Hair Metal Bands

Updated Jan 15 2023

From Alias to Zebra, all of the Hair Bands you could ever want to listen to.

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What are Hair Bands?

Hair Bands, or Hair Metal Bands, was the term given to the guitar-driven rock bands of the 1980s. Some popular hair bands include Motley Crue and Poison. Hair Metal is the name of the genre itself.

How many 80s Hair Bands were there?

By our estimation, there were 177 hair metal bands in the 1980s and early, early 1990s. Here they are below.

A few were supergroups from other groups, some were solo artists that took a break from their bigger bands, and some, such as Richie Sambora and Kane Roberts were lead guitar players who tried to carve out their own niche.

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