Even the most intensely purist metalheads out there can't help but get a kick out of these glam metal songs from the 1980s.

Contrary to popular opinion, glam metal didn't immediately disappear once grunge hit the scene — but for all intents and purposes, the subgenre took its last breath on Sept. 24, 1991, the day Nirvana ...

There was nothing quite like the glam metal movement of the 1980s (and 1990s, honestly). Loud music, loud hair, loud outfits, and loud audiences were the main elements of the notably visual genre, and ...

Remember the musical landscape in 1987? Back then, glam metal undisputably owned rock and roll. Mötley Crüe’s “Girls, Girls, Girls” hit number two. Whitesnake went multi-platinum. Poison, Ratt, and ...

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Call it what you will, Glam Metal, Hair Metal, Cock Rock or plain old '80s metal, there is something to be said for an entire subculture that extended from the late '70s and into the early '90s that ...

Steel Panther is gearing up to hit the road overseas. The California glam metal band has announced an extensive slate of European tour dates for next year, while still wrapping up a handful of shows ...

German glam rock vets Kissin' Dynamite have been running rampant for 20 years and their seventh album, Not the End of the Road, is out now. As modernized as their sound is, who can resist some ...

You'd be hard-pressed to find a rock subgenre more critically reviled than glam metal. Unsurprisingly, the critics hated it, and not always without reason. For every six-string virtuoso and ...

Set fire to your drumsticks and crank the dry ice up to 11. The bands that once ruled metal may be returning to the throne. But is there more to glam than loud riffs, spandex and debauchery? A diving ...

Call it what you will — glam metal, hair metal, cock rock, or plain old ’80s metal — but there’s something to be said for a subculture that extended from the late ’70s into the early ’90s that refuses ...