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Glam Metal Pop Metal Or Hair Metal Is A Sub-Genre Of Rock Music That Arose In The Late 1970s And Early 1980s In The United States. It Was A Dominant Genre In Popular Rock Music Throughout The 1980s Starting In 1983. It Has Hard Rock/heavy Metal Guitar Riffs And Solos Upbeat Pop Melodies And Catchy Poppy Choruses And Lyrics About Stuff Like Love Sex And Passion. Often Confused As A Fashion The Look Of Glam Metal Was Bright Colored Makeup Red Or Punk Lipstick Painted Nails Long And Really Fluffy Hair Headbands And Skin-Tight Denim And Leather Or Crazy Costumes. The Style Was Pioneered By Quiet Riot With Their Album Named Metal Health Which Was Sold In 1983 And Got Lots Of Popularity. Other Glam Metal Bands Include Poison Ratt Bon Jovi LA Guns And Kix. Mötley Crüe First Began As Simply Heavy Metal But Became Glam Metal With Their Album Titled Theatre Of Pain. The Genre Lost All Its Popularity In 1991 When Grunge/alternative Rock Bands Like Nirvana And Soundgarden Came Into The Mainstream. Today Some Bands Have Brought Back The Glam Metal Style. Some Of These Bands Are Black Veil Brides Who Originally Were Melodic Metalcore But Went Glam Metal With Their Second Album Named Set The World On Fire With Songs Like Rebel Love Song And Love Isn't Always Fair. Other Bands Are Steel Panther And The Darkness. Blessed By A Broken Heart One Of These Bands Sometimes Fused Glam Metal With Metalcore. Falling In Reverse Another One Of These Bands Have Also Played Easycore. Some Bands In Glam Metal Have Been Mislabeled As Glam Metal For Their Look Or For When They Were Popular. Some Of These Bands Were Guns 'N Roses Who Were Simply Hard Rock. Another Is Twisted Sister Who Aren't Upbeat Or Poppy At All Sound More Like Bands Like Ozzy Osbourne And Dio And Don't Even Have Any Romantic Or Sexual Lyrics And Are Just Metal. KISS Is Another One. However They Were Glam Metal From 1983-1989. The Genre Was Also Referred To Often By Detractors As Hair Metal. This Term Was Popularized By MTV In The 1990s And Derives From The Tendency Amongst Most Bands To Style Their Long Hair. The Genre Has Enjoyed Revivals Since The Beginning Of The New Millennium With A Lot Of New Bands Especially In Sweden Finland And The US. Glam-Metal Every artist, every band, and every song you can imagine, from the newest to the oldest, are easily accessible through Frogtoon Music. Get ready to indulge yourself and allow the music to enrich your soul, ignite your passion, awaken your emotions, and bring back some beautiful memories. The following is a directory of top artists and bands from Glam Metal: As you visit their pages, you will be presented with a list of popular videos, top tracks, recommended mixes, and music from all the albums they released. In addition, within each page, you can access and discover music from similar artists and bands.

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