On their third album Dog Eat Dog, Warrant expanded on their established hard rock sound with creative lyrical and musical departures

Breakneck industrial beats one minute, dreamy ambient the next, Course Of Empire's 1990 self-titled debut is a wild post-punk ride

The 1992 self-titled album by T-Ride is a wild alternative rock ride with virtuoso guitar licks, layered vocals, and electro pop rhythms

On the third album Swagger by Gun, the Scottish rockers successfully combine American influenced 80s AOR rock and 90s hard rock

What happens when former members of KISS and Motley Crue make a hard rock record in 1998? We drop the needle on the self-titled debut.

The 1993 collaboration between Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Whitesnake's David Coverdale is a listenable but not quite classic rock album

What happens when you mix Helmet's down-tuned riffs and The Cure's slinky rhythms? The 1995 sophomore album Killjoy by Shihad is the answer.

Animal Bag's self-titled 1992 debut album is a prime example of a band with one foot in '80s metal and the other in '90s alternative grunge

On their second and final album Is from 1993, The Big F craft a hard rock album in need of a firm direction

The Galactic Cowboys bring plenty of riffs to their third album Machine Fish, but did they need an outside producer to help reign them in?

In 1993 Living Colour released an album filled songs of alienation, social commentary and heavy themes that still resonate today.

Warrior Soul is hard to pin down musically, brash and loud with one foot in the sound of 80s hair metal and the other in 90s alternative.

Sect. 8 provides a mixed bag of styles, elements of King’s X progressive hard rock, Stone Temple Pilots grunge swagger, shoegaze and more

Our Sophomore Slump Revisited Rountable series kicks off with Sponge's 1996 effort Wax Ecstatic

Mother Love Bone released their one and only album Apple 25 years ago, we revisit with Eric Peterson from the Love That Album podcast