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 ...

It’s easier to make sense of history by placing events into clean boxes. For example, the day Nirvana dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, a bunch of hair metal bands lost their record deals. Grunge and ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Kip Winger went from hair-metal joke to Grammy-nominated classical composer — and has the accolades to back him up ...

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 ...

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 ...