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.

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 ...

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 ...

By almost any conceivable metric, Guns N' Roses were categorically not a hair metal band. But here's the thing: Their biggest hit is a tender, uptempo ballad with a sugary-sweet chorus and a ...

On the flip side, you'll find some bands and albums on here that were only tangentially related to the hair metal scene, which we nevertheless chose to include either because they had a massive ...