I thought I'd add some more rock albums, though most of these are oldies
- Badlands, especially their last album "Dusk" issued a few years after the singer's demise
- Whitesnake 's "1987" (MTV hair bands era)
- Lock Up "Something bitchin' this way comes", Tom Morello's (of RATM) first band
- MSG's (stands for Michael SchenkerGroup) their 2 first albums in the early eighties were really stunning
- Gary Moore's "Corridors of power" though it's a bit of a poppish metal album
- my personal favorite : Mother's Finest "Iron age", try to imagine Aretha Franklin screaming her lungs out in a hard rock band
If you liked some of these above you might also want to listen to the "Hughes/Thrall" album it's another unknown gem of hard rock