The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history ... pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s, they were either already successfully established ...

Hair metal” is not an actual genre. You know it, we know it and the myriad bands that got unfairly lumped into the category ...

overused hair spray, and music television. While plenty of bands or artists from that decade are re-forming to make a little money off this retro obsession, other prominent groups from the '80s ...

The Uncensored Story of ‘80s Hair Metal. Tremaine traces the origins of hair metal to Van Halen, a band that launched off the Sunset Strip. Other bands quickly followed, including Quiet Riot, W.A.S.P.