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.

That many hair metal bands seemed to take themselves a bit too seriously may have been part of the joke: They did so almost ...

Credit: Getty Images/Paul Natkin In May 1988, LA hair metal band Dokken set out on the biggest tour of their career - but it would prove disastrous. Monsters Of Rock was a travelling festival ...

In the cultural wasteland of the Reagan era, they showed that a band could break through to mass appeal without being cheesy, ...

Less than a month after running an Oasis sketch that was greeted with near-universal derision, long-running US comedy show ...

Host Bill Burr portrays a dad who gushes about the band Snake Skin to his son. SNL Pokes Fun at ’80s Hair Metal with “Sex ...

Chris Cornell may have reached the pinnacle of rock stardom with Soundgarden, but he thought this was the best band to ...

But you know all the bands are going to milk it, those greedy fuckers. Just the other day, I saw a pornogrind cover of some chick chopping a dude’s dick off with a cleaver! What the fuck, guys? Death ...

Motley Crue are the definitive 1980s hair metal band — even though their late career antics have sometimes overshadowed their impressive musical accomplishments. Emerging out of the Sunset Strip ...

Rick Rubin may not have known the ins and outs of recording or music theory, but his intuition led him to making this metal ...

Guns N' Roses At first glance, Guns n’ Roses looked like any number of hair metal bands crawling out of the Sunset Strip during the second half of the 1980s. But then 1987’s game-changing ...