Sleazegrinder

This week: Dizzy Reed was plucked from The Wild by Axl Rose join Guns N' Roses in 1990, but he left behind a minor classic - an album of post-apocalyptic sex, drugs n’ death cyber-fantasy...

All hail Nig Heist, and a lost classic from the absolute bottom of the barrel

Axl fronting AC/DC? Someone, somewhere is having a massive laugh at us all...

This week: AC/DC riffs meet power-pop hooks – all hail Baltimore’s answer to Hanoi Rocks

Gratuitous nudity! Paint-the-walls-with-puke debauchery! Another buncha long-haired heavy metal creeps you mighta missed!

This week: why weren't Hellion more famous? Tough luck and haunted houses

This week: Steve Jones may have peaked with the Sex Pistols, but he came close in 1989 with the chest thumping biker metal classic Fire and Gasoline

This week: lost to the fog of rock'n'roll history, Johnny Crash's debut was a one-off gem stacked with hard-ass Angus riffs and massive choruses

This week: the band who abandoned the garage for glitter and sleaze and one glorious, adrenaline-soaked flash metal triumph

This week: the debut album from Tattooed Love Boys - delightfully dumb, big-haired, but largely forgettable

This week: the debut album from Electric Boys, and why funk metal isn't funky

A juicy major label contract, friends in high places, youth, hair, and charming Scottish accents. How the hell did Heavy Pettin' blow things so badly?

This week: the debut album from Kory Clarke's Warrior Soul, a declaration of war from America's toughest back-alleys

This week: the sensational debut album by a band whose career was thwarted by bad timing, drug busts and death

This week: the finest hour of Adam Bomb — the man, the group, the concept, whatever it was

How Carmine Appice helped invent Heavy Metal, and was still at the party two decades later

Ever wondered what Use Your Illusion might have sounded like if it was a great album? Try The 69 Eyes' Motor City Resurrection