As one of pop metal's most prominent and trashiest prototypes, LA's Motley Crue consistently lived up to a fearsome reputation for self-destructiveness and ...

In late 1986 the rising pop metal genre pioneered by L.A. bands such as Motley Crue and Ratt as well as British rockers Def Leppard was gaining steam and ...

This underrated rocker marks the transitional point between Def Leppard the full-tilt hard rock band and the latter-day pop metal outfit to come. ...

As one of pop metal's most successful acts of the '80s, Motley Crue thrived in the MTV generation as a photogenic glam metal quartet that was unique in its ...

But at heart the band was pure melodic pop metal, and Coverdale must have salivated at the continuing rise of popularity of the power ballad during the ...

Origins: Hair metal grew out of the dirty streets of Los Angeles, ... Once fully realized, hair metal bore little resemblance to any form of its partial ...

After all, while Def Leppard certainly qualifies as one of the best hard rock, arena rock and pop metal bands in rock music history, the band doesn't hold ...

As arguably pop metal’s finest and most accessible band of the '80s, Bon Jovi churned out a number of arena rock classics, combining a straightforward, ...

In the five or so years that this quintessential glam pop metal band occupied a portion of the zeitgeist, audiences came to expect a fairly vapid, ...

Dokken was one of the few bands popular during the mid- to late-'80s pop metal explosion that truly earned the designation of an actual heavy metal band, ...