

The Hellacopters - High Visibility (Gearhead) 00

Elder - Dead Roots Stirring (MeteorCity) 11

Monster Magnet - Tab...25 (Glitterhouse/Caroline) 91

Turbonegro - Apocalypse Dudes (Epitaph/Burning Heart) 99

Sons Of Otis - Temple Ball (Man's Ruin) 99

Melvins - Ozma (Boner) 89

Monster Magnet - Superjudge (A&M) 93

Been Obscene - Night O' Mine (Elektrohasch) 11

At Devil Dirt (Corvus Discos) 11

Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats - Blood Lust (Killer Candy/Svart) 11

The Hellacopters - Payin' the Dues (Sub Pop) 97

Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff EP (Sub Pop) 88

Nirvana - Bleach (Sub Pop) 89

Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (A&M) 91

f/I - Paradise Out Here (Human/Lexicon Devil) 89

Melvins - Stag (Atlantic) 96

Motorpsycho - Heavy Metal Fruit (Rune Grammofon) 10

Opeth - Heritage (Roadrunner) 11

Sungrazer - Mirador (Elektrohasch) 11

Helmet - Strap It On (Amphetemine Reptile) 90

Acid Bath - Paegan Terrorism Tactics (Rotten) 96

Motorpsycho - Timothy's Monster (Stickman) 94

Tool - Ænima (Volcano) 96

Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla (RCA/Koch) 74

Torche - Meanderthal (Hydra Head) 08

Witchcraft - Firewood (Candlelight) 05

Boris - Heavy Rocks (Quattro/UK) 02

Isis - Oceanic (Ipecac) 02

Colour Haze - Ewige Blumenkraft (MonsterZero) 01

Mammoth Volume - A Single Book Of Songs (Music Cartel) 01

Terra Firma - Harms Way (SPV) 01

Spiritual Beggars - On Fire (Music For Nations) 02

Circle - Forest (Ektro/No Quarter) 04

Cowboys & Aliens - Love Sex Volume (Buzzville/Gestrichen) 02

Fatso Jetson - Toasted (Bong Load) 01

Circle - Taantumus (Bad Vugum/Ektro) 01

Circle - Sunrise (Ektro/No Quarter) 02

Circle - Tulikoira (No Quarter) 05

Clutch - Blast Tyrant (DRT) 04

Graveyard (Tee Pee) 08

Wishbone Ash - Argus (MCA) 72

Soundgarden - Down On The Upside (A&M) 96

Hawkwind - In Search Of Space (UA/One Way) 71

Boris - Pink (Southern Lord) 05

Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments (Boner/Ipecac) 87

Scorpions - Tokyo Tapes (RCA) 78

Screaming Trees - Dust (Epic) 96

AC/DC - High Voltage (Atlantic) 76

Lowrider - Ode To Io (MeteorCity) 00

Los Natas - Toba Trance (Ektro) 03

Truckfighters - Mania (Fuzzorama) 09

Jeff Beck - Beck-Ola (Epic) 69

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak (Mercury) 76

Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World (Deram) 73

Motörhead - Overkill (EMI) 79

Motörhead - Bomber (Bronze) 79

Buffalo - Volcanic Rock (Vertigo/Repertoire) 73

Queen - Sheer Heart Attack (Elektra) 74

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (Epic) 77

Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four (MCA) 73

Granicus (RCA/Free) 73

Budgie - In For The Kill! (MCA) 74

Queen II (EMI/Hollywood) 74

UFO - Phenomenon (Chrysalis/EMI) 74

Kiss (Casablanca/Mercury) 74

Primevil - Smokin' Bats At Campton's (700 West/Radioactive) 74

Black Mountain (Jagjaguwar) 06

Jesu - Conquerer (Hydra Head) 07

Guru Guru - Hinten (Brain/Spalax) 71

Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage (MCA) 71

Dead Man - Euphoria (Crusher) 08

Kvelertak (Indie Recordings) 10

Torche (Robotic Empire) 05

Melvins - Nude With Boots (Ipecac) 08

Refused - The Shape Of Punk To Come (Epitaph) 98

Melvins - Lysol (Boner) 92

Melvins - Eggnog EP (Boner) 91

The Hellacopters - Rock & Roll Is Dead (Wild Kingdom) 05

Tad - 8-Way Santa (Sub Pop) 91

Free - Tons Of Sobs (A&M/Island) 68

Sungrazer (Elektrohasch) 10

Tame Impala - Innerspeaker (Modular) 10

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come (Mercury) 70

Blind Dog - Captain Dog Rides Again (MeteorCity) 03

Numbah Ten - Reborn In 3D (Numbah Ten) 10

The Groundhogs - Thank Christ For The Bomb (UA/EMI) 70

Isis - Panopticon (Ipecac) 04

Witchcraft (Candlelight) 04

Free - Heartbreaker (A&M/Island) 73

Budgie - Never Turn Your Back On A Friend (MCA) 73

Queen (Elektra/Hollywood) 73

Jerusalem (Deram/Decca) 72

Hawkwind - Doremi Fasol Latido (UA/One Way) 72

Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing to Taste (Sire) 90

Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies (WB) 73

Heart - Little Queen (Epic) 77

Deep Purple - Machine Head (WB) 72

Sleep - Holy Mountain (Earache) 92

