Thanks to Elvis Presley and his contemporaries, rock music has had a place in the movies almost since it began. In the ’80s, AC/DC provided the entire musical backing to Stephen King’s Maximum Overdrive, big-haired rockers Fastway helped make Trick Or Treat a heavy metal-infused cult classic and the likes of Top Gun and Rocky IV would be very different without riff-heavy songs blaring in the background every five minutes.
In more recent years, franchises like Twilight and Transformers have had high-profile artists such as Paramore, Muse and Linkin Park weigh in on the records that accompanied each new chapter. However, there’s never been a better time for quality rock and metal soundtracks than the first half of the ’90s, during which a slew of records that still stand up today were released. We take a look back at the best of the bunch, all of them attached to films that remain worth checking out if they’ve passed you by so far…