10 Best Hard Rock Albums Of The 90s

The 90's were a time where every band was melding genres in a unique way. Some of the greatest acts of the decade were creating songs and even entire albums out of taking two seemingly disparate genres and making them co-inhabit. While some of these experiments came together clumsily, Rage Against the Machine's eclectic mix of sounds was something that flowed so naturally.

The way the rhythm section of Brad Wilk and Tim Commerford worked together was impeccable with their switches between hard rock grooves and funkier passages. On top, Tom Morello's guitar was extremely innovative with his use of feedback and effects to create an almost DJ-like guitar sound. Combine all that with Zac de la Rocha's fiery vocal delivery and the band became a bulletproof force.

Rage's music was fun to just mosh to, but the inner complexities behind the lyrics were fantastic as they tore down any walls of pretension to give sprawling indictments of government practices. Though we didn't have the band for too long, albums like this show the magic that can be made when a band pushes themselves to the creative brink to give the world a meaningful musical statement.