Helmet - Meantime (Interscope) 92

Pentagram - First Daze Here: The Vintage Collection (Relapse) 74

Soundgarden - Superunknown (A&M) 94

Buffalo - Dead Forever... (Vertigo/Repertoire) 72

Hawkwind - Space Ritual (UA/One Way) 73

Dungen - Ta Det Lugnt (Subliminal Sounds) 04

Melvins - 10 Songs EP (Volcano) 86

Queen - A Night At The Opera (Elektra) 75

Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti (Atlantic) 75

Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time (UA/One Way) 75

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (WB) 73

Dictators - Bloodbrothers (Elektra) 78

Clutch - Robot Hive/Exodus (DRT) 05

AC/DC - Powerage (Epic) 78

Dungen - Skit I Allt (Mexican Summer) 10

F/i - Blue Star (RRR/Lexicon Devil) 90

Been Obscene - The Magic Table Dance (Elektrohasch) 10

Rush - Hemispheres (Mercury) 78

Isis - Celestial (Hydra Head) 00

Ufomammut - Godlike Snake (Beard Of Stars) 00

Rose Tattoo (Alberts) 78

Budgie - Bandolier (MCA) 75

UFO - Obsession (Chrysalis/EMI) 78

Heavy Metal Kids - Anvil Chorus (Atlantic/Lemon) 75

Rush - Fly By Night (Mercury) 75

Turbonegro - Scandinavian Leather (Epitaph) 03

Kiss - Alive! (Mercury) 75

Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic (Columbia) 75

AC/DC - TNT (Albert Productions) 75

King Crimson - Red (Atlantic) 74

Boris - Akuma No Uta (Fangs Anal Satan/Southern Lord) 03

Witchcraft - The Alchemist (Rise Above) 07

The Hellacopters - By The Grace Of God (Polar Music) 02

Spiritual Beggars - Mantra III (Music For Nations) 98

Los Natas - Toba Trance II (Ektro) 04

Om - Pilgrimage (Southern Lord) 07

Causa Sui - Free Ride (Elektrohasch) 07

Mott The Hoople - Brain Capers (Atlantic) 71

UFO - Lights Out (Chrysalis/EMI) 77

Floor (No Idea) 02

Goatsnake - Goatsnake 1 (Man's Ruin) 99

Fatso Jetson - Cruel & Delicious (Rekords) 02

The Groundhogs - Split (UA/EMI) 71

Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself (Mercury/Sanctuary) 71

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death (WB) 71

Blue Cheer - Outsideinside (Philips) 68

Melvins - Gluey Porch Treatments (Boner/Ipecac) 87

King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black (Atlantic) 74

Melvins - A Senile Animal (Ipecac) 06

Colour Haze - Co2 (Homegrown/MonsterZero) 00

Sunn 0))) & Boris - Altar (Southern Lord) 06

Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop) 06

Mammatus (Holy Mountain) 06

Causa Sui - Pewt'r Sessions 1 & 2 (El Paraiso) 11

Wo Fat - Noche del Chupacabra (Nasoni) 11

Ghost - Hypnotic Underworld (Drag City) 04

Faith No More - Angel Dust (Slash) 92

Young Gods - TV Sky (Caroline) 92

Los Natas - Corsario Negro (Small Stone) 02

Down - NOLA (Elektra) 95

Los Natas - Ciudad de Brahman (Man's Ruin) 99

Them Crooked Vultures (DGC/Interscope) 09

Necromandus - Orexis Of Death (Vertigo/Rise Above) 73

The Boredoms - Vision, Creation, Newsun (WEA Japan) 01

Isis - SGNL>05 EP (Neurot) 01

Los Natas - El Hombre Montaña (Small Stone) 06

UFO - No Heavy Petting (Chrysalis/EMI) 76

Alice Cooper - Killer (WB) 71

Om - Conference Of The Birds (Holy Mountain) 06

Comets On Fire - Blue Cathedral (Sub Pop) 04

Sweet - Give Us A Wink (RCA) 76

Heart - Dreamboat Annie (Capitol) 76

Humo del Cairo - Vol. II (Estamos Felices) 11

Rush - Grace Under Pressure (Mercury) 84

Turbonegro - Ass Cobra (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 96

The Hellacopters - Supershitty To The Max (White Jazz) 96

Zeke - Death Alley (Tee Pee) 01

Screaming Trees - Sweet Oblivion (Epic) 92

Death - For the Whole World To See (Drag City) 74

Alice In Chains - Dirt (Columbia) 92

Tool - Undertow (Zoo) 93

Corrosion Of Conformity - Deliverance (Sony) 94

King Crimson - In The Court Of The Crimson King (EG) 69

Circle - Andexelt (Metomorphos) 99

Los Natas - Nuevo Orden de La Libertad (Small Stone) 09

Earth - Earth 2 (Sub Pop) 93

Electric Wizard (Rise Above) 94

Acrimony - The Acid Elephant EP (Flying/Godhead) 95

The Wildhearts - P.H.U.Q. (Lemon) 95

Kyuss - ...And The Circus Leaves Town (Elektra) 95

Bad Brains - Quickness (Caroline) 89

Mountain - Climbing! (Columbia) 70

Motörhead (Roadracer) 77

Sahg - Sahg I (Candlelight) 06

Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion (Capitol/American Beat) 82

