Grunge often gets the credit/blame for the downfall of hair metal and, while that's mostly true, it wasn't the only contributing factor, at least not according to Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy. Ratt band ...
Grunge is constantly credited with killing hair metal as the movement fully bloomed in the early '90s. Stryper's Michael Sweet, however, has a different point of view and doesn't believe this ...
It’s easier to make sense of history by placing events into clean boxes. For example, the day Nirvana dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, a bunch of hair metal bands lost their record deals. Grunge and ...
The decline of metal in the 90s, specifically of the hair variety, is usually blamed on the explosion of grunge bands onto the scene. Outfits like Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and Nirvana quickly ...
Father Time has a flawless record. It’s a cliché you typically hear when sportscasters talk about aging athletes, but often it can apply to music genres as well. After all, we aren’t still listening ...
“It’s something I say in one of the songs, ‘The separation starts here',” said Chino Moreno, referring to what would become ...
Hair metal was a wild party, with seemingly every blond-haired voicebox pairing up with their very own enigmatic six-stringer as they prepared to stake their claim amongst the posturing masses. In the ...
In the late 80s, Alice In Chains guitarist and vocalist Jerry Cantrell accompanied Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil to a show in Seattle by Canadian punk-rockers D.O.A. and took the opportunity to quiz his ...
Though grunge did away with hair metal’s cultural ubiquity, you can easily spot the hair metal roots (accidental pun) in bands like Pearl Jam and its precursor, Mother Love Bone. Stone Gossard said he ...
Grunge and hard rock always had a slight overlap, but Bruce Dickinson always believed that one of the grunge titans had a lot ...
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