The case of this band is quite interesting because they went from heavy metal to a more pop-oriented sound. A few years later, most kids in the 80s would be listening to Def Leppard thanks to the ...

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

As the '80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed ... and fans reaped the benefits. Glam metal bands had ruled the charts for nearly ...

bands like Def Leppard, Kiss, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Extreme, and Tesla are not on this list. While, yes, some of these groups made massively successful pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s ...

And the same can be said of other US number ones from later in the ’80s - Bon Jovi’s Slippery ... the album 13), while other classic heavy metal bands active before Quiet Riot have never ...

But if Led Zeppelin and AC/DC are best described as hard rock bands, then so are Quiet Riot. Despite its title, Metal Health is more hard rock and than heavy metal. And the same can be said of other ...

he was a dyed-in-the-wool extreme metal fan. As a kid growing up in the 80s, he was introduced to bands such as Kiss and Mötley Crüe by his older brother, Sebastian, but he soon discovered ...

Heavy Metal. Pure Rock KNAC launched on January 8, 1986. The station was designed to attract a younger audience, and it did. I recall numerous kids wearing Pure Rock T-shirts or those of bands ...