The case of this band is quite interesting because they went from heavy metal to a more pop-oriented sound. A few years later ...

New Wave Of British Heavy Metal inspired haymakers before the band’s MTV fame ... Metal] that was happening at that time in the early 80s. We kind of gravitated to that. Just as musicians ...

KNAC was credited with exposing or launching bands that would go on to great success: Metallica, Megadeth, Soundgarden, and ...

bands like Def Leppard, Kiss, Scorpions, Whitesnake, Extreme, and Tesla are not on this list. While, yes, some of these groups made massively successful pop-tinged metal albums during the '80s ...

As the '80s progressed and the ... Some of the bands on this list tried to shake up the hair metal formula with blues, Southern rock or heavy metal elements and floundered for their efforts.

Because shortly after that show, John Ricci left the band.” As metal has a longer history in Japan with many ’80s acts adopting speed metal into their output as the genre progressed from traditional ...

While plenty of bands or artists from that decade are re-forming to make a little money off this retro obsession, other prominent groups from the '80s are still going strong. Not all we'll ...

The roots of Saxon date back to the mid-70s, and a band named S.O.B., founded by guitarist Graham Oliver and bassist Steve Dawson. Over the next few years, their line-up shifted until it settled ...