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Hair Metal
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Primary Stylistic Influences: Traditional Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Arena Rock, Pop Secondary Stylistic Influences: Glam Rock, Bubblegum, Punk Rock, Proto Punk, Power Pop, Blues Rock A subset of Hard Rock and Heavy Metal, crossed with pop (think of lighters-aloft power ballads), it was popular mainly during The '80s, so-called because of the tendencies of the musicians to sport teased, dyed and moussed '80s Hair. Some bands accentuated this by wearing androgynous clothing, spandex and sometimes makeup as well. While none of this was actually originated by Hair Metal itself, the decade's emphasis on visual presentation and stage spectacle has made the style synonymous with the term (which, today, is commonly used in a decidedly derisive tone). To the ire of fans of other metal sub-genres, hair metal codified the general public's image of metal; when a layperson refers to "heavy metal" (or even "hard rock"), they most likely mean this genre, when they don't think of some weird, heavy Frankenstein of Death Metal, Black Metal, and Slipknot. This is something of a hard genre to pin down musically, considering its name really refers to fashion more than anything else. Naturally, more bands than just the ones of this designation had '80s Hair at the time, and, also naturally, bands vary heavily. However, a few generalized aspects common across many bands are comparatively high-pitched vocals (compared to other metal, some of which has a noticeable bias for low voices), and a sound that seems to echo. Hair Metal also tends to be more professionally produced and less "raw"-sounding, making full use of studio engineering equipment and audio modification devices such as reverb and other electronica. Alongside the distorted guitars, hair metal bands also used synthesizers to fill out their sound. Virtuoso playing was celebrated, particularly on lead guitar and drums. It is worth noting that hair metal came into vogue around the same time Arena Rock was on its way out (indeed, Bon Jovi's breakthrough album Slippery When Wet was released in the same year as Raised On Radio, the last Journey album to feature Steve Perry on lead vocals for nearly ten years) and consequently inherited much of that genre's penchant for melodicism which leavened its heavier riffs, vocal harmonies and guitar pyrotechnics, in many ways being its spiritual successor. Hair Metal bands often became as famous, if not more so, for their hard-partying lifestyles, involving drugs, alcohol and promiscuity, as for their music, as befitting the "decade of excess". The media response was a moral panic about metal's allegedly harmful influences on youth. The genre pretty much died out by 1993. There were many reasons, but the best remembered one being the success of Seattle Grunge band Nirvana's Nevermind album late 1991 ushering in a sea change in the public's taste for rock music from hair bands to Alternative Rock. Not only that, but fans of hard rock were becoming tired of hair metal, and some felt the genre was leaning too much towards mainstream pop, particularly due to its reliance on big hit power ballads. As with Progressive Rock in the '70s, hair metal bands seemed out of touch with the day-to-day concerns of young people among economic malaise. The metal scene's savior also came in 1991, in the form of Metallica, a Thrash Metal band whose dark, technical style had gained them critical acclaim and a fanbase so large that they could pack stadiums without much in the way of radio hits. Metallica released their self-titled "Black Album" one month before Nevermind, and it too became a monster smash, paving the way for other darker, heavier, faster, technical and/or less glammy bands like Pantera, Slayer, Megadeth, Sepultura and tool to have major success in the 1990s. Hard rock fans looking for a happy medium between alt-rock and the newer metal bands could find that in Alternative Metal, a combination of the two genres, which supplanted hair metal on rock radio in the '90s with the success of artists like Primus, King's X, White Zombie and Faith No More. As for the hair bands? Some of them gave up the ghost entirely, while others switched their sound to adapt with the times. Bon Jovi was the biggest success in this regard, completely changing their style to adult contemporary while retaining much of their popularity and fanbase. Other big name acts like Mötley Crüe and Ratt, failed in their new, darker 90s guises, which both alienated their old fans and got them mocked relentlessly by grunge and newer metal fans. Some hard rock bands whose sounds were tangentially connected to Hair Metal (either in style, their influence or the public's perception), like Def Leppard and Guns N' Roses, continued to be concert draws without changing their sound for the times. It should also be mentioned that, while some of these bands are still around, practically none of them these days stick to the Hair Metal sound and image of its glory days. So their newer music may not fall under this label. Hair Metal may have fallen out of fashion for many people, but it still has a dedicated fanbase. If you meet any of them today, you might not want to risk mentioning grunge. Many American hair metal groups also retained followings in Japan and other Asian markets, where heavy metal music is still extremely popular. American hair bands that were relegated to state fairs and nostalgia package tours in their home country by the early 2000s could rely on playing huge venues in Japan when they went abroad to tour. The genre was also one of the influences on the Japanese genre Visual Kei. In a recursive way, the hair metal look is actually beginning to come back into style due to a variety of factors, those mostly being that the most rabid hatedom has itself become less respected or calmed down via Enemy Mine when all rock and metal died out in the mainstream, that many people began to realize that the looks weren't the reason for the flood of un-artistic, unoriginal music, and that with the resurgence of metal and hard rock outside of the West and in the underground in the West, many of the artists involved never saw the problem to be looks and/or have influences from Visual Kei or scene or similar. Often associated with Glam Rock. Post-Grunge could be considered its Spiritual Successor, being a similarly commercialized derivative of a less accessible subgenre and sharing similar lyrical content; Power Metal also has a similar Hard Rock-influenced sound and intentional cheesiness. Almost all of these bands also overlap with both Arena Rock and Hard Rock, as contrary to the name, it is mostly the '80s equivalent of said genres, with few metal elements. |
