Just because an album went platinum doesn’t mean it was the band’s finest hour. Sometimes, the real magic happened on the ...

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 ...

Here’s the synopsis: “It’s the summer of 1986, and teenage Erik’s dream comes true when he’s asked to run sound for his favorite Christian hair metal band, 316. A spunky preacher’s ...

Without a doubt the band will be on the road for the remainder of the year. 6.Stryper Yes who could forget Stryper, the OC's favorite (and first, if not ONLY) Christian hard rock/ '80s hair metal ...

We all have our skeletons and my big one is that, for most of my middle school to high school years, I was a hair metal fan ... Stryper Christian metal: What's the fuckin' point?

Even if the mark of being called “hair metal” or “glam metal” is one that many bands coming out in the 1980s wanted to wash away like the Aqua Net freezing up their locks, it was one most ...

southern-fried ruckus that defied the typical hair metal conventions. The Austin-based rockers wore their metal influences on their sleeves, and singer Jason McMaster led the band with an ear ...

Think hair metal and glam rock are dead? Think again. The genres are thriving, mainly in Europe, but also globally. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some modern bands that sound like 80s hair ...

"Hair metal" is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category know it. That said, the pejorative phrase serves a purpose here.