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

The 1992 self-titled album by T-Ride is a wild alternative rock ride with virtuoso guitar licks, layered vocals, and electro pop rhythms

On the third album Swagger by Gun, the Scottish rockers successfully combine American influenced 80s AOR rock and 90s hard rock

What happens when former members of KISS and Motley Crue make a hard rock record in 1998? We drop the needle on the self-titled debut.

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

We revisit and discuss the overlooked, under-appreciated, forgotten, and not so forgotten albums of 1992

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

The 1993 collaboration between Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page and Whitesnake's David Coverdale is a listenable but not quite classic rock album

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

On the lone release by Hash, the band encapsulates the wild, genre-hopping world that was the late 80s and early 90s alternative music scene

Extreme's 1995 Waiting For The Punchline album is full of pointed lyrics and gritty guitar licks that mostly went undeservedly unheard

Animal Bag's self-titled 1992 debut album is a prime example of a band with one foot in '80s metal and the other in '90s alternative grunge

On their second and final album Is from 1993, The Big F craft a hard rock album in need of a firm direction

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?

After rising to fame in the 70s, the 80s were less kind to the band, who shed the makeup but 90s were a whole different story.

A Tennessee rock band signed by the legendary Clive Davis to Arista records after just thirteen gigs together.

Sandwiched between 80s metal and 90s alternative, Mind Funk occupies the same limbo space as Mother Love Bone and Saigon Kick.

Warrior Soul is hard to pin down musically, brash and loud with one foot in the sound of 80s hair metal and the other in 90s alternative.

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

Produced by Bob Rock and featuring John Corabi on vocals and guitar, the self-titled 1994 Motley Crue album divided fans and critics

Saigon Kick's 1992 album The Lizard shows off a diversity of influences that is both exciting and confusing

For episode 200, we're tackling one of the biggest, most ambitious releases of the 1990s - Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 by by Guns n' Roses

Respected and admired by musicians and a legion of dedicated fans, King's X may be the quintessential overlooked band.

On the edge of 80s glam metal and 90s alternative, Neverland's self-titled 1991 release isn't easy to pin down

Many of the hair/glam rock and metal bands of the 1980s made attempts to update their sound in the 90s but is this one successful?