The post Dave Mustaine on Thrash vs. Glam Metal: Metallica and Mötley Crüe Were Actually “Similar” appeared first on Consequence. Nowadays, fans of different metal genres are more accepting of each ...

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 ...

Usually when a fad fizzles, its casual fans disperse and its faithful just hang tough. But no trend, including the macarena and Jewel, has been subjected to the hostility and convenient disgust that ...

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. Though ...

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 ...

When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these five hair metal bands shows that some groups managed to adapt to the times ...

Did you know Michael Jackson copied Warrant’s early look for his album “Bad”? Or that quintessential ’80s bands Quiet Riot and Twister Sister were actually ’70s bands? Or guitarist Dave “Snake” Sabo, ...

A tragedy occurred on a cruise trip celebrating the music of the 1980s. Kimberly Burch, 56, fiancee of Taime Downe, lead singer of the glam metal band Faster Pussycat, died after falling overboard a ...