Below, see a handful of '90s hard rock acts whose careers should've been much, much bigger. Caught between grunge’s rise and hard rock’s past, these bands unfortunately slipped through the cracks.

While the 1960s and '70s were easily the golden age of rock music, the genre has endured and evolved in the decades since. 1980s rock had a moment of its own, and has continued to thrive in every era ...