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 ...

For some, the 1980s were about neon and new wave, yacht rock and wine coolers, wide lapels and pristine pop. For others, the ...

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 ...

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 ...