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 guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

We're giving a nod to those golden-throated frontmen in our list of the Top 15 Hair Metal Singers. As always, our ranking comes with qualifications. Some of the vocalists on this list did not ...

Despite being pigeon-holed in the hair metal genre, Winger’s self-titled release is the only album in the band’s repertoire that really fits the definition. 1993’s Pull showcased a ...

The English guitarist co-wrote Whitesnake's 'Is This Love,' one of the defining power ballads of late-'80s hard rock.

Ghost frontman Tobias Forge is one of the breakout metal stars of the last 15 years. But before he dragged the masked Swedish ...

Guitarist John Sykes, who played with the rock bands Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy, has died at 65. He helped compose one of the defining power ballads of the late-1980s hair-metal scene in “Is This ...