The 1980s was a decade known for the birth of the last of Generation X and big-hair bands. It also produced some of the best ...

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

Rock music in the late 1980s ushered in a new breed of bands that encouraged makeup on men, big hair, out of control partying ...

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.

Related: These Stars Fully Embraced Big Hair in the '80s. See What They Looked Like Then ... met), as well as the aesthetics of popular metal bands. Most times, she does her own hair at home ...