But, here’s the thing: just because grunge kicked down the glam metal door with a muddy Doc Marten boot doesn’t mean the hair metal heroes of the 1980s went quietly into the night. Nope! Some of them ...

Sometimes what we remember about a previous era is wrong. You might think that grunge wiped the map with the leftover spandex of a Poison video. The rise of alternative rock certainly changed the ...

Father Time has a flawless record. It’s a cliché you typically hear when sportscasters talk about aging athletes, but often it can apply to music genres as well. After all, we aren’t still listening ...

In a recent interview with VWMusic, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard was asked his thoughts on the frequent claim that grunge killed off heavy metal and hard rock in the mainstream. Gossard’s answer, ...

Even though grunge is regarded as the music that brought glam metal’s popularity to an end, Poison's Bret Michaels doesn’t hold a grudge toward any of the genre’s artists. While many fans and ...

Former Iron Maiden singer Blaze Bayley believes that grunge music and its fans were “trying to kill” the metal icons during the '90s. Bayley fronted Maiden from 1994-99, during grunge’s mainstream ...

"I've been told how influential King's X has been by almost every musician I've run into, but very few will make a big statement about it" “It was really, really, really, really so cool for him to say ...

“Nevermind” was released one week after "Use Your Illusion.' Pearl Jam’s “Ten” came came out the same month as Metallica’s so-called “Black Album.” Grunge was blowing up in 1991, but hadn’t wrestled ...

What qualified as metal in 1995 was a grab bag for sure. After the fallout from the popularity of grunge, metal went back underground but was poised for a return led by nu metal. While not all of ...

When grunge exploded in the early '90s, it left the '80s hair metal scene in the dust — but the best grunge song by these five hair metal bands shows that some groups managed to adapt to the times ...