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

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 ...

The 1980s were a time of experimentation and excess that saw the birth of hair metal, thrash metal, alternative rock, new ...

overused hair spray, and music television. While plenty of bands or artists from that decade are re-forming to make a little money off this retro obsession, other prominent groups from the '80s ...