Our list of the 11 best hair metal debut albums shows just how much diversity existed within a subgenre that was too often maligned by critics as one-dimensional fluff. Granted, hair metal — or glam ...

If you think it was easy to pick the best album by 11 legendary hair metal bands, you haven't listened to enough hair metal. Although many critics dismissed the genre as lightweight fluff, there's no ...

Cinderella always felt like a different kind of hair metal band. On the album cover for Night Songs, Tom Keifer and his band encapsulate the look of the era. However, they also collaborated with ...

Move over, thrash — these are the six best hair metal albums of 1986. As the Bay Area headbangers were catching fire and pioneering a subgenre based on full-speed-or-nothing brutality, a different ...