Grunge often gets the credit/blame for the downfall of hair metal and, while that's mostly true, it wasn't the only contributing factor, at least not according to Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy. Ratt band ...

Grunge is constantly credited with killing hair metal as the movement fully bloomed in the early '90s. Stryper's Michael Sweet, however, has a different point of view and doesn't believe this ...

It’s easier to make sense of history by placing events into clean boxes. For example, the day Nirvana dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, a bunch of hair metal bands lost their record deals. Grunge and ...

The decline of metal in the 90s, specifically of the hair variety, is usually blamed on the explosion of grunge bands onto the scene. Outfits like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana quickly ...

Father Time has a flawless record. It’s a cliché you typically hear when sportscasters talk about aging athletes, but often it can apply to music genres as well. After all, we aren’t still listening ...

Though grunge did away with hair metal’s cultural ubiquity, you can easily spot the hair metal roots (accidental pun) in bands like Pearl Jam and its precursor, Mother Love Bone. Stone Gossard said he ...

Here are 10 hair metal music videos that defined 1980s (and very, very early 1990s) pop culture. Big hair. Bigger hooks. Even bigger budgets for fog machines and neon lighting. If there’s one thing ...

The bands’ looks were over-the-top. So were the aesthetics of their clips for MTV. By Gavin Edwards When the author Susan Orlean wrote about Bon Jovi for Rolling Stone in 1987, she gave the hair of ...