The Rods

The Rods were one of America's unsung blue-collar heavy metal bands of the 1980s -- often compared to Britain's Motörhead because of their veteran three-piece lineup; their everyman, almost punk-simple image; and, of course, their brash and extremely loud music, which was invariably played on amplifiers set to 11! The band achieved little mainstream success during its career, though, and although the Rods' general compositional style hardly pushed the heavy metal genre into new terrain, at least they never sold out to glam metal like so many of their peers. Hailing from upsta...