The hair, or glam, metal bands of the 1980s remain one of the true guilty pleasures in music history. The hair spray, makeup, and catchy pop tunes touched up with distortion were made for MTV.

Back in the 1980s, metal was going through a strange, yet extremely compelling time. On one side, you had bands seeking to be the fastest and heaviest they could ever be, with the Big Four leading the ...

So, in our first “Into the Mailbag” we look at a comment from Angus B on our piece about metal bands that got lumped in with ...