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"We played it for our label and management and they told us it would end our career": The story of the glam metal classic inspired by an unfaithful exotic dancer

Poison topped the US charts in late 1988 with a power ballad that singer Bret Michaels poured his broken heart into

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“The most musical, unique and dynamic distortion effects I’ve ever used”: Linkin Park reveal the secret weapon behind their From Zero guitar tone – and it was designed by former Poison guitarist Blues Saraceno’s dad

Do you even have a nü-metal 2.0 pedalboard if it doesn’t have a Ball Buster?

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“You're by far the best guy that we've tried. I would love to have you in the band”: So why did Trent Reznor turn down Richie Kotzen for Nine Inch Nails?

But Stanley Clarke “didn’t give a shit” what band he was in

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“Trent Reznor told me, ‘You’re by far the best guy that we’ve tried. I would love to have you in the band’”: Richie Kotzen came close to joining Nine Inch Nails – but one detail stopped him getting the gig

The former Poison guitarist aced his surprise audition but never got a call back

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Richie Kotzen says he almost joined Nine Inch Nails but his glam metal past got in the way

Trent Reznor reportedly told Richie Kotzen he was the man for the Nine Inch Nails job before backtracking

Metal Hammer

"Being sober was a real different experience from a band that was always wrecked": How Mötley Crüe cleaned up and made their biggest album

Drugged up, boozed up and almost washed up, Mötley Crüe went into rehab, came out and recorded a classic of the late-80s LA metal scene: Nikki Sixx takes us back

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“We knew listeners usually wanted a memorable song rather than an insane guitar solo or riff, but we wanted to be extreme”: Jason Becker and Marty Friedman on their wild ride making Cacophony’s Go Off! – one of the Eighties’ most in-your-face shred albums

With dreams of being the next Poison or Whitesnake, two young shred virtuosos took their songwriting to the next level for their 1988 Shrapnel Records classic

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Poison plan 2026 comeback

Poison are planning to make a comeback in 2026 after frontman Bret Michaels has taken time off to "recharge the batteries".

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“It’s the metal tour of 2025, so don’t miss out!” Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine add North American dates to Poisoned Ascendancy world tour; August Burns Red, Sylosis and Bleed From Within supporting

One of 2025’s most exciting tour packages is going stateside, with some stellar support acts added in

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Bret Michaels Plans Poison 40Th Anniversary Tour In 2026

Bret Michaels of Poison plans a potential 40th-anniversary tour in 2026, focusing on health and diabetes management. Fans eagerly await the reunion tour.

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Bret Michaels plots 40th anniversary Poison reunion in 2026

Bret Michaels hopes classic lineup can get together for 40 dates to celebrate four decades of Poison

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“When we recorded Tears Don’t Fall, I passed out. On the take, you can hear a scream, and then this dropping body”: How Bullet For My Valentine stepped up to metal’s big league with The Poison

The rollercoaster story behind Bullet For My Valentine’s classic 2005 debut album The Poison

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“I feel so proud of what we’ve achieved as a band in the last two decades, and it all started with that debut album”: Bullet For My Valentine to release 20th anniversary edition of The Poison, featuring bonus songs and Live At Brixton album

The reissue comes in a 4LP boxset stacked with Bullet For My Valentine-themed goodies

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“I had fights on the street. Guys couldn’t handle it. It was a challenge to them, especially as we would get girls”: how Poison took glam metal to the extreme with Look What The Cat Dragged In

Poison’s 1986 debut album Look What The Cat Dragged In is a killer glam metal album. But not everybody loved it

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"There was almost a Mafiosi-style meeting about me joining them": Richie Kotzen looks back on life in Poison, Mr Big, the Winery Dogs and more

Richie Kotzen has just arrived in Europe for a lengthy tour, with UK dates in July

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine announce extra Ascendancy / The Poison 2025 tour dates, plus stellar support act

The metalcore heroes will be playing their classic albums in full to mark their 20th anniversaries

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“Jack loved that a kid like me, with a blue mohawk and plaid guitar, was making the songs my own – playing Cream and doing divebombs in the corner”: Blues Saraceno toured with Clapton’s Cream bandmates, recorded for Cher and had a bumpy ride with Poison

The ‘kid who replaced Clapton’ as a teenager and landed a double-salary stint with Poison moved into TV, movies and videogame soundtracks – and doesn’t plan to come back

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Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine clear Instagram profiles, post Ascendancy and The Poison album covers – are they teasing something special?

Two of metalcore’s leading lights have posted their classic 2005 albums on social media, and we think something’s up

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“It was down to Slash and C.C. DeVille – I don’t even think they even tried anybody else out. They wanted to go in a glammier direction, and C.C. fit that style”: Matt Smith was Poison’s original guitarist – and helped to choose his successor

Inspired to pick up the guitar by Aerosmith, Poison’s original Strat-wielder answered an ad that read, ‘Theatrical band looking for a guitar player.’ But after the group moved to L.A., things didn’t work out the way he planned

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Poison rocker Bret Michaels, 60, shares his life lessons: 'Cold beer makes good friends'

DETROIT — At 60, Bret Michaels says he's like a classic muscle car.

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"We had to die" - A history of The Grunge Wars, told by those who were there

Three decades ago, GN’R’s Use Your Illusion and Nirvana’s Nevermind were released just two weeks apart, setting two musical cultures against each other. We asked combatants from both sides: who won the war?

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Silverhead could have been huge: instead they imploded from a mix of class-A chemicals and "mad, decadent sex"

British glam rockers Silverhead provided the musical template for Hanoi Rocks, Mötley Crüe and Poison, and in frontman Michael Des Barres they gave Hollywood a star

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10 unexpectedly brilliant metal covers of 2000s pop songs

From Children Of Bodom covering Britney to Dillinger Escape Plan covering Justin Timberlake, these are ten surprising times metal did noughties pop and pulled it off

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It’s hairmageddon! Is the leather-codpieced world of glam metal making a comeback?

Set fire to your drumsticks and crank the dry ice up to 11. The bands that once ruled metal may be returning to the throne. But is there more to glam than loud riffs, spandex and debauchery?

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Poison frontman Bret Michaels hospitalized for ‘unforeseen medical complication’ just before Nashville performance

Poison frontman Bret Michaels says “an unforeseen medical complication” led to him being hospitalized Thursday shortly before the band was scheduled to take the stage in Nashville, Tennessee.

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