Genre
Hard Rock
Hard rock amplifies blues-rock into a heavier, louder form: thick riffs, driving rhythm sections, and big arena-ready choruses. Defined in the 1970s by bands like Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, and AC/DC, it bridges classic rock and the birth of heavy metal.
Hard Rock on Riffiter: 699 albums from artists including AC/DC, Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith, ranked by popularity and community ratings.
Key artists
Albums
Back in Black
AC/DC · 1980
Highway to Hell
AC/DC · 1979
Use Your Illusion I
Guns N' Roses · 1991
Rage Against The Machine - XX (20th Anniversary Special Edition)
Rage Against the Machine · 2012
Iron Man 2
AC/DC · 2010
Audioslave
Audioslave · 2002
The Razors Edge
AC/DC · 1990
Power Up
AC/DC · 2020
Rock or Bust
AC/DC · 2014
Dark Horse
Nickelback · 2008
Use Your Illusion II
Guns N' Roses · 1991
High Voltage
AC/DC · 1976
Fear Inoculum
Tool · 2019
Live (Collector's Edition)
AC/DC · 2014
Live at River Plate
AC/DC · 2012
Here and Now
Nickelback · 2011
Black Ice
AC/DC · 2008
White Pony
Deftones · 2000
Let There Be Rock
AC/DC · 1977
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AC/DC · 1976
If You Want Blood You've Got It (Live)
AC/DC · 2015
Greatest Hits
Guns N' Roses · 2004
Silver Side Up
Nickelback · 2001
Cowboys From Hell
Pantera · 1990
Crazy World
Scorpions · 1990
From the Fires
Greta Van Fleet · 2017
Lateralus
Tool · 2001
Appetite for Destruction
Guns N' Roses · 1987
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)
AC/DC · 1981
Powerage
AC/DC · 1978
Machine Head
Deep Purple · 1972
Anthem of the Peaceful Army
Greta Van Fleet · 2018
Feed the Machine
Nickelback · 2017
Comeblack
Scorpions · 2011
Chinese Democracy
Guns N' Roses · 2008
10,000 Days
Tool · 2006
All the Right Reasons
Nickelback · 2005
Stiff Upper Lip
AC/DC · 2000
Ballbreaker
AC/DC · 1995
Adrenaline
Deftones · 1995
Who Made Who
AC/DC · 1986
Ten Thousand Fists
Disturbed · 2005
Out of Exile
Audioslave · 2005
City of Evil
Avenged Sevenfold · 2005
The Long Road
Nickelback · 2003
Acoustica
Scorpions · 2001
Ænima
Tool · 1996
Best Of, Volume 1
Van Halen · 1996
Live
AC/DC · 1992
1984
Van Halen · 1983
The Sickness (10th Anniversary Edition)
Disturbed · 2010
Backtracks
AC/DC · 2009
Deftones
Deftones · 2003
Undertow
Tool · 1993
"The Spaghetti Incident?"
Guns N' Roses · 1993
No More Tears
Ozzy Osbourne · 1991
Kings of Metal
Manowar · 1988
Fly on the Wall
AC/DC · 1985
'74 Jailbreak
AC/DC · 1984
Van Halen
Van Halen · 1978
