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 ...

When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these five hair metal bands shows that some groups managed to adapt to the times ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alice in Chains are seen as one of the bands that helped define the hard rock era that arose from early-1990s Seattle. However, their precise style didn’t exactly align with the music being put out by ...

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 ...

Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley believes that grunge music and its fans were “trying to kill” the metal icons during the '90s. Bayley fronted Maiden from 1994-99, during grunge’s mainstream ...

Even though grunge is regarded as the music that brought glam metal’s popularity to an end, Poison's Bret Michaels doesn’t hold a grudge toward any of the genre’s artists. While many fans and ...

Man, remember when you used to switch on MTV and see vids by Poison, Warrant and Winger practically all day long? Not anymore. In fact, those bands and other pop-metal hair bands like ’em have been ...