As the ’80s came to a close and a new decade dawned, it was obvious that the heavy music landscape needed — and had begun to ...

Hard rock as a genre is difficult to pin down ... VH1 ranked it 47th on their list of the 100 greatest 80s songs. In 1985, ...

THE WEEK’S MOST POPULAR CURRENT HARD ROCK SONGS ACROSS ALL GENRES, RANKED BY STREAMING ACTIVITY DATA BY ONLINE MUSIC SOURCES TRACKED BY LUMINATE, RADIO AIRPLAY AUDIENCE IMPRESSIONS AS MESURED BY ...

Singer Axl Rose emerged with Guns N' Roses just when rock needed him, with late-'80s music dominated by safe pop-metal and synthy dance music. GNR reshaped hard rock in their image on their 1987 ...

The presence of MTV helped numerous hard rock and various genre of metal acts enjoy mainstream success through their music videos. Whether conceptual, performance-based or even surrealistic ...