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 The Pretty Reckless scored with “Going To Hell.” Paramore’s fourth full-length set, a self-titled effort, debuted at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. 

Meanwhile, “Brothers,” was The Black Keys commercial breakthrough.

Arctic Monkeys’ “AM,” which incorporated Rock and R&B elements, and received praise for its lyrics and aural diversity.

Following in the Shock-Rock footsteps of Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson, Ghost arrived with his unnamed ghouls. The band’s fourth effort, “Prequelle,” an ’18 release, marked the band’s strongest selling debut to date, landing at #3 on the Billboard 200. This comes at a time when it was getting increasingly difficult for Rock bands to reach the upper reaches of that chart.

However, acts that began before the decade began continued to produce classic albums. This includes Queens Of The Stone Age’s. “Like Clockwork” (2013), Foo Fighters’ Wasting Light (2011) and Rush’s Clockwork Angels.”