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 metal ...

The video game has given hair bands of the '80s and '90s a reason to rock again. July 8, 2008— -- Much of the hair is gone, but the songs live on. Though often maligned in its heyday, the music ...

Legendary '80s Hair Metal Band Shares Old Concert Footage and People Are Begging for a Time Machine originally appeared on Parade. Ask nearly any Gen Xer and they'll tell you that the mid to late ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Big hair and big hooks, power chords and power ballads, leather and spandex, pointy-ass guitars and lyrics that would definitely get you canceled. Despite all this — or ...

The 1980s gave us some of the most iconic metal bands in history in the form of hair metal. Bands like Ratt, Poison, Motley Crue, Skid Row, and many more epitomized the era’s style and sound. Later ...

In the three-part docuseries I Wanna Rock: The ‘80s Metal Dream (Paramount+), musicians whose different backgrounds and entry points into the music industry put them on a collision course with the MTV ...

Break out the Aqua Net and lock up your daughters. That was the mantra throughout the 1980s, when leather-clad rockers with hair teased skyward, sex appeal gushing and guitar solos screaming, prowled ...

Lillian Axe were one of 80s hard rock’s great near misses – a band whose songs should have propelled them to hair metal-era superstardom but never did. In 2013, Classic Rock sat down with guitarist ...

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 admit.

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 deserved ...

The 1980s delivered a unique, vibrant, and often extravagant musical landscape that defined an entire generation. For those who grew up in the era, the decade’s hits usually evoke powerful feelings of ...