The best 80s metal bassists often represent a very underrated area of the genre. Bassists in general don’t get a lot of attention in music, although they often have a peculiar role in metal.

Trivium's Ascendancy and Bullet For My Valentine's The Poison were released eight months apart. They would become instant ...

With such famous names as David Lee Roth, Axl Rose, Bret Michaels , Dee Snider, Jon Bon Jovi and Sebastian Bach hair metal boasted some of the greatest frontmen to ever step behind a mic. But who was ...

Here are the highest selling albums from some of the biggest metal bands. The disparity among the names on this list is eye-popping. Metallica's self-titled "black album' alone, for example ...

he was a dyed-in-the-wool extreme metal fan. As a kid growing up in the 80s, he was introduced to bands such as Kiss and Mötley Crüe by his older brother, Sebastian, but he soon discovered ...

Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson reflected on the time they toured with Mötley Crüe in the 1980s in a new interview. Read his remarks.

Hair metal — that dreaded colloquialism for the commercial, party-hearty hard rock that dominated the airwaves in the '80s — is known ... era's biggest and best bands also had great singers ...