The 1980s and early 90s saw many hard rock bands often nicknamed “Hair Metal” bands because of the amount of hair, usually hairsprayed and poofed up, many of these bands but not all also crossed over into being called...
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The 1980s and early 90s saw hard rock and heavy metal go mainstream and reach a large audience worldwide. The genre was split into sub-genres like Hard Rock, Glam Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM, Traditional Metal, and more....
A little over two years ago the Bulletboys announced a reunion of the original band members and were said to be working on new music together. While there haven’t been any new singles or albums released, the band did...
India Has One Of The Best Current Hair Metal Bands With Girish And The Chronicles: Listen Here!

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Frontiers Music Srl is pleased to announce the release of “Hail To The Heroes“, the upcoming new album from India’s Girish And The Chronicles on February 11, 2022. The new single and video, ‘Primeval Desire‘ is out now. Pre-order/save “Hail To The Heroes” HERE: https://orcd.co/gatcStream or download the...
During the 80’s hard rock ruled the airwaves. Quiet Riot’s Metal Health became the first #1 metal album of all time. Soon after the scene exploded with bands like Motley Crue, Guns N’ Roses, Dokken, Ratt, Warrant, Poison, and...
The 1980s saw heavy metal go mainstream and reach a large audience worldwide. The genre was split into sub-genres like Glam Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM, Traditional Metal and more. Regardless of which sub-genre you preferred, there was...
The 1980s saw heavy metal go mainstream and reach a large audience worldwide. The genre was split into sub-genres like Glam Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM, Traditional Metal, and more. Regardless of which sub-genre you preferred, there was...
Seriously…How Many People Thought At Least Some Of The Band Members In Poison Were Female At First?

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Okay, let’s talk about this for a minute. I seriously can’t be the only guy that thought at least one of the band members was a girl when this album first came out. Back in August of 1986, Poison...
One of XS ROCK’s most popular articles has been our article on 25 Great Hard Rock Albums Of The ’80s That You Might Have Missed. So popular in fact, that we now present the second round of “Great Hard...
On March 22nd, Netflix premiered “The Dirt”, the biopic about the infamous and sordid details of lives of Motley Crue. Having read the book, I was curious how they were going to fit everything into a two hour movie. ...