10 Best Hard Rock Comeback Albums Ever
6. Californication - Red Hot Chili Peppers
Following a less than stellar reception to the album One Hot Minute in the mid-90s, the Red Hot Chili Peppers were beginning to lose their popularity, in part due to a lack of commercial sales. The group parted ways with guitarist Dave Navarro, who had been a heavy influence on One Hot Minute, and decided to bring back former member John Frusciante, who at the time was recovering from a cocaine and heroin addiction which had reportedly left him near death.
He got clean though, and the reunited line-up started to record Californication, an album which returned to the band's rock roots, rather than the 'funk-punk' sound they had developed through the 90s. On release, the album became the Chili Peppers' most successful studio effort internationally to date, with over 15 million copies sold worldwide and more than 7 million sales in the US alone, as well as producing hit singles 'Californication' and 'Otherside'.
Since then, the band have only gone from strength to strength, establishing themselves now as one of the greatest rock bands of the 21st century.