But, here’s the thing: just because grunge kicked down the glam metal door with a muddy Doc Marten boot doesn’t mean the hair metal heroes of the 1980s went quietly into the night. Nope! Some of them ...

Watch as members of Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard and other "hair metal" bands give their opinions about the genre that killed their momentum -- grunge. Warrant singer Jani Lane was one of the ...

The decline of metal in the 90s, specifically of the hair variety, is usually blamed on the explosion of grunge bands onto the scene. Outfits like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana quickly ...

Father Time has a flawless record. It’s a cliché you typically hear when sportscasters talk about aging athletes, but often it can apply to music genres as well. After all, we aren’t still listening ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “A short time later, they recorded a demo that contained many of the songs you hear on Facelift and they had a drop D tuning on ...

Though grunge did away with hair metal’s cultural ubiquity, you can easily spot the hair metal roots (accidental pun) in bands like Pearl Jam and its precursor, Mother Love Bone. Stone Gossard said he ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...