Before we can dive into bands who are wrongly labeled hair metal, we must ask ourselves: what exactly defines hair metal? Is it the teased hair? The extravagant stage garb and makeup? Songs about ...

Critics coined the term “hair metal” as a shorthand dismissal of the countless copycat hard rock bands that cluttered the Sunset Strip and ruled the airwaves throughout much of the ’80s.

Today's middle-aged men and women still can't seem to get enough of reliving the days of tight-rolled jeans, overused hair spray, and music television. While plenty of bands or artists from that ...

With such famous names as David Lee Roth, Axl Rose, Bret Michaels , Dee Snider, Jon Bon Jovi and Sebastian Bach hair metal boasted some of the greatest frontmen to ever step behind a mic. But who was ...