10 Hard Rock Bands Who Made 5 Great Albums In A Row
The hard-rock bands that did the impossible... five times in a row.
Imagine being a band so good that you write not one.. not two... but five epic albums in your career? Now, imagine being so good and creative that you do all this in one undefeated run. That’s what the artists on this list are capable of.
But what makes a great hard-rock album? Well, if the bands on this list tell us anything, it’s that magic is made when musicians play with originality and the desire to create something wonderful and heavy. Some of the bands on this list were lucky and gifted with musical virtuosity, some had one heck of a point to prove and others simply worked so hard it was impossible that they not succeed.
The records on this list are creative, riff filled and full of hard-rock swagger. They’re headbanging, inspiring and epic; some full of chart smashing hits and others doused with progressive harder to grasp musical magic.
Over the past 50+ years, the bands on this list have been treating fans with their incredible consistency and brilliance, setting the kind of records and heights that are rarely smashed. Written within this list are 50 hard-rock classic records, and music wouldn’t be the same without them.
10. Megadeth
When Dave Mustaine was fired from Metallica in 1983, he vowed to form a band that was faster and heavier than ‘Tallica could ever be: the result was Megadeth.
Mustaine wanted his band to be speed metal at it’s finest and over the years he kept his competitiveness and refusal to be ignored at the core of his band’s music. The result of Mustaine’s fretboard virtuosity and nihilistic attack is a killer five album run of Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good! (1985), Peace Sells... but Who's Buying? (1986), So Far, So Good... So What! (1988), Rust in Peace (1990) and Countdown to Extinction (1992). Over a relatively short period, Megadeth wouldn’t let up in quality.
The band started off with an album so pissed off that it shook the thrash scene into a need to push everything further; once others caught up, Megadeth shifted the tables once again by going darker than ever before. So Far, So Good… So What! provided the snotty bridging point to the commercial acclaim the band would go on to achieve; and then they finished off the run with two hit filled classics.
Megadeth had a run of albums this good through sheer determination to be the gnarliest metal band in the world, and they upped the ante for every band around them.