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
2 Black Sabbath
3 Jimi Hendrix
4 AC/DC
5 Metallica
- 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