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W.A.S.P. (Blurred the line between hair metal and Shock Rock on their first few albums. They began taking a Traditional Heavy Metal turn as time went on, and by the late 80s they had dropped most of what little hair metal influence they had.) | |
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Ozzy Osbourne (As the forefather of metal music, he had a lot of clout with all the hair bands, who were eager to tour with him. Dabbled with the genre himself on The Ultimate Sin. Also, good luck finding a glam guitarist who wasn't influenced by Randy Rhoads. We'll wait.) Not to mention Randy Rhoads was plucked straight from seminal glam band Quiet Riot, which he was the founder of. | |
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EZO (A Japanese band whose singer Masaki Yamada later became a pioneer in the Visual Kei metal genre) | |
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Steel Dragon (from the movie Rock Star) | |
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Guns N' Roses (According to Slash, the band went through a "glam period" that was short-lived because the band got tired of borrowing stuff from a carousel of girlfriends. By the time Appetite for Destruction came out, only trace elements remained. The group actually made themselves staunch opponents of the Hollywood glam scene, particularly Poison, who ironically Slash himself had auditioned for after the band's original guitarist Matt Smith left. Appetite for Destruction (1987), the band's wildly-acclaimed debut, was a darker and edgier take emphasizing punk and blues influences. The followup Use Your Illusion (1991) instead hewed toward arena-sized bombast, contrasting all the more with the incoming grunge craze. The band would have probably retained their massive popularity well into the alternative-era if they didn't implode on themselves in 1993.) | |
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Annihilator (one of the rare Thrash Metal examples of this trope. "Set the World on Fire" was considerably more commercial then the band's previous two albums, with it being more Hard Rock then Thrash, particularly songs like "No Zone", "Don't Bother Me" and the Power Ballad "Phoenix Rising") | |
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Celtic Frost (The Cold Lake album, considered an Old Shame by the band) | |
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Whitesnake (lead singer David Coverdale is one of the rare singers associated with hair metal who has a baritone voice; they jumped on the hair bandwagon in the late 1980s when Coverdale recruited a succession of flashy guitarists, including John Sykes, Adrian Vandenberg, Vivian Campbell and Steve Vai, but they'd been around for years as the successor band to Deep Purple, the band Coverdale had been singing with in the late 1970s, and had performed as Whitesnake for a number of years playing a style of blues rock which Coverdale characterised as "progressive R&B"). | |
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Heart (starting with their self-titled album in 1985 and continuing until Desire Walks On in 1993) | |
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Bad English (A supergroup that included solo star John Waite as the lead vocalist and two members of Journey. Best known for their #1 hit "When I See You Smile") | |
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Enforcer (Zenith, though they started incorporating glam elements on Death by Fire) | |
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Lion (Best known for doing the theme song for The Transformers: The Movie) | |
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Dokken (plus Don Dokken's solo album and George Lynch's own band "Lynch Mob") | |
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Iron Weasel (from the Disney XD series I'm in the Band) | |
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Scorpions (went into this starting with Love at First Sting up until Face the Heat, mostly known for being the most successful intercontinental band of all time and one of the longest lasting bands ever, having formed in 1965! As mentioned above, the later Uli Jon Roth and early Matthias Jabs-era material was also a massive influence on the genre.) | |
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Skid Row (A heavier, more traditionally metal band, ended up successfully crossing over into Thrash and Speed Metal by their second album, and ended up surviving the emergence of Grunge by their close links to early-90's bands such as Pantera.) | |
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TNT (Have dropped in and out of the genre's purview. In the band's beginning they were a very bluesy Traditional Metal group. When they actually began to fall into this, they kept prog-rock elementsnote the band made extensive use of almost-choir-like backing vocals, and almost Queen-inspired pomp. By the mid-90s the band slipped into an almost "Alice In Chains-meets-The Beatles" style of music, and the band themselves have denied actually being glam) | |
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Loudness (from around 1985 until 1992, see Minoru Niihara below. In 1992 they dropped Hair Metal for a heavily thrash-inspired sound...) | |
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Hardline (their first album was their only straight example. Their second album had traces of this, but by their third album, they had successfully transitioned away from that) | |
