People often talk about second album syndrome, and the pressures that follow a great first record. Often it can overshadow conversation around the debut itself: “Brilliant album… shame about the ...

Our list of the 11 best hair metal debut albums shows just how much diversity existed within a subgenre that was too often maligned by critics as one-dimensional fluff. Granted, hair metal — or glam ...

Metal changed forever in the 1990s. Where glam and thrash had dominated the second half of the 80s, the new decade would see them swept aside by a host of new scenes, some of which had their roots in ...