Read on to see hair metal's five best bassists. It's not easy contending with two guitar wizards at once, but Juan Croucier ...

Heavy metal has produced legendary artists celebrated for groundbreaking music, powerful live performances, and innovative sounds. Yet, some bands receive accolades and acclaim that many feel surpass ...

The 21st century is hardly the peak of popularity for hair metal, but plenty of newcomers have released some great albums ...

Hair metal is a divisive subgenre, even down to the name of the style of music it’s most known as. Whatever you want to call it, we’re looking at the most underrated bands from the scene that ...

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.

Hopefully these nods to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical establishment and will pave the way for similar inductions in the future.

By almost any conceivable metric, Guns N' Roses were categorically not a hair metal band. But here's the thing: Their biggest hit is a tender, uptempo ballad with a sugary-sweet chorus and a ...