hair metal

Hair metal is a term that was coined in the 1990s, but in it's heyday in the '80s it was called "glam metal." It emerged in the mid and late '70s with bands like KISS, Van Halen, Def Leppard, etc. However, disco and the singer soundwriter era dominated that era until 1981 when MTV came out and drowned our TVs with New Wave and punk rock. It wasn't until '83 when Quiet Riot's "Cum on Feel the Noise" topped the charts, bringing "hair metal" into the mainstream.. Bands like Iron Maiden, Ratt, Motley Crue, etc. At the same time, the bands in the LA scene from the sunset strip would make it big in the mid and late '80s. From the late '80s into the beginning of the '90s, hair metal became saturated with power ballads, alcoholism, and problems within the bands. The hair metal power ballad dominated the charts from 1986 through 1991. Then all of a sudden, an unknown band from an underground scene in Seattle launched this one particular song in late 1991 that changed the rock scene forever... By 1992, hair metal fizzled away....