Thin Lizzy - Fighting (Vertigo/Phonogram) 75

Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (WB) 88

UFO - Force It (Chrysalis/EMI) 75

Silverhead (MCA) 72

Nightstalker - Use (Mad Prophet) 96

Queens of the Stone Age - Era Vulgaris (Interscope) 07

Monster Magnet - Powertrip (A&M) 98

Katatonia - Night Is The New Day (Peaceville) 09

Melvins - Stoner Witch (Atlantic) 94

Ministry - The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire) 88

Jex Thoth (I Hate Records) 08

Soundgarden - Ultramega OK (SST) 88

Rainbow - Rising (Polydor) 76

Siena Root - Far From The Sun (Transubstans) 08

Made Out Of Babies - The Ruiner (The End) 08

Burning Saviours - Hundus (I Hate Records) 06

Grand Magus – Monument (Rise Above) 03

Causa Sui - Summer Sessions Vol. 1-3 (Elektrohasch) 09

Dozer - Beyond Colossal (Small Stone) 08

Abramis Brama - Nothing Changes (Transubstans) 03

Kylesa - Static Tensions (Prosthetic) 09

Ancestors - Of Sound Mind (Tee Pee) 09

Ancestors - Neptune With Fire (North Atlantic Sound) 08

Elder (MeteorCity) 09

Pyrior - Oceanus Procellarum (Away) 10

Valkyrie - Man Of Two Visions (Noble Origin) 08

The Mars Volta - Amputechture (Umvd) 06

Kylesa - Spiral Shadow (Season Of Mist) 10

Gozu - Locust Season (Small Stone) 10

Gay Witch Abortion - Maverick (Learning Curve) 09

Dead Man (Crusher) 06

Mudhoney (Sub Pop) 89

Earth - The Bees Made Honey In The Lion's Skull (Southern Lord) 08

Årabrot - Revenge (Fysisk Format) 10

Solace - 13 (Meteor City) 03

Earth - Hex: Or Printing in the Infernal Method (Southern Lord) 05

Dead Meadow - Shivering King and Others (Matador) 03

Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roooster (Elektra) 70

Wolfmother (Modular/Interscope) 06

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (Albert Productions) 76

Don Caballero - For Respect (Touch & Go) 93

Orange Goblin - The Big Black (The Music Cartel/Rise Above) 00

Demon Cleaner - The Freeflight (Molten Universe) 00

Uriah Heep - Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (Mercury) 70

Caïna - Temporary Antennae (Profound Lore) 08

Godflesh - Selfless (Earache) 94

Hawkwind (UA/One Way) 70

Motorpsycho - Little Lucid Moments (Rune Grammofon) 08

UFO - The Wild, The Willing And The Innocent (Chrysalis) 81

Comets On Fire - Avatar (Sub Pop) 06

Abramis Brama - Smakar Söndag (Transubstans) 09

Motorpsycho - Child Of The Future (Rune Grammafon) 09

Silverhead - Sixteen And Savaged (MCA) 73

Loop - A Gilded Eternity (RCA) 90

Monster Magnet EP (Glitterhouse) 90

Fu Manchu - In Search Of... (Mammoth) 96

Mr. Bungle - California (WB) 99

Colour Haze - Periscope (Elektrohasch) 99

Motorpsycho - Trust Us (Stickman) 98

Hainloose - Burden State (Elektrohasch) 06

Fatso Jetson - Stinky Little Gods (SST) 95

Melvins - The Maggot (Ipecac) 99

Boris - Smile (Southern Lord) 08

Dungen - 4 (Kemado) 08

Black Breath - Heavy Breathing (Southern Lord) 10

Cave In - Jupiter (Hydra Head) 03

Pelican - Australasia (Hydra Head) 03

Danzig (American) 88

Baroness - Red Album (Relapse) 07

Rainbow - Long Live Rock 'n' Roll (Polydor) 78

Sahg - Sahg II (Regain) 08

Cowboys & Aliens - Language Of Superstars (Apache) 05

F/i - Space Mantra (RRR/Lexicon Devil) 88

Electric Wizard - Black Masses (Rise Above) 10

Kylesa - Time Will Fuse Its Worth (Prosthetic) 06

Fatso Jetson - Archaic Volumes (Cobraside) 10

Loop - Heaven's End (Mute) 87

F/i - Why Not Now?...Alan! (RRR/Lexicon Devil) 87

The Guess Who - Live At The Paramount (Buddha) 72

Torche - Songs For Singles EP (Hydra Head) 10

Isis - In The Absence of Truth (Ipecac) 06

