VH1 is a television channel specialized in music and back in the 00's the channel presented many lists of the greatest bands or songs from a genre. One of them was the The 100 best hard rock bands. The list had many great choices but also some bands that are not very hard rock. But the bands were chosen after votes from many musicians such as Anthrax's Scott Ian, that picked Black Sabbath. The 100 best hard rock bands according to VH1 1 Led Zeppelin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSht5j3Cnh0 2 Black Sabbath https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lVdMbUx1_k 3 Jimi Hendrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PVjcIO4MT4 4 AC/DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l482T0yNkeo 5 Metallica https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384 6 Nirvana 7 Van Halen 8 The Who 9 Guns n' Roses 10 KISS 11 Aerosmith 12 Sex Pistols 13 Queen 14 Soundgarden 15 Pink Floyd 16 Cream 17 Ramones 18 Ozzy Osbourne 19 The Clash 20 Alice Cooper 21 Pearl Jam 22 Deep Purple 23 Judas Priest 24 Iron Maiden 25 Cheap Trick 26 Motörhead 27 Iggy Pop 28 Rush 29 Mötley Crüe 30 Red Hot Chili Peppers 31 Def Leppard 32 The Doors 33 Rage Against the Machine 34 Alice in Chains 35 Jane's Addiction 36 Frank Zappa 37 Yardbirds 38 MC5 39 Crazy Horse 40 Stone Temple Pilots 41 Ted Nugent 42 The Kinks 43 Nine Inch Nails 44 ZZ Top 45 Pantera 46 Scorpions 47 Rollins Band 48 Janis Joplin 49 The Smashing Pumpkins 50 Slayer 51 Thin Lizzy 52 Faith No More 53 Korn 54 Sonic Youth 55 Blue Öyster Cult 56 White Zombie 57 Heart 58 Anthrax 59 Bad Company 60 New York Dolls 61 Jethro Tull 62 Ministry 63 Boston 64 Steppenwolf 65 The Cult 66 Joan Jett 67 The Rolling Stones 68 Hüsker Dü 69 Megadeth 70 Living Colour 71 Lynyrd Skynyrd 72 Foo Fighters 73 Twisted Sister 74 Pat Benatar 75 Spınal Tap 76 Bon Jovi 77 Hole 78 Marilyn Manson 79 Ratt 80 Green Day 81 Pixies 82 Queensrÿche 83 King's X 84 UFO 85 Whitesnake 86 Foreigner 87 King Crimson 88 Tool 89 Lita Ford 90 Rainbow 91 Misfits 92 The Black Crowes 93 Lenny Kravitz 94 Yes 95 Fugazi 96 Meat Loaf 97 Primus 98 Mountain 99 Bad Brains 100 Quiet Riot
