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Guitar World
Guitar World
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Andrew Daly

10 last-gasp hair metal guitar albums that arrived before the grunge armageddon

Michael Kelly Smith

Hair metal was a wild party, with seemingly every blond-haired voicebox pairing up with their very own enigmatic six-stringer as they prepared to stake their claim amongst the posturing masses. 

In the ’80s, hair metal had its way, with its Spandex-loving perpetrators riding high throughout the decade. But as the genre entered the ’90s, seemingly overnight, it was no longer chic to clad oneself in ripped fishnets, neon-colored platforms and leopard print denim.

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