Canada Metal & Hard Rock Albums of the 1970s

Hemispheres is a 1978 RUSH album that ventures deeply into progressive rock without losing the memorable riffs and forward motion that keep its large-scale designs alive.

A Farewell to Kings keeps Rush’s hard-rock momentum while opening the music to a larger sense of story and space.

2112 joins Rush’s large-scale storytelling to the focused power of three musicians.

Caress of Steel takes Rush further away from blues-based hard rock and puts long structures and fantasy-driven storytelling at the front.

Fly by Night finds Rush gaining a new language through the arrival of Neil Peart.

Rush is the debut on which the group that would later build elaborate suites and conceptual worlds first appears as a direct, hard-rocking three-piece.