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X was literally a band featuring three real outlaws (in a certain sense of the word) in its early days, as were most of the first round of Extasy Records bands. Yoshiki, Taiji, and Toshi were all bosozoku at one point (Japanese Delinquents and bikers). Music/Tokyo Yankees and Grand Slam were also bosozoku/yankii heavy bands, with Tokyo Yankees even naming themselves after yankii. This actually led to major problems in X's and the label's early days, as they (and some of their rougher fans) would get into repeated Bar Brawl with rival bands, and even outright threaten their critics or haters with actual violence, going as far as to mail them bloody knives and harass them at their homes. It was officially ended as a practice by the bands and label around 1988-89 when X signed major with Sony and the realization that it could do more harm than good to their image, but some of the fans still continue it against everyone's wishes. | |
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Winger (sold mostly on the strength of lead singer/bass guitarist Kip Winger's looks, which often overshadowed their technical skills—they've been called "the hair band version of Dream Theater"—and eventually went down with the rising popularity of Grunge. Their reputation has improved of late to some degree due to both their musicianship and Pull, which was easily one of the darkest, most mature albums to ever come from a glam act.) | |
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Stryper (a Christian-rock variant, famous for giving away Bibles at their shows) | |
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Wolfgang von Colt (another fictional example, from Rock of Ages. Well, almost the movie's entire soundtrack is hair metal.) | |
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Ted Nugent (went into this with Penetrator, his most commercial album, he then went into a slightly harder version of this sound with Little Miss Dangerous and then combined with with his old sound for If You Can't Lick Em Lick Em) | |
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Ratt | |
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T.S.O.L. (They made their name for themselves as a gothic hardcore punk band, but changed their style a few times in the late 1980s; First to hard rock with Revenge, and then to hair metal for Hit and Run and Strange Love. By the time that last album was released, the band was without any original members. When the band's next album came out in 2001, they were back to a lineup that included original members and had returned to their punk sound) | |
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David Lee Roth's solo career also qualifies, especially Eat Em And Smile, Skyscraper and A Little Ain't Enough. | |
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Steel Panther | |
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UFO (Band) (went into this with Obsession) | |
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Black Veil Brides (They started as metalcore but switched to this and made it their signature style; also another rare example where the singer has a low voice) | |
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Girlschool (Started out as a female version of Motorhead, then went for more of a Hair Metal sound starting with 1983's Play Dirty and continuing until their self-titled 1992 album, where they went back to their punk-metal roots. Today they're mostly notable for being the longest lasting all-female band of all time) | |
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Twisted Sister (though they personally define themselves as "Hid-Metal") | |
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Cheap Trick (on their albums The Doctor, Lap of Luxury, and Busted) | |
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Petra (one of the earliest Christian Rock bands, having recorded since the early 70s. Their mid and late-80s albums featured a hair metal-inspired sound that they dropped by 1991.) | |
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Aerosmith had a harder edge to their riffing than many of their other 1970s contemporaries, and Steven Tyler's vocal style and lyrical themes influenced a legion of future glam vocalists. Furthermore, "Dream On" effectively created the template for piano-driven hard rock ballads, and was very likely an influence on a lot of future Power Ballads. The band themselves combined this sound with their signature Blues Rock sound starting with "Done With Mirrors" and continuing until "Get a Grip". | |
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Tesla (A bluesy band that was characterized by the influential rock magazine Kerrang! as "the thinking man's Van Halen" upon their debut. They were particularly notable for being decidedly un-glam for a hair metal band: They typically performed in their regular street clothes and had an affinity for performing acoustic versions of their songs in concert. Although this meant that they didn't have a defining image back in the genre's heyday, their lack of one resulted in them being relatively unaffected by the rise of grunge. For one, they kept having hits on the Billboard rock charts up through 2008.) | |
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Pantera (yes, that Pantera. Their first three albums with singer Terry Glaze are pure glam, while their first outing with Phil Anselmo straddles the line between heavy metal and glam. Since the release of their massive breakout album Cowboys From Hell in 1990, the band completely disowned their glam era, treating it as Old Shame until way after their official breakup) | |
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Limozeen | |
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Damn Yankees (a supergroup featuring Styx's Tommy Shaw, Night Ranger's Jack Blades, Accept's Michael Cartellone and solo-star Ted Nugent) | |
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Danger Danger (until the mid-90s when Ted Poley left and the band went for a more alternative sound with Dawn then they reunited with Ted and returned to their roots with Revolve) | |
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Nickelback: Started out as Alternative Rock then combined this with post-grunge, with "Dark Horse" being the most noteworthy example as it was produced by none other then Mutt Lange. | |
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