{"id":1091,"date":"2025-05-15T16:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/introducing-the-200-greatest-heavy-rock-albums-ranked-149819\/"},"modified":"2025-05-15T16:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T16:52:53","slug":"introducing-the-200-greatest-heavy-rock-albums-ranked-149819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/introducing-the-200-greatest-heavy-rock-albums-ranked-149819\/","title":{"rendered":"Introducing The 200 Greatest Heavy Rock Albums\u2026Ranked!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In rock\u2019s house there are many mansions. Soft and progressive, hard, and \u2013 as we celebrate in this new magazine<\/a> \u2013 heavy.<\/p>\n

You might want to split hairs with what we\u2019ve done here. But in the run-up to their final performance this summer, we\u2019ve allowed Black Sabbath, our cover stars, to be our guide to our 200 excellent heavy selections in this publication.<\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t only mean Sabbath themselves, of course \u2013 or indeed the key records by the other foundational heavy rock groups like Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. We find room for selections by those groups whose output runs faster (like Metallica) and less bluesy (like Iron Maiden), not to mention that which touches on the psychedelic (like say, The Groundhogs or the first Scorpions album).<\/p>\n

It\u2019s about the freshness of the music. And if there\u2019s a sound which seems a perfect foundation for the 200 albums we\u2019ve ranked and reviewed here, then it\u2019s that of the first three Sabbath albums. Which is to say that of a band catching the full force of their music in the studio, maybe not spending a huge number of weeks in doing so and possibly recorded by Rodger Bain. Some of Bain\u2019s output is in here (LPs by Budgie, for example), but there\u2019s plenty that wasn\u2019t which captures some of his heavy magic. Outside the mainstream, check out Toad and Iron Claw. Within it, try Rocka Rolla the debut album by Judas Priest, a pleasant discovery while editing the magazine.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no grunge in here, though you could argue that the first Soundgarden album warrants a place. Maybe more controversially perhaps, there aren\u2019t very many \u201cheavy metal\u201d albums in here. For one thing, it\u2019s not a term that Tony Iommi agrees with, for another, the production values of the 1980s \u2013 the decade from which HM predominantly derives \u2013 didn\u2019t always allow the music to punch the weight you might hope for down the decades. There\u2019s no Stoner\/Doom, which could also be a fairly lively conversation, since Sabbath are the spiritual leaders of all that.<\/p>\n

The hope here is to use genre as a jumping off point for new listening (or re-listening) than to imprison you in a vinyl straitjacket, like the one on Quiet Riot\u2019s 1983 chart topper Metal Health, but let\u2019s not go there<\/em>. This, after all, is a series which aims to bring great records to your attention, wherever they come from. For those about to read, we salute you. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s in the shops tomorrow but you can get your copy direct from us here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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