Are these bands hair metal or not? History lumps them into the subgenre, but there's some arguments to be made against it!

The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true ... massively successful pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s, they were either already successfully established hard-rock ...

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the '80s — is known ... the era's biggest and best bands also had great ...

The 1980s were a time of experimentation and excess that saw the birth of hair metal, thrash metal, alternative rock, new wave, and other new genres. Solo artists and pop excluded, here are the 20 ...