10 Perfect Hard Rock Power Trios

10. Failure

For any fan of hard rock, the late '90s were a truly glorious time to be alive. Not only did you have some of the greatest alternative music ever made just a few years before, but you also had the nu metal craze, the pop punk legacy kicking into high gear, and the debuts of everyone from Tool to System of a Down. Hell, sometimes things would be flying by so fast that you'd miss some amazing stuff in the mix.

Enter the band Failure, who made some of the most off the wall rock music of the decade towards the tail end of the '90s. Though most of their sound stayed rooted in the traditional alt rock sentiments of the day, there were also some strange sounds going on in albums like Fantastic Planet that made people take notice.

You'd pick up on some grunge-y stuff here, a passing hard rock lick there, but you also have the synth line of Stuck On You, which feels closer to the space rock that would be coming out just a few years later and a voice that sounded like it fit somewhere between Thom Yorke of Radiohead and the growl of Kurt Cobain. If all you've heard is A Perfect Circle's cover of The Nurse Who Loved Me, make sure you do the deep dive on these guys as soon as possible.