It didn’t surprise Missy Williams to hear that as many as 300 people showed up on a Thursday night in Rhode Island to see Great White, a band that hasn’t had a hit record since the late 1980s ...

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

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 ...

And if anything, Soundgarden, Alice In Chains, they were metal bands. They were touring with Ozzy [Osbourne]. It just became defined by some writers; they pigeonholed it and called it a new sound.” He ...

Hair metal bands, then and now. By Aidin Vaziri, sfgate.com May 7, 2014. More Information. They wore big hair, tight spandex and had difficulty spelling their own names.

Megadeth: One of the most influential thrash metal bands to come out of the '80s. Megadeth are so metal that lead singer Dave Mustaine was kicked out of Metallica after he punched James Hetfield ...

Read on to see our list of 10 Underrated Hair Metal Bands That Deserved to Be Way Bigger. Even as the genre hurtled toward irrelevance, several bands eked out terrific, underappreciated music ...