Однако не так страшна кукла, как ее размалевали. Идея создать тот самый музыкальный оксюморон удалась: совмещены два столь различных стиля, две диаметрально противоположные по энергетике манеры исполнения. И слушать это можно. А местами даже приятно и интересно.

Stranger in Us All is the eighth studio album by the reformed British hard rock band Rainbow, released in 1995. Guitarist Ritchie Blackmore put together a new version of Rainbow with little-known musicians in 1994. It was originally intended to be his solo album, but due to the label BMG pressures, the record was billed as Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow. This line-up only released the one album before Blackmore decided to pursue different musical styles and formed Blackmore's Night with his companion Candice Night. As such, this album marked his final rock and roll recordings for two decades, before putting together a reincarnation of Rainbow in 2016. The album takes its name from a line in the song "Black Masquerade".

From September to December 1999, the band rented the house Weimar in Heiligendamm on the Baltic Sea for pre-production. The sound recordings took place in May and June 2000 at Studio Miraval in southern France. Already over Christmas 2000, Rammstein released the song Links 2 3 4 on their website for download. In January 2001 the video was released, in February the single Sonne.

Attera Totus Sanctus (intended Latin translation of "Destroy All the Holy") is Dark Funeral's fourth full-length studio album. It was released on October 24, 2005, in Europe through Regain Records, and on November 29, 2005, in the United States through Candlelight Records USA. The title was chosen to convey the band's vehement anti–Right-Hand Path stance. This album also marked the end of vocalist Emperor Magus Caligula's role as a bassist for Dark Funeral, both studio and live. Attera Totus Sanctus is the first album to feature guitarist Chaq Mol and the last album to feature drummer Matte Modin.

The Ozzman Cometh — второй сборник Оззи Осборна, выпущенный в 1997 году. Первый назывался Ten Commandments, был выпущен в 1990 году и больше не издавался. Оригинальное, ограниченное издание включает два диска и содержит пять ранее не публиковавшихся треков. Версия, выпущенная в 2002 году и позднее имеют только один диск и композиция «Shot in the Dark» заменена на «Miracle Man». Это связано с судебным иском соавтора Phil Soussan.

No More Tears is the sixth studio album by British heavy metal vocalist and songwriter Ozzy Osbourne. Released on 17 September 1991, the album charted at number 17 on the UK Albums Chart and number seven on the US Billboard 200 albums chart. No More Tears spawned four songs which reached the top ten of the US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including the number two "Mama, I'm Coming Home", and it contains the Grammy-winning track "I Don't Want to Change the World". It is also one of Osbourne's two best-selling albums in North America, along with Blizzard of Ozz, having been certified quadruple platinum by the RIAA and double platinum by CRIA. It was the last Ozzy Osbourne album to feature drummer Randy Castillo and bassist Bob Daisley.

Bark at the Moon is the only Ozzy Osbourne album on which the songwriting is credited entirely to Osbourne. However, guitarist Jake E. Lee maintains that he composed a significant amount of the album’s music but was cheated out of his writing and publishing claims by Osbourne’s wife and manager Sharon. Lee claims that after he had composed the songs and completed recording his parts in the studio, he was presented with a contract which stated that he would have no claim to any writing or publishing relating to the album. The contract also stated that Lee could not mention this publicly. Lee claims he signed the contract because he had no legal representation and because Sharon threatened to fire him and have another guitarist re-record his parts if he refused.

"Wings of a Butterfly" (released as "Rip Out the Wings of a Butterfly" on the album) is a song by the Finnish band HIM. It is the second track on the 2005 album Dark Light and was released as the album's first single that year. The song reached #1 on the Finnish charts, #10 in Germany and the UK, and #87 in the U.S., making it the biggest single from Dark Light. The music video, filmed at Union Station in Los Angeles, was #1 on the Rock Countdown on MTV2 in late 2005 for five weeks until it was retired. Since its live performance premiere the song become a concert staple being played at almost every HIM show since then.

Uneasy Listening Vol. 2 released on 20 April 2007 in Germany & Ireland, the 24th/25th in Finland and the rest of Europe, and on 22 May in the United States. As with Uneasy Listening Vol. 1, the album contains rare tracks and alternate versions of previously released tracks. The album's artwork is by Finnish artist Natas Pop
The "616" and The "Hollovlad Tepes" versions are re-recordings of the demos for their respective songs.

Bastards is the eleventh album by the British band Motörhead, released in 1993 on ZYX Records, and it is their first studio album they recorded with the short-lived Lemmy, Phil Campbell, Würzel and Mikkey Dee lineup. It was also the first of four Motörhead albums that were produced by Howard Benson.

Калифорнийская команда "Laaz Rockit", основательно вспахавшая пограничную территорию между пауэр- и трэш-металлом, образовалась в 1982 году. Зачинателями проекта стали только что окончившие школу Аарон Джеллум (гитара) и Майкл Кунс (вокал), к которым последовательно присоединились Фил Кеттнер (гитара), Виктор Агнелло (ударные) и Вилли Лэнг (бас).

Conspiracy - студийный концептуальный альбом Кинга Даймонда, выпущенный Roadrunner Records в 1989 году. Является продолжением дилогии о сумасшедшей бабушке Кинга и их старом доме, первой частью которой стал альбом «Them».
Стал последним альбомом, в записи которого принимал участие ударник Микки Ди (в то время уже как сессионный музыкант). Инструментальная композиция «Cremation» использована в качестве одного из саундтреков в компьютерной игре Brütal Legend, вышедшей в 2009 году.

Stained Class is the only Judas Priest album to feature songwriting by all five members of the band, however it was at this point where Glenn Tipton became the band's primary lead guitarist; from this point forward, he would mostly share songwriting duties with Rob Halford. K.K. Downing's only standalone performances on Stained Class are "Savage" and the second solo on "Heroes End", with the rest of the album either featuring Tipton exclusively or duets between the two. Newly added drummer Les Binks earned a songwriting credit on 'Beyond The Realms Of Death' for composing the acoustic intro.

Sin After Sin is the third studio album by English heavy metal group Judas Priest, released in 1977. It is the first of eleven consecutive Judas Priest albums to be certified gold or higher by the RIAA.