Top Hard Rock Albums

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Book Albums

Top rated Hard Rock albums featured in the 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die book.
Led Zeppelin IV album cover

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin
1971
4.37 / 5
 Are You Experienced album cover

Are You Experienced

Jimi Hendrix
1967
4.16 / 5
 Led Zeppelin II album cover

Led Zeppelin II

Led Zeppelin
1969
4.12 / 5
 Led Zeppelin album cover

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin
1969
4.11 / 5
 Led Zeppelin III album cover

Led Zeppelin III

Led Zeppelin
1970
3.96 / 5
 Electric Ladyland album cover

Electric Ladyland

Jimi Hendrix
1968
3.95 / 5
 Physical Graffiti album cover

Physical Graffiti

Led Zeppelin
1975
3.92 / 5
 Who's Next album cover

Who's Next

The Who
1971
3.91 / 5
 Back In Black album cover

Back In Black

AC/DC
1980
3.86 / 5
 Axis: Bold As Love album cover

Axis: Bold As Love

Jimi Hendrix
1967
3.8 / 5
 (Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd) album cover

(Pronounced 'Leh-'Nérd 'Skin-'Nérd)

Lynyrd Skynyrd
1973
3.76 / 5
 Appetite For Destruction album cover

Appetite For Destruction

Guns N' Roses
1987
3.74 / 5
 Boston album cover

Boston

Boston
1976
3.71 / 5
 Highway to Hell album cover

Highway to Hell

AC/DC
1979
3.66 / 5
 Van Halen album cover

Van Halen

Van Halen
1978
3.64 / 5
 Moving Pictures album cover

Moving Pictures

Rush
1981
3.59 / 5
 Machine Head album cover

Machine Head

Deep Purple
1972
3.59 / 5
 Foo Fighters album cover

Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters
1995
3.51 / 5
 1984 album cover

1984

Van Halen
1984
3.51 / 5
 Disraeli Gears album cover

Disraeli Gears

Cream
1967
3.47 / 5

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