When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these ...

“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. Critics ...

Here's five hair metal bands who haven't reunited in 20-plus years... but should! Let’s face it — no genre took the phrase “sex, drugs, and rock ‘n’ roll” more seriously (or sprayed more Aqua Net) ...

Though Seattle’s grunge bands scrubbed L.A.’s hair metal bands from MTV in the early ’90s, some of them were influenced by the bands they replaced. Pearl Jam’s Stone Gossard recently revealed how ...

The following list of the most underrated song by 11 legendary hair metal bands proves that the genre was more than hits and filler. Hair metal – or glam-metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to ...

Van Halen’s 1984 featured the hit single “Jump”, a keyboard song performed by the world’s greatest rock guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. Both Van Halen’s two-word band name and keyboard hit inspired John ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In the recent book ‘Precious Metal,’ the writers of heavy metal geek mag ...

Confessor plays Lincoln Theatre Friday, May 18, with Jonin and Parasite Drag. The 9 p.m. show costs $10–$12. In the winter of 2005, Tina Shoaf, the wife of Confessor guitarist Brian Shoaf, was reading ...

Thousands of years after the Bronze and Iron Ages, the true Metal Age dawned half a century ago. In 1970, Black Sabbath convincingly evoked the true essence of evil with the lumbering, three-chord ...