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. Hair metal — glam metal, pop-metal, ...

When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these ...

Even if the mark of being called “hair metal” or “glam metal” is one that many bands coming out in the 1980s wanted to wash away like the Aqua Net freezing up their locks, it was one most couldn’t ...

While few would classify Heart as a hair metal band, they were certainly adjacent to the movement with their sky-high ‘dos and reverb-laden power ballads. At the very least, the 1980s saw the band ...

Discover What’s Streaming On: Big hair and big hooks, power chords and power ballads, leather and spandex, pointy-ass guitars and lyrics that would definitely get you canceled. Despite all this — or ...

Everybody loves power ballads, whether or not they admit it. There’s just something about a rock band slowing things down and cranking up the emotion. For generations, the force of power ballads has ...

"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 ...

Here are five hair metal bands who only got to release one album. We can all envision the rock and roll culture of the 1980s: Los Angeles was packed, MTV was blasting power ballads on repeat, and ...

Rock 'n' roll fans can relive the glory days of the '80s as Ratt frontman Stephen Pearcy, Quiet Riot and Vixen hit the stage Friday at Barton Coliseum during the Arkansas State Fair. The three acts ...

'80s Band Legend, 73, Nails Famous Power Ballad at Recent Concert: 'Sings Like an Angel' originally appeared on Parade. Some voices are simply timeless, and Kevin Cronin just proved that beautiful ...

When it comes to iconic 1980s rock ballads, no band quite stacks up to Air Supply in the "lyrics that make you want to cry all night long in a good way" department. From "Making Love Out of Nothing at ...