If there is one decade that has to come to define the excesses of rock stardom, its the 1980s. From the colossal chart-topping, stadium-filling success of hair metal to the birth of hardcore and rise of thrash in the underground that would lay the seeds for countless extreme subgenres from black and death metal to grindcore, the 80s were a time where it felt like anything could happen.
Rock and metal had finally hit the big time, behemoths like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden coming into their own while Ozzy Osbourne proved there was life after Sabbath. But what of those bands that didn't get their time in the spotlight?
