Hard Rock Most Important Bands

The Jimi Hendrix Experience

Are you experienced?, first album
released by the band. Considered as
the best album of them. 

Rock n´ roll band formed in London on 1966. Consisted of Jimi Hendrix (lead guitar and lead vocals), Noel Redding (bass and back vocals) and Mitch Mitchell (drums). They released three studio albums, which are considered very important on the development of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. The band was characterized by Hendrix´s great ability to play the guitar, his style and charisma. Jimi Hendrix has been considered as the best guitarist ever born and one of the best artists of all time. The Jimi Hendrix Experience added important elements to the genre, such as guitar effects and a little jazz influence.

Deep Purple

  

English Hard Rock band formed in 1968. Is considered as one of the most important bands of hard rock and one of the first Heavy Metal Bands. It was conformed by of Ian Gillan (vocals), Ritchie Blackmore (lead guitar), Jon Lord (piano), Ian Paice (drums) and Roger Glover (bass). It incorporated to the genre a greater blues influence and a heavier sound.

Queen

Scene of Bohemian Rhapsody, its most
important song. 

British hard rock band formed in London on 1971. Consisted of Freddy Mercury (vocals), Brian May (guitar), Roger Taylor (drums) and John Deacon (bass). Considered as one of the most important bands of the genre due to the incorporation of a lot of different elements to the genre, such as a great rock n´ roll influence, classic music influence, and even folk influence. Many of the most famous heavy metal and hard rock bands have cited them as an important influence, and the guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen has classified Queen as the most important band of neo-classical metal. "Bohemian Rhapsody" is considered as the best hit of all times. Also, Queen mixed some elements of heavy metal and hard rock, creating its own characteristic style.

Led Zeppelin

Led Zeppelin IV, considered as
one of the most important albums
of Hard Rock.

English rock band formed in the late 1960s by Jimmy Page (lead guitar), Robert Plant (vocals), John Paul Jones (bass and sometimes keyboard) and John Bonham (drums). Considered as one of the three most important bands of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, along with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. Gave the genre a reggae-folk style mixed with a great blues influence. One of Jimi Page´s solo (Stairway to Heaven) is considered as the best solo of all times. Jimi Page is considered as one of the best guitarists of all time and John Bonham as the best drummer of all time.