But as the 1980s dawned, a new sound began to dominate the airwaves: hair metal. With its infectious hooks, over-the-top glam, and electrifying energy, this new wave was impossible to ignore.

When Whitesnake’s album Slip Of The Tongue was released in 1989, singer David Coverdale made an extraordinary claim about the ...

Read on to see the worst album by 11 big hair metal bands.

Our list of the Best Hair Metal Album of Every Year From 1981 to 1991 proves that before it was relegated to the dustbin of history, hair metal — or glam metal, or pop-metal, or whatever the ...

READ MORE: The 10 Best Hair Metal Albums of the 1990s. As the ’80s progressed and the L.A. hard rock scene became increasingly saturated, the latter category began to outweigh the former.

Any album is a small miracle to get over the line, but Def Leppard were up against it in a much different way when making their masterpiece.

Also arriving in September 1991: Guns N’ Roses sprawling two-album collection. While GN’R emerged from the Sunset Strip hair metal scene, Appetite For Destruction proved the band was too big ...

Hair metal albums need a power ballad. And 80s bands had no problem leaning into deeply earnest lyrics, with emotional and overtly sentimental singers.

Here are the 9 best non-hair metal albums released by hair metal bands. The 1980s were synonymous with larger-than-life personas, infectious, anthemic choruses, long, flowing locks, skin-tight ...