Top Hard Rock albums

On the heels of the release of big hit single Photograph, Canadian band Nickelback deliver a strong, commercial album that sticks close to straightforward rock. All the Right Reasons is easily their most effective and fluid collection of songs yet

Album Dark Horse literarily consists of extremes, which always exist in Nickelback's creative work. Here you can find even heavier rock compositions, sentimental ballads and light joyful songs close to country in style

Judging by everything AC/DC fifteenth studio album Black Ice is going to be a sensation for a second breath is obviously open to the band the work being a real return to the past and even a better form

With their unexpectedly fast and furious Wasting Light new album, Foo Fighters demonstrate their perfect shape and loyalty to traditions

Although Mothership, 24 immortal hits, is not the first suchlike compilation of Led Zeppelin, this time the authors have managed to select the tracks from the band's best albums and show how the music changed in each period of its creative work

Three Days Grace has created a strikingly genuine and affective record One-X filled with a great variety of emotions like misery, rage, passion, loneliness, darkness and many others which is absolutely necessary to make a top level rock album

Guns N'Roses sixth album Chinese Democracy is an example of classic rock and although it contains some grains of other styles like blues, trip-hop or industrial rock all of its 14 tracks claim their right to become classic rock songs

Foo Fighters work very well with their peers on this album; and this enhances the quality of the outcome. Look for such greats as Norah Jones on both vocals and piano; Josh Homme and Joe Beebe helping out on guitar; John Paul Jones working

A good half of the songs on Leave This Town, the sophomore effort of the rockers Daughtry, has been recorded with such renowned musicians as Chad Kroeger (Nickelback), Eric Dill (The Click Five), Ben Moody (better known for his work with Evanescence)

The band has gone for a much more melodic and dark feel. Phobia is Breaking Benjamin's most musically complex, lyrically the most thought provoking and mature, it is their most ambitious album and the most complete work they have done