Are these bands hair metal or not? History lumps them into the subgenre, but there's some arguments to be made against it!

Cher's best song is a disco track that came out in the 1990s that feels like an homage to the queen of the genre: Donna ...

He helped compose one of the defining power ballads of the late-1980s hair-metal scene in “Is This Love,” which drove sales of Whitesnake’s self-titled 1987 LP to sales of more than 8 ...

Whether it’s almost changing their name to Stalingrad or filling their biggest hit with whistling, there’s always a sting in ...

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for ... and would be indistinguishable from the glut of late-period hair metal ballads if not for C.J. Snare's evocative, supercharged vocals.

"Between You, God, the Devil and the Dead is surely one of Avatarium's finest LPs due to its consistent songwriting and ...

Rating the storied career of one of modern metal's most important bands as they head out on tour to celebrate 20 years of ...

And thus, the hair metal power ballad was born. At the pinnacle of this hair metal tradition is Poison’s ‘Every Rose Has Its Thorn’, an acoustic strummer that became the band’s biggest hit.