10 Best Rock Albums Of 2025 (so far)
As 2025 unfolds, it’s already shaping up to be a landmark year for rock music with a slew of exceptional albums capturing the spirit of the times.
10 Best Rock Albums Of 2022
Rock music thrived in 2022, with artists delivering some of the most compelling and innovative albums in recent memory. The year saw veteran bands reaffirming their legacy, newcomers making bold debuts, and genre-blurring projects that pushed rock into exciting new territories.
10 Best Rock Albums of 2020
2020 was a year when the world seemed to pause, rock music continued to evolve, providing anthems of hope and reflection that helped define a challenging era.
Best Rock Albums 2020s (So Far)
The 2020s have already delivered some of the most exciting and dynamic rock albums in recent years, as the decade continues, this list will likely shift, as new releases further defining the sound. Metallica’s 72 Seasons was not a reinvention; it’s a reaffirmation—raw, unrelenting, and pulsing with the weight of time. The decade’s first few…
Shinedown Albums: Best to the Rest
Shinedown craft anthems that hit like a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart—music that lifts you up even when it’s dragging you through the dirt. They’ve never been the cool kids, but that’s part of their appeal.
Stone Temple Pilots Albums: Best to the Rest
Stone Temple Pilots, or STP, emerged from the alternative rock scene in the early ’90s, and became one of the most successful and polarizing bands.
Sex Pistols Break Up
Rock Music History Sex Pistols’ Johnny Rotten, in New York to visit an ailing Sid Vicious, announces the band’s break-up. In January 1978, the Sex Pistols, the punk rock band that had ignited a cultural revolution with their raw sound and confrontational attitude, came to an abrupt and dramatic end. Frontman Johnny Rotten (born John…
2020s Rock
Not unexpectantly, Three Days Grace and Shinedown continued their battle for the most #1s on the Mainstream Rock Songs chart but Rock really got a shot in the arm when Rapper turned Rocker MG Kelly scored two #1 albums (“Tickets To My Downfall” and “Mainstream Sellout”). New bands like Greta Van Fleet, Dirty Honey, Royal…
2010s Rock
Three Days Grace and Shinedown were locked in a long-term battle for supremacy of the Mainstream Rock Songs chart. Five Finger Death Punch and Disturbed also were in the mix. Legendary bands – Alice In Chains and Stone Temple Pilot – returned with new singers (William DuVall and Likin Park’s Chester Bennington, respectively). For decades…
Best Rock Albums 2010s
Prior to the 2010s women in Rock were scarce. A female fronted band was usually treated as an oddity. But Halestorm, The Pretty Reckless, Paramore, Florence + The Machine and Wolf Alice, among others, changed that. Halestorm (frontwoman Lzzy Hale pictured above) delivered “The Strange Case Of…” in ’12 featuring “Love Bites.” That same year…