Like any genre, there are many tiers of hair metal bands. Unlike Mötley Crüe and Guns N’ Roses, many hard rock bands from the 1980s disappeared into obscurity after MTV fame.

Plenty of bands not associated with 80s glam metal have (or had) great hair. From The Beatles to Oasis, Led Zeppelin to Soundgarden, rock and roll mops have graced many album covers, magazines, TV ...

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 ...

That wasn't always the case, though. Hair metal — and '80s rock as a whole — was obsessed with power ballads and these melodramatic love songs often rocketed to the top of the charts.

The 10 Best Hair Metal Albums By Non-Hair Metal Bands Some bands did not fit the hair metal mold, but played along convincingly enough for at least one album.

The band’s 1989 debut album Psycho Cafe — which peaked at No. 58 — offered a savvy blend of glam metal and funk-metal, with nimble bass grooves supplementing metallic riffs and Joe Leste’s ...

Whatever the case, many of these bands retain cult followings today, and for good reason. Read on to see our list of 10 Underrated Hair Metal Bands That Deserved to Be Way Bigger.

And for that I declare them [confetti going off in the background] my “Metal Band to Watch in 2024!” [mic and speaker both disappear, the wooden stage collapses, leaving a misty maroon swamp].