A chart-topping 1992 power ballad helped close the door on the hair metal era as the genre’s dominance on the Billboard ...

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The soft rock classic is widely considered the last glam metal song to hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Here are five metal songs to play on a bar jukebox that will make normal people leave. No, this is not a hypothetical scenario. What you'll find below is essentially a field summary of my own audio ...

But our overall winner for the week were black metal godfathers Venom, Lay Down Your Soul tapping into the primordial nastiness that helped spawn metal's most evil subgenre in the first place. This ...

Ah, hair metal. Where would the 1980s be without you? The genre is one of the strangest in recent memory, a mixture of head-banging and glam. Tough guys with sleeveless shirts and feathery blow-dried ...

How would you introduce your child to nu-metal and which song would you choose to do it? For many who grew up with nu-metal, they are now becoming parents and the music that was popular in their youth ...

Nu Metal took the music world by storm in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The heavy, aggressive music and angsty lyrics were like catnip for teens and people in their early 20s. However, those of us ...

As hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever you want to call it — became the predominant rock subgenre conquering the airwaves, artists and producers alike found that they could multiply ...

The Oakland Athletics have recently been named the most metal team in baseball. Fans and players alike have embraced this, and there is now an area in the right field bleachers called “The Metal ...