Remember the '80s, when every rock band seemed to have big hair and a hot shot guitarist? Then there was the '90s that killed glam thanks to the rise of grunge. All good trends repeat, and the '80s ...

Not all hair metal bands’ music has aged well. However, Twisted Sister found anthemic tracks like “I Wanna Rock” and “We’re Not Gonna Take It” to be timeless, touring on and off until ...

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in the history of music. The hair spray, makeup and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

It didn’t help that, like so many hair metal bands, the big hit that catapulted them into public view was a power ballad. So despite incorporating myriad influences from funk to punk to, of course, ...

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When other Sunset Strip bands wanted to talk about drugs, they did it in the third person, as part of a cautionary tale in which they clearly did not believe (“Dr. Feelgood”); GN’R talked about it in ...

On the east coast, the hair was also high in bands like Bon Jovi, Cinderella, Kix, and Twisted Sister by the mid-’80s, marking them all “hair metal” at one point or another.

As it was for nearly all bands lumped in with hair-metal, even the genre’s biggest acts. Enuff Z’Nuff parted ways with Frigo and Foxx, brought in new members, continued releasing solid albums ...

Hair metal is a divisive subgenre, even down to the name of the style of music it’s most known as. Whatever you want to call it, we’re looking at the most underrated bands from the scene that ...

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the ’80s — ...

Good. Now read on to see our picks for the Top 15 Hair Metal Singers. READ MORE: Top 40 Glam Metal Songs. 15. Michael Sweet . Imagine Dennis DeYoung fronting a Christian glam metal band and you'll ...