The Atomic Bitchwax (Tee Pee) 99

Rush - Power Windows (Mercury) 85

Deep Purple - Made In Japan (EMI) 72

Radio Moscow - Brain Cycles (Alive) 09

Motorpsycho - Black Hole/Blank Canvas (Rune Grammofon) 06

Sons Of Otis - X (Small Stone) 05

Dead Meadow - Feathers (Matador) 05

Humble Pie - Rock On (A&M) 71

Humble Pie - Smokin' (A&M) 72

Pearls & Brass - The Indian Tower (Drag City) 06

Mammatus - The Coast Explodes (Holy Mountain) 07

Gentleman's Pistols (Rise Above) 07

MC5 - Back In the U.S.A. (Rhino/Atlantic) 70

White Hills (Thrill Jockey) 10

Nebula - To The Center (Sub Pop) 99

The Fucking Champs - IV (Drag City) 00

Baroness - Second EP (Hyperrealist) 05

Slo Burn - Amusing The Amazing EP (Malicious) 96

Ufomammut - Lucifer Songs EP (Supernatural Cat) 05

Torche - In Return EP (Robotic Empire) 07

Truckfighters - Phi (Fuzzorama) 07

Isis - The Red Sea EP (Second Nature) 99

Free - Free Live! (A&M/Island) 71

Bardo Pond - Amanita (Matador) 96

Bowery Electric - Beat (Kranky) 96

The Fucking Champs - III (Frenetic) 97

Orange Goblin - Frequencies From Planet Ten (The Music Cartel/Rise Above) 97

Motorpsycho - Let Them Eat Cake (Stickman) 00

Boris - New Album (Tearbridge/Sargent House) 11

Freedom Hawk - Holding On (Small Stone) 11

Amebix - Sonic Mass (Easy Action) 11

Årabrot - Solar Anus (Fysisk Format) 11

Sleestak - The Fall Of Altrusia (Sleestak) 11

Hills - Master Sleeps (Transubstans) 11

Elvis Deluxe - Favourite State Of Mind (Harmony) 11

Circle - Infektio (Conspiracy) 11

Fucked Up - David Comes To Life (Matador) 11

Monkey3 - Beyond The Black Sky (Stickman) 11

Moon Duo - Mazes (Sacred Bones) 11

Sahara Surfers - Sonar Pilot (Sound Zero) 11

Cherry Choke – A Night In The Arms Of Venus... (Elektrohasch) 11

Highway Child (Elektrohasch) 11

Radio Moscow - The Great Escape of Leslie Magnafuzz (Alive) 11

Rival Sons - Pressure & Time (Earache) 11

The Devil's Blood - The Thousandfold Epicentre (Van/Profound Lore) 11

Blood Ceremony - Living With The Ancients (Rise Above) 11

Arenna - Beats of Olarizu (Nasoni) 11

Melvins - Sugar Daddy Live (Ipecac) 11

Siena Root - Root Jam (Transubstans) 11

Russian Circles - Empros (Sargent House) 11

The Heavy Eyes (Heavy Eyes) 11

Mars Red Sky (Emergence) 11

Lonely Kamel - Dust Devil (Napalm) 11

The Cosmic Dead - Cosmik Tape I (Who Can You Trust?) 11

DeWolff - Orchards/Lupine (REMusic) 11

1000mods - Super Van Vacation (Kozmik Artifactz) 11

Eggnogg - Moments in Vacuum (Palaver) 11

Floor - Dove EP (No Idea) 94

Motorpsycho - Demon Box (Voices Of Wonder) 93

Hermano - Dare I Say... (MeteorCity) 05

Sheavy - Celestial Hi-Fi (Music Cartel) 00

Rainbow - Bent Out Of Shape (Polydor) 84

Electric Wizard - We Live (Rise Above/The Music Cartel) 04

Orange Goblin - Thieving From The House Of God (Rise Above) 04

The Mushroom River Band - Simsalabim (Century Media) 02

Hermano - Into The Exam Room (Suburban/Regain) 07

Monster Magnet - Monolithic Baby! (SPV) 04

Sheavy - Synchronized (Rise Above) 02

Colour Haze - Seven (Selfburn) 98

Orange Goblin - Coup de Grace (Rise Above) 02

Acid King - Zoroaster (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 95

Interkosmos - Nhtepkocmoc (Clinical Archives) 09

The Atomic Bitchwax - The Local Fuzz (Tee Pee) 11

U.S. Christmas - The Valley Path (Neurot) 11

The Flying Eyes - Done So Wrong (Flying Eyes) 11

Acid Baby Jesus (Slovenly) 11

Sandrider (Good To Die) 11

Across Tundras - Sage (Neurot) 11

Count Raven - Mammons War (I Hate Records) 09

Earth - A Bureaucratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction (Sub Pop) 91

