Are these bands hair metal or not? History lumps them into the subgenre, but there's some arguments to be made against it!
Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the ’80s — ...
Some were in pretty successful hair metal bands, but don't get mentioned often enough in discussions about metal's best ...
The English guitarist co-wrote Whitesnake's 'Is This Love,' one of the defining power ballads of late-'80s hard rock.
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.