The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true ... massively successful pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s, they were either already successfully established hard-rock ...

Many of the artists on our list of 10 Underrated Hair Metal Bands That Deserved to Be Way ... The 10 Best Hair Metal Albums of the 1990s As the ’80s progressed and the L.A. hard rock scene ...

Since the subgenre exploded in the early '80s, hair metal has been widely ... to some of the era's biggest and brightest bands helped legitimize hair metal in the eyes of the critical ...

The term "hair metal" was coined as a pejorative catch-all for the sex- and party-obsessed hard rock bands that emerged predominantly from the Sunset Strip and conquered the world in the '80s.

The bands that had once thrived on the colorful, over-the-top glam of the '80s now found themselves faced with a new reality. Many hair metal bands released albums throughout the 1990s and beyond ...