Blind Guardian's 1998 album Nightfall in Middle-Earth is a power metal epic, retelling Tolkien's The Silmarillion with symphonic intensity

On their third album Dog Eat Dog, Warrant expanded on their established hard rock sound with creative lyrical and musical departures

The debut album Picture of Health by Headstones makes us wonder why aren't there more straight-up rock bands like AC/DC or The Angels

Miljenko "Mili" Matijevic talks about Steelheart’s path to success and how it all came literally crashing down

Terry Ilous of XYZ joins us for a discussion about the waning days of the Sunset Strip hair metal scene in the early 90s

Phantom Blue's second and final album Built to Perform got lost in the early 90s alternative wave but is a hard rock record worth revisiting

We follow up our 2015 episode on bands from the 90s reuniting with more bands, their new material, and who's left from our reunion wish list

In the 1990s some artists could not contain their output to a single compact disc - we revisit the double albums of the decade

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1991

For our 500th episode of the podcast, we've convened our biggest roundtable ever to discuss Nirvana's legendary 1991 album Nevermind

The Galactic Cowboys bring plenty of riffs to their third album Machine Fish, but did they need an outside producer to help reign them in?

On the 1997 album Free Mars by Lusk, a potent mixture of psychedelia, shoegaze, and experimentation makes for a heady trip worth taking

Slide into a booth at the Rainbow as we explore sights and sounds of Los Angeles in the 1990s.

The sound of the Baby Animals debut harkens back to the straightforward AOR of Heart or pop side of The Pretenders.

Combine T. Rex grooves with analog synths, topped with radio friendly hooks and you get Imperial Drag.

With American Psycho, the Misfits returned with a more metallic sound, but perhaps with too much of a good thing

We're talking the evolution of Metal in the 1990s, from Metallica to Helmet, Ozzy to Tool, and Kyuss to Pantera

Our second "In The 90s" roundtable dives into the divisive evolution of thrash metal pioneers Metallica

The Almighty give us down-tuned guitars, double bass drum pedals and Motorhead meets Alice In Chains riffage on 1993's Powertrippin'

Mother Love Bone released their one and only album Apple 25 years ago, we revisit with Eric Peterson from the Love That Album podcast

Veteran rock bassist Chris Wyse of The Cult, Ozzy Osbourne, Ace Frehley and more talks his career, his various gigs and more

Stephen Brodsky of Cave In, Mutoid Man and other bands talks with us about learning guitar, metalcore, dealing with fan backlash and more

Travel back over twenty years in their catalog and tackle the most challenging album of their career.

The story of 10MW is long and troubled, taking over 20 years to release their only album featuring Duff McKagan.

A self-titled debut album by I Love You that shifts between Jane's Addiction-like alternative funk and Guns N' Roses riffing

There's no doubt that lead singer Myles Kennedy, like Matthew Bellamy of Muse or Jimmy Gnecco of Ours, owes a lot to Jeff Buckley