Van Halen II (WB) 79

Queen - News of the World (Elektra) 77

Loop - The World In Your Eyes (Mute) 90

Terra Firma (Music Cartel) 98

Orange Goblin - Time Travelling Blues (Music Cartel/Rise Above) 98

Boris - Amplifier Worship (Mangrove/Southern Lord) 98

Isis - Mosquito Control EP (Escape Artist) 98

Dictators - Manifest Destiny (Elektra) 77

Brotherhood Of Sleep - Dark As Light (Catch The Soap) 11

Quest For Fire - Lights From Paradise (Tee Pee) 10

Sleepy Sun - Fever (ATP) 10

Gypsyhawk - Patience And Persevereace (Creator-Destructor) 10

Humo del Cairo (MeteorCity) 10

Bloodhorse - Horizoner (Translation Loss) 09

Sons Of Otis - Songs For Worship (Music Cartel) 01

Lo-Pan - Sasquanaut (Small Stone) 09

Freedom Hawk (MeteorCity) 09

Acid King - III (Small Stone) 05

Black Pyramid (MeteorCity) 09

My Sleeping Karma - Tri (Elektrohasch) 10

Acid King - Busse Woods (Kreation) 99

Tia Carrera – Cosmic Priestess (Small Stone) 11

Samsara Blues Experiment - Long Distance Trip (World In Sound) 10

Hypnos 69 - Legacy (Elektrohasch) 10

Nebula - Charged (Sub Pop) 01

Old Silver Key - Tales Of Wanderings (Season Of Mist) 11

Melvins - The Bootlicker (Ipecac) 99

Rotor - 4 (Elektrohasch) 10

Sons Of Otis - Exiled (Small Stone) 09

Van Halen - 1984 (WB) 84

Rush - A Farewell To Kings (Mercury) 77

Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow (RCA) 74

The Hellacopters - Grande Rock (Sub Pop) 99

Cowboys & Aliens - A Trip To The Stonehenge Colony (Buzzville) 01

Denizen - Whispering Wild Stories (Denizen) 11

Lo-Pan - Salvador (Small Stone) 11

Sigiriya - Return To Earth (The Church Within) 11

Skraeckoedlan - Äppelträdet (Transubstans) 11

Envy - Recitation (Temporary Residence) 10

Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning (WB/Wounded Bird) 83

Abramis Brama - Nar Tystnaden Lagt Sig (Transubstans) 01

Sheavy - The Electric Sleep (Music Cartel) 98

Dead Meadow (Tolotta) 01

Sheavy - Republic? (Candlelight USA) 05

Black Cobra - Invernal (Southern Lord) 11

Weekend Nachos - Worthless (Relapse) 11

Suplecs - Mad Oak Redoux (Small Stone) 11

Monster Magnet - 4-Way Diablo (SPV/Steamhammer) 07

Turbonegro - Party Animals (MSI) 05

Budgie (MCA/Roadracer) 71

Rush (Mercury) 74

Iron Butterfly - Heavy (Atco/Rhino) 68

Rush - 2112 (Mercury) 76

Aerosmith - Rocks (Columbia) 76

Dozer - Through The Eyes Of Heathens (Small Stone) 05

Truckfighters - Gravity X (MeteorCity) 05

Causa Sui (Elektrohasch) 05

Spiritual Beggars - Demons (SPV/InsideOut) 05

Mother Love Bone - Apple (Polydor) 90

The Fucking Champs - VI (Drag City) 07

F/i - Blanga (Lexicon Devil) 05

Rotor - 3 (Elektrohasch) 07

Astroqueen - Into Submission (Pavement) 01

Blind Dog - The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog (MeteorCity) 01

Sons Of Otis - Spacejumbofudge (Man's Ruin) 96

Clutch - From Beale Street To Oblivion (DRT) 07

Pearls & Brass (Doppelganger) 05

Boris - Heavy Rocks (Sargent House) 11

Lüger - Concrete Light (Giradiscos) 11

Sheavy - Blue Sky Mind (Dallas Tar/Rise Above) 96

Eidetic Seeing - Drink The Sun (Chybucca) 11

Cosmonauts Day - Paths of The Restless (Cosmonauts Day) 11

Samsara Blues Experiment - Revelation & Mystery (World In Sound) 11

Danava - Hemisphere Of Shadows (Kemado) 11

Black Rainbows - Supermothafuzzalicious!! (Longfellow Deeds) 11

Ironweed - Your World Of Tomorrow (Small Stone) 11

Wishbone Ash (MCA) 70

Fu Manchu - No One Rides For Free (Cube Farm) 94

Cactus (WB/Wounded Bird) 70

Acrimony - Hymns To The Stone (Godhead/Gestrichen) 94

Katatonia - Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Peaceville/Snapper) 01

