Similar to my Warrant post a couple months back, this week is a band who was certainly successful but unfortunately made their best music after the 80's metal craze had taken it's final dying breaths.

Skid Row is best remembered for the ballads on their 1989 self titled debut album. Sebastian Bach became an instant pinup for teenage girls everywhere and the band got lumped in with every similar band of the era. They were always different though...

From Rachel Bolan's punk roots to Sebastian's love of Judas Priest, there was more to them than hairspray and love songs. What 2 bands did Skid Row take out on their first headlining tour in 1991? Bulletboys? Firehouse? Trixter? LA Guns? Nope. Pantera and Soundgarden. Months before Nirvana took over the rock landscape Skid Row had a grunge band opening for them.

By 1995 metal had all but disappeared, but instead of doing like so many of their contemporaries and either incorporating "alternative" into their sound or disappearing completely, Skid Row went the opposite direction and released one of the heaviest and most brutal albums of the decade. 'Subhuman Race' sold poorly but was unquestionably the peak of their career. Owing more to Slayer than Poison, released under a different name the album could've been huge.