20 Most Underrated Hard Rock Songs Of All Time

Hard rock has always been a genre that is very career-driven. Whereas genres like pop and R&B tend to be about the singles, the world of heavy riffs is normally centered around the entire album experience, with the artist using 40-ish minutes to take you on a musical journey. While everyone can pick out their favorites from these records, some of the band's best material ends up falling into obscurity.

So why do we never hear about these songs? Well...there's never a clear answer, but many of the best cuts can come from the stiff competition surrounding it. Sometimes these songs have to been placed next to classics, which leads to them falling by the wayside. At the same time, the track itself may be a bit of a departure for the group, leading to fans being either conflicted or uninterested in the new direction. These tunes may even be outright bangers, but the album that they come from tends to be looked at as a failure for the band.

Regardless, these songs should be celebrated for what musical marvels they really are. They may not have gotten that much love during their time, but let's see just how kind time has been to these tracks.

The idea of supergroups in hard rock has been a little bit complicated. While it makes sense for a band comprised of rock stars to make beautiful music, things often get out of hand and become more about the sales revenue than the actual music. On the other hand, when you get a band like Velvet Revolver together, the heights were nothing short of meteoric.

On paper, the idea of pairing the glam rock stylings of Guns N Roses with the alternative feeling of Scott Weiland sounds like it could be a strange fit, but "Sucker Train Blues" showed this band to be one of the greatest supergroups of all time. Starting with Duff McKagan's bass, the song erupts with Slash's sleazy form of blues guitar as Weiland trades in his laid-back alternative voice for a hard rock howl.

The song also features some more off-the-wall experiments taken from Weiland's days in Stone Temple Pilots, like using the second segment of the verses to sing his lyrics through a bullhorn. After years of sparring sessions between the hair metal prettyboys and the rootsy grunge rockers, songs like these proved that it was OK to have the best of both worlds. It wasn't necessarily expected, but what we ended up with was better than anyone could have predicted.