Karma To Burn - Almost Heathen (Spitfire) 01

Kyuss - Wretch (Dali/Chameleon) 91

Pearl Jam - Ten (Sony) 91

Van Halen - Fair Warning (WB) 81

Acid Bath - When The Kite String Pops (Rotten) 94

Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy (Atlantic) 73

Montrose (WB) 73

Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith (Bronze) 81

Led Zeppelin - Presence (Swan Song) 76

Horisont - Två Sidor Av Horisonten (Crusher) 09

Om - God Is Good (Drag City) 09

Dead Meadow - Old Growth (Matador) 08

Blood Ceremony (Rise Above) 08

Blue Öyster Cult - Spectres (Columbia) 77

Blue Öyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin (Columbia) 81

Deep Purple - Fireball (WB) 71

Thin Lizzy - Night Life (Deram) 74

Big Business - Here Come The Waterworks (Hydra Head) 07

Zebulon Pike - Space Is The Corpse Of Time (Aquarius) 11

Zombi - Escape Velocity (Relapse) 11

Earth - Angels Of Darkness, Demons Of Light 1 (Southern Lord) 11

Gideon Smith & The Dixie Damned - 30 Weight (Small Stone) 11

Borracho - Splitting Sky (CDBY) 11

Gordon Fights (Transubstans) 11

Thin Lizzy - Renegade (WB/Wounded Bird) 81

UFO - Mechanix (Chrysalis) 83

Ministry - Psalm 69 (Sire/WB) 92

Motörhead - Orgasmatron (Castle) 86

Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction (Geffen) 87

The Cult - Electric (Sire) 87

Burning Saviours (Meteor City) 05

Ted Nugent - Free-For-All (Epic) 76

Nadja - Radiance of Shadows (Nothingness/The End) 07

Edgar Broughton Band - Wasa Wasa (BGO) 69

Mammoth Volume (Music Cartel) 99

Brant Bjork - Jalamanta (Man's Ruin) 99

Siena Root - Different Realities (Transubstans) 09

Buffalo - Only Want You For Your Body (Vertigo/Repertoire) 74

Red Fang - Murder The Mountains (Relapse) 11

Ted Nugent (Epic) 75

Foghat - Fool For The City (Bearsville) 75

Asbestosdeath - Dejection Unclean EP (Profane Existence/Southern Lord) 90

Kyuss - Sons Of Kyuss EP (Kyuss) 90

Porcupine Tree - Fear Of A Blank Planet (Atlantic) 07

Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two (A&M) 69

Tool - Lateralus/Systema Encephale (Volcano) 01

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw (Discreet/Bizarre Planet) 74

The Guess Who - Canned Wheat (Buddha) 69

Harvey Milk - Special Wishes (Troubleman Unlimited) 06

Bloodrock (Capitol/Repertoire) 70

F/i - A Question For The Somnambulist (Submergence/Strange Attractors) 03

Krux (Mascot) 03

Detective (Wounded Bird) 77

Nebula - Atomic Ritual (Sub Pop) 03

Nails - Unsilent Death EP (Southern Lord) 10

Godflesh - Pure (Earache) 92

Mondo Generator - Cocaine Rodeo (Southern Lord) 00

Monster Magnet - Mastermind (Napalm) 10

Dungen - Tio Bitar (Kemado) 07

Spiritual Beggars - Return To Zero (InsideOut) 10

Vanilla Fudge (Atlantic/Sundazed) 67

Grand Funk Railraod - Grand Funk (Capitol) 70

Alcest - Souvenirs d'un Autre Monde (Profound Lore) 07

Grand Funk Railraod - Live Album (Capitol) 70

Queens of the Stone Age - Lullabies To Paralyze (Interscope) 05

Queen - A Day At The Races (Elektra/Hollywood) 76

Riot - Rock City (Fire Sign/Metal Blade) 77

Legs Diamond (Nightmare) 77

Yesterday And Today (London/Mondo) 76

Ted Nugent - Double Live Gonzo (Epic) 78

Sasquatch - III (Small Stone) 10

Ramon Zarate - Oyster (Freebird) 10

Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Sweet Mississippi Deal (Transubstans) 10

