10 Rock Bands Who Never Topped Their First Album

10. The Dead Weather - Horehound (2009)

Dean Fertita, Jack Lawrence, Alison Mosshart and Jack White came together in 2009 to form supergroup The Dead Weather, bringing with them the sounds and influences of The White Stripes, The Kills, The Raconteurs and Queens of the Stone Age.

What resulted was a bold new entry in the garage rock annals, sounding comfortably at home alongside each member's original band, while offering something new that, in many ways, broke the garage rock mould. This included the melding of Mosshart and White's performances into a frequently androgynous and multi-layered vocal, and an equal prioritisation of synthesizers and guitars, departing from the mid-heavy chug that typifies a lot of the garage genre.

Ripping, experimental and expansive, Horehound hit the ground running, making it to number six on the Billboard 200 and developing a cult following for the foursome that would see them safely through two further albums. Sea Of Cowards (2010) followed hot on its heels, and took them a place higher in the charts, but the album's sound merely felt like a continuation of their previous rather than the next big step.

Five years and various other projects followed before their third album, Dodge And Burn (2015), but the group once again failed to progress their sound, with the album feeling more strained and less original, tacking closer to the garage playbook and offering fans precious little to get excited about.