Ah, the '80s rock ballad. There's nothing quite as glorious as a sold-out arena illuminated by a sea of Bic lighters held aloft during one of your favorite band's slow, sweet jams. The following ...

Metalheads have feelings too, and these days, it pays to show them. Just as country stars like Faith Hill and rappers like LL Cool J have used ballads to widen their audiences, tattooed, leather-cl… ...

Here are the 11 cheesiest hair metal ballads. Over the years, there have been few subgenres of heavy metal that have been as completely polarizing as the rise of glam metal, or as some say, hair ...

We’ve rounded up 10 classic thrash ballads that, while not likely to give Michael Bolton sleepless nights, at least a different side to some of metal’s most vicious bands.

The '80s were a wild time for rock and roll. With so many flavors to choose from, it was hard to narrow a list down to 20 of the greatest rock bands.

The mark of being called "hair metal" or "glam metal" is one that many bands coming out in the 1980s wanted to wash away.

It's fun to mock the barrage of '80s rock ballads that came out of the rock and hair metal scene that decade, but as much as we'd like to pretend that upbeat anthems brought everyone out to the ...

Write off our list of The Best Ballad From 11 Big Hair Metal Bands at your own risk — there's way more substance here than haters would lead you to believe.