Best Comeback Rock Albums of All Time

The Top Ten

1 The Division Bell - Pink Floyd

Uplifting lyrics that touch on endless possibility, life and being young. The Endless River was created from left-over material from this album.

After Roger Waters left the band, theyt were detemined to keep making music weather Water liked it or not. They made 'A Momentary Lapse of Reason'. That album is not great and not nearly as good as anything they'd made in the 70's. It did have Learning to Fly and Sorrow which are both good songs but the album as a whole wasn't great.

7 years later, they basically locked themselves in the Brittania Row Studio or David Gilmour's houseboat/studio and just improvised. They made tons of material. David Gilmour, his wie Polly Samson, Richard Wright, Nick Laird-Clowes and Bob Ezrin together wrote lyrics. The title was picked by friend of Gilmour and author of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' Douglas Adams.

They made one of Pink Floyd's greatest albums and a perfect end to the new Pink Floyd albums.

20 years later they did return with Endless River, which was a beautiful tribute to Richard Wright who passed in 2008, but Division Bell is far superior.

2 The Endless River - Pink Floyd

This is Pink Floyds final album, and possibly one of the most underrated albums ever. Glad to see it at #1 here.

Gilmour, Wright and Mason doing what they do best.

3 Gold Cobra - Limp Bizkit

4 .5: The Gray Chapter - Slipknot

5 Surgical Steel - Carcass

6 Death Magnetic - Metallica

7 Evanescence - Evanescence

8 Dark Before Dawn - Breaking Benjamin

9 Sol Invictus - Faith No More

10 13 - Black Sabbath

The Contenders

11 American Idiot - Green Day

12 Blood of the Nations - Accept

The best to me - after 14 years of silence these metallers came back stronger than ever. It came out in 2010 and has been their first album since 1996.
I liked their new stuff better than their 80s stuff. Songs like Shades of Death, Teutonic Terror, and Pandemic, are 5/5.
By the way, many of the albums on this list aren't really comeback albums.

13 Wasting Light - Foo Fighters

14 Immortalized - Disturbed

15 The Hunting Party - Linkin Park

Has some of the artists most experimental music from great 80s to 90s metal music. Definitely something to check out.

16 Black Gives Way to Blue - Alice in Chains

After dealing with the death of a vocalist with such a distinct sound, most bands would never be able to recover. AIC rebounded and found their signature sound with the aid of a new singer who can belt out the hits along with putting his stamp on new ones.

17 The Fragile - Nine Inch Nails