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 ...

Watch as members of Motley Crue, Poison, Def Leppard and other "hair metal" bands give their opinions about the genre that killed their momentum -- grunge. Warrant singer Jani Lane was one of the ...

Bolstered by the success of Nirvana, “grunge” underwent a rapid transformation from the underground sound of the Pacific Northwest to the Next Big Thing, supplanting metal as the popular rock music of ...

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 ...

In a recent conversation with Kahler Guitar And Bass Bridges, Kreator's incombustible frontman, Mille Petrozza, opened up about the band's challenging journey through the 1990s, a decade that ...

"It didn't kill us, but it changed our perspective seeing what was happening to the other bands." The rise of grunge in the early '90s marked a seismic shift in the music industry. While the Seattle ...

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 ...

After a successful debut, Alice In Chains released 'Dirt' in 1992 with grunge and alternative rock fully embedded in pop ...

Since 1983, California-bred Testament has evolved into one of the biggest names in thrash metal. If you were a metal fan in the past three decades, chances are such albums as 1987’s The Legacy, 1992’s ...

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