Stryper performed Wednesday night at San Antonio’s Aztec Theater as part of a tour celebrating the band’s 40th anniversary. The members’ advancing ages combined with the group’s status as hair metal’s ...

"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 ...

Think hair metal and glam rock are dead? Think again. The genres are thriving, mainly in Europe, but also globally. Here is a non-comprehensive list of some modern bands that sound like 80s hair metal ...

Break out the Aqua Net and lock up your daughters. That was the mantra throughout the 1980s, when leather-clad rockers with hair teased skyward, sex appeal gushing and guitar solos screaming, prowled ...

What do you get when you have a band that dresses in outfits that resemble a bumble bee, play heavy metal music, but sing lyrics about Jesus? The punchline, at least in the 1980’s, was a band with a ...

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 deserved ...