My Sleeping Karma - Satya (Elektrohasch) 08

Rex Smith - Where Do We Go From Here? (Sony/Wounded Bird) 77

Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever (Epic) 77

Starz (Capital/Ryko) 76

Rex Smith - Rex (Sony/Wounded Bird) 76

Fu Manchu - The Action Is Go (Mammoth) 97

Sunn 0))) - Black One (Southern Lord) 05

Moxy (Pacemaker) 76

Quartz - Deleted (Jet) 77

Danzig - Danzig III: How The Gods Kill (American) 90

Electric Wizard - Witchcult Today (CND) 07

ZZ Top - Fandango! (WB) 75

Rush - Caress Of Steel (Mercury) 75

Queen - The Game (Elektra) 80

Motörhead - Sacrifice (CMC) 95

Motörhead - Overnight Sensation (CMC) 96

Fu Manchu - King Of The Road (Mammoth) 00

Motörhead - We Are Motörhead (CMC) 00

Motörhead - Another Perfect Day (Roadrunner) 83

Kiss - Dressed To Kill (Casablanca/Mercury) 75

Made Out Of Babies - Coward (Neurot) 06

AC/DC - For Those About To Rock... (Epic) 81

UFO - No Place To Run (Chrysalis) 80

Thin Lizzy (Decca/Deram) 71

Vanilla Fudge - The Beat Goes On (Atlantic/Sundazed) 68

Angel City - Dark Room (Epic) 80

Tool - 10,000 Days (Tool JV) 06

Madder Mordem - Desiderata (Peaceville) 06

Hypnos 69 - Eclectic Measure (Elektrohasch) 06

Dozer - Call It Conspiracy (Molten Universe) 03

Hainloose - Rosula (Elektrohasch) 03

Dozer - In The Tail Of A Comet (Man's Ruin) 00

Boris - Boris At Last -Feedbacker- (Fangs Anal Satan/Conspiracy) 03

Dust (Akarma) 71

Dozer - Madre De Dios (Man's Ruin) 01

Thin Lizzy - Chinatown (WB/Metal Blade) 80

Ted Nugent - State Of Shock (Epic) 79

Sir Lord Baltimore (Mercury) 71

Gentleman’s Pistols – At Her Majesty’s Pleasure (Rise Above) 11

Underdogs - Revolution Love (Go Down) 11

Roadsaw (Small Stone) 11

Wight - Wight Weedy Wight (Kozmik Artifactz) 11

Dixie Witch - Let It Roll (Small Stone) 11

Leaf Hound - Growers Of Mushroom (Decca) 71

Øresund Space Collective - Slip Into The Vortex (Transubstans) 10

Billy Squier - The Tale Of The Tape (Capitol/American Beat) 80

Mountain - Nantucket Sleighride (Columbia) 71

Krux - Krux II (GMR) 06

Motörhead - Motörizer (Steamhammer) 08

The Besnard Lakes - Are The Roaring Night (Jagjaguwar) 10

Godflesh - Songs Of Love And Hate (Earache) 96

Melvins - The Bride Screamed Murder (Ipecac) 10

Sun Araw - On Patrol (Fun Not Fun) 10

Uriah Heep - The Magician's Birthday (Mercury) 72

Angel City - Face To Face (Epic) 80

Deep Purple - In Rock (WB) 70

Fatso Jetson - Flames For All (Man's Ruin) 99

Orange Goblin - Healing Through Fire (Mayan/Sanctuary) 07

Asva - Presences Of Absences (Important) 11

Budgie - Squawk (MCA/Roadrunner) 72

Voltax - Fugitive State of Mind (Blower) 10

The Austerity Program - Backsliders And Apostates Will Burn EP (Hydra Head) 10

Church Of Misery - Master Of Brutality (Diwphalanx) 06

Totimoshi - Milagrosa (Volcom) 08

The Fucking Champs - V (Drag City) 02

Fu Manchu - California Crossing (Mammoth) 01

Weedeater - God Luck and Good Speed (Southern Lord) 07

Burning Saviours - Nymphs & Weavers (Transubstans) 08

ZZ Top - Tres Hombres (WB) 73

Gods And Queens (Robotic Empire) 08

Black Spiders - Sons Of The North (Dark Riders) 11

The Grand Astoria - Omnipresence (TGA) 11

Thalamus - Subterfuge (Zyx) 11

Thin Lizzy - Shades Of A Blue Orphanage (Decca/Deram) 72

Dust - Hard Attack (One Way) 72

Black Tusk - Taste The Sin (Relapse) 10

Hard Stuff - Bolex Dementia (Mercury) 73

Fucked Up - The Chemistry Of Common Life (Matador) 08

U.S. Christmas - Run Thick In The Night (Neurot) 10

Alice Cooper - School's Out (WB) 72

Soundgarden - Louder Than Love (A&M) 89

Black Math Horseman - Wyllt (Tee Pee) 09

RPG - Worth The Weight (RPG) 08

Down – Over The Under (Down) 07

Danzig - Danzig II: Lucifuge (American) 90

Isis - Wavering Radiant (Ipecac) 09

Danzig - IV (American) 94

Wetnurse - Invisible City (Seventh Rule) 08

Uriah Heep - Demons And Wizards (Mercury) 72

Endless Boogie - Focus Level (No Quarter) 08

Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties (Columbia)74

Alice Cooper - Muscle Of Love (WB/Rhino) 73

Bowery Electric (Kranky) 95

Melvins - Honky (Amphetamine Reptile) 97

Fatso Jetson - Power Of Three (SST) 97

Katatonia - The Great Cold Distance (Peaceville) 06

Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes - Call Of The Wild (Discreet/Bizarre Planet) 73

