Our picks for the Heaviest Song by 11 Big Hair Metal Bands proves that the genre, which relied so heavily on simple pop sensibilities, packed a harder punch than its detractors were willing to ...

Read on to see hair metal's five best bassists. It's not easy contending with two guitar wizards at once, but Juan Croucier ...

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

But all of the artists on this list did share some common DNA, including big hair, tight pants and ... Guns N' Roses were categorically not a hair metal band. But here's the thing: Their biggest ...

Hopefully these nods to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment and will pave the way for similar inductions in the future.

Despite being one of the best debuts of the 1980s, any band getting that big that quick was bound to have consequences ...

One does not have to be a big fan of the Crüe to appreciate the effect they had on music in the late 1980s. The difference between them and other hair metal bands, like Poison, is that Mötley ...

“We just had an exciting release of an original hair metal song – it’s the first big peek at the movie for ... fall of 80’s hard rock/hair metal band, Boy Elroy. “We’re super excited ...