Nine Inch Nails

Italy's foremost female rock singer, Gianna Nannini, was born in Siena on June 14, 1956, to a family that included a renowned industrialist and Siena Football Club president father and a Formula One pilot brother. Often described as the creative rebel in the family, Nannini attended the Lucca Conservatory throughout her entire adolescence, where she was trained as a pianist…

There are some that will scoff at the very idea of a comprehensive, three-disc box set overview of Adam Ant's career, dismissing him as nothing more than a new wave fad. Let 'em laugh, since Antbox proves that he, along with trusty guitarist sidekick Marco Pirroni, was a post-punk heavyweight, adept at creating claustrophobic dark angular tunes and giddy glam revivals with equal vigor…

David Bowie - Black Tie White Noise (1993) [2CD+DVD] {2003 EMI Limited Edition}
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Rock / Experimental Rock / Contemporary Pop

Black Tie White Noise was the beginning of David Bowie's return from the wilderness of post-Let's Dance, the first indication that he was regaining his creative spark. To say as much suggests that it's a bit of a lost classic, when it's rather a sporadically intriguing transitional album, finding Bowie balancing the commercial dance-rock of Let's Dance with artier inclinations from his Berlin period, all the while trying to draw on the past by working with former Spider from Mars guitarist Mick Ronson, collaborating with Let's Dance producer Nile Rodgers, and even covering inspiration Scott Walker's "Nite Flights."

The last – and definitely the best – Shotgun Messiah release, Violent New Breed is a little-known industrial metal gem. After making a name for themselves as a pop-tinged hair metal band with a talent for crafting hook-laden yet somewhat derivative music, bassist/vocalist Tim Skold and guitarist Harry Cody entered the studio sans drummer to create a follow-up to their minor breakthrough, Second Coming (which featured the rock radio hit "Heartbreak Blvd."), and created a record that sounded absolutely nothing like their earlier work – or really anything that had been released up to that time.

Judas Priest fans expecting former lead singer Rob Halford to unleash a new extreme-metal band (like his post-Priest project Fight) will be disappointed with his new outfit, Two. Although Two does inherit some of Priest's metal riffs and overall power, this is an almost completely electronic affair.