The Wildhearts - Riff After Riff (Gearhead) 04

The Guess Who - American Woman (Buddha) 70

Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath (Universal/GSL) 08

Humble Pie - In Concert (King Biscuit) 73

Blue Cheer (Akarma) 69

The Groundhogs - Who Will Save The World? (UA/EMI) 72

Uriah Heep - Salisbury (Mercury/Sanctuary) 71

Cactus - One Way...Or Another (WB/Wounded Bird) 71

The Fucking Champs - V (Drag City) 02

Bellini - Snowing Sun (Monitor) 02

Monster Magnet - God Says No (A&M) 01

Rosetta - Wake/Lift (Translation Lost) 07

Godflesh - Hymns (Earache) 01

Operator Generator - Polar Fleet (Man's Ruin) 01

Dead Meadow - Howls From The Hills (Tolotta) 01

Motörhead - Hammered (Sanctuary) 02

Ché - Sounds Of Liberation (Man's Ruin) 01

The Mars Volta - Frances The Mute (Universal) 05

The Darkness - One Way Ticket To Hell...And Back (Atlantic) 05

Motörhead - Iron Fist (Castle) 82

Totimoshi - Avenger (At A Loss) 11

Motörhead - March Or Die (Sony) 92

Electric Wizard - Let Us Prey (Rise Above/The Music Cartel) 02

Harvey Milk - Life...The Best Game in Town (Hydra Head) 08

Baroness - First EP (Hyperrealist) 04

Zebulon Pike - And Blood Was Passion (Unfortunate) 04

Clutch - Pure Rock Fury (Atlantic) 01

Cave In - Perfect Pitch Black (Hydra Head) 05

Oceansize - Frames (SPV) 07

ZZ Top - Rio Grande Mud (WB) 72

Melvins - Hostile Ambient Takeover (Ipecac) 02

Oceansize - Everyone Into Position (Beggars Banquet) 05

Blue Öyster Cult - Blue Öyster Cult (Columbia) 72

Anathema - Falling Deeper (Kscope) 11

Karma To Burn - V (Napalm) 11

Rainbow - Down To Earth (Polydor) 79

Spiritual Beggars - Another Way To Shine (Music For Nations) 96

Fu Manchu - Start The Machine (DRT) 04

The Body - All The Waters Of The Earth Turn To Blood (At A Loss) 10

Blue Cheer - New! Improved! Blue Cheer (Akarma) 69

Vanilla Fudge - Near The Beginning (Atlantic/Sundazed) 69

Big Business - Head For The Shallow (Hydra Head) 05

Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune (Columbia) 76

The Dictators - D.F.F.D. (Dictators) 01

Whitesnake - Lovehunter (Geffen) 79

Kylesa - To Walk A Middle Course (Prosthetic) 05

Hackman - Enterprises (Small Stone) 08

Melvins - The Crybaby (Ipecac) 00

Greenleaf (Molten Universe) 00

AC/DC - Stiff Upper Lip (East West) 00

Jeremy Irons & The Ratgang Malibus - Bloom (Transubstans) 11

Anima Morte - The Nightmare Becomes Reality (Transubstans) 11

Mott The Hoople - Wildlife (Atlantic) 71

Ancestors - Invisible White EP (Tee Pee) 11

The Quill - Full Circle (Metalville) 11

Motörhead - The Wörld Is Yours (EMI) 11

Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Atco/Rhino) 68

Cutthroats 9 (Man's Ruin) 01

Fu Manchu - Signs Of Infinite Power (Century Media) 09

AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch (Atco) 83

Quill (Cotillion/Wounded Bird) 70

Power Of Zeus - The Gospel Acording To Zeus (Rare Earth/Get On Down) 70

The Third Power - Believe (Vanguard/Forced Exposure) 70

Mammoth Volume - Noara Dance EP (Music Cartel) 00

Spiritual Beggars (Wrong Again) 94

Turbonegro - Never Is Forever (Bitzcore) 94

Bowery Electric - Vertigo (Beggars Banquet) 97

Bullet (Hard Stuff) - The Entrance To Hell (Purple) 71

Head Over Heels (Aurora) 71

Morly Grey - The Only Truth (Starshine/Sundazed) 72

Poobah - Let Me In (Ripple) 72

Steel Mill - Jewels Of The Forest (Green Eyed God) (Rise Above) 72

Bang - Bullets: The First Four Albums 1971-73 (Capitol)

Taste (Polydor) 69

Solace - A.D (Smallstone) 10

Priestess - Prior To The Fire (Teepee) 10

Sleestak - Skylon Express (Sleestak) 10

The Company Corvette - End Of The Summers (The Company) 11

Those Dancing Days - Daydreams & Nightmares (Wichita) 11

Damnation - Second Damnation (United Artists) 70

J.D. Blackfoot - The Ultimate Prophecy (Mercury) 70

Om - Variations on a Theme (Holy Mountain) 05

Three Seasons - Life's Road (Transubstans) 11

Grifter (Ripple Music) 11

Cave In - White Silence (Hydra Head) 11

Stonewall Noise Orchestra - Vol. 1 (Transubstans) 05

Fuzzy Duck (Repertoire) 71

Kamchatka - Bury Your Roots (Ais) 11

Black Tusk - Set The Dial (Relapse) 11

Orang-Utan (Bell/Phantom) 71

Highway Robbery - For Love Or Money (RCA) 72

Clutch - Passive Restraints (Ruthless) 94

Velvet Turner Group (Family Productions) 72

AC/DC - Black Ice (Columbia) 08

ASG - Win Us Over (Volcom) 07

Kill (Fysisk Format) 11

OvO - Cor Cordium (Supernatural Cat) 11

Desert Sessions - Vol. 1: Instrumental Driving Music for Felons (Man's Ruin) 97

Desert Sessions - Vol. 2: Status, Ship's Commander Butchered (Man's Ruin) 98

Desert Sessions - Vol. 3: Set Co-Ordinates for the White Dwarf (Man's Ruin) 98

Desert Sessions - Vol. 4: Hard Walls & Little Trips (Man's Ruin) 98

Desert Sessions - Vol. 5-6: Poetry for the Masses (Man's Ruin) 99

Desert Sessions - Vol. 7-8 (Southern Lord) 01

Desert Sessions - Vol. 9 (Universal/Island) 03

The Best Heavy Bands

These are bands ranked that have at least 3 albums in the top 500. Melvins had the most ranked albums with 15, followed by Motörhead with 14, Thin Lizzy with 13, AC/DC with 12, and both Rush and UFO at 9.

The Stooges
Black Sabbath
Led Zeppelin
Colour Haze
Thin Lizzy
Circle
Funkadelic
Kyuss
Queens Of The Stone Age
The Jesus Lizard
Melvins
Ufomammut
Monster Magnet
AC/DC
Turbonegro
Motörhead
Sweet
The Hellacopters
Hawkwind
UFO
Soundgarden
Free
Boris
Queen
MC5
Rush
Electric Wizard
Wishbone Ash
Witchcraft
Motorpsycho
Budgie
Van Halen
Deep Purple
Alice Cooper
King Crimson
Buffalo
Baroness
Dinosaur Jr.
Sleep
Unida
Godflesh
Isis
Tool
Torche
Billy Squier
Kiss
Earth
Ministry
Blue Cheer
Spiritual Beggars
The Mars Volta
The Groundhogs
Los Natas
Rainbow
Abramis Brama
Truckfighters
Uriah Heep
Clutch
Nebula
Fu Manchu