I always said the sound grunge in the 90s was like waking up the next day with the hang over from the partying in the 80s.

Calling it “hair metal” probably helped too...

why do everybody act like they didn't enjoy hair metal.

Heroin and cocaine killed hair metal

Once Pantera made the change, there was never going back.

Hair Metal ended because of the ridiculous lifestyles they lived. Don't get me wrong, I like hair metal but if they didn't do all that controversial stuff in their lives people wouldn't have deserted Hair Metal.

I didn't screw Hair Metal. Bret Hart screwed Hair Metal.

"Hair Metal" wasn't even a term that we used back then. That genre of music was either called "Glam Metal" or just lumped in generically with "Heavy Metal". Back then, my friends and I usually referred to the bands as "Glam bands". It is a complete myth that Grunge "killed" Glam Metal. The truth is that the genre was already waning by the time Nirvana and Pearl Jam hit, and even then it didn't just automatically die, but it was on life support and people just lost interest in hearing basically the same formulated three songs being put out by every band in the scene. Also, there was a lot of tripe like "Trixter", which was basically the "New Kids on The Block" with guitars. It just became formulated, predictable, corporate, bloated, pompous, egotistical and pretty boring. Like all scenes, Glam Metal just ran its course, and for what it's worth it had a good long run. By that time, a lot of us had already moved on to stuff like like Faith No More, Jane's Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers, even renewed interest in bands like the Ramones and the Misfits. Nirvana, Pearl Jam, et al was just the next logical progression from the transitional bands we were already listening to.

To be a teen in the 80s was the greatest. Graduated in 87 and started playing guitar in 85 as a result of seeing a garage band kick the shit out of Over The Mountain by Ozzy. 2 weeks later I had my first guitar, a Charvel model 2, and 30 plus yrs later, I still love tons of distortion, reverb, and delay. Steve

This video hits the nail on the head. The record industry couldn't wait to dump these bands and the grunge thing provided that opportunity. Those grunge bands were real cheap to promote and didn't have any of the controversy. But, only a few of them were actually worth listening to. The music industry has never appreciated any form of heavy metal from day one. Yet, it just keeps rearing it's ugly head and flashing its black toothed grin right back at them. Ozzfest is what proved to the world that heavy metal didn't die, despite every effort by the industry to kill it.

If it was grunge, then grunge killed itself.

And Grunge died even faster than Hair Metal (glam in general)

Over-saturation and usually a certain genre only last about 10 years. Had nothing to do with Grunge. Most Metal was dead before Grunge. What also helped kill it was MTV changed it's format to mostly Hip Hop/Rap as well. Honestly that did it more than any other music.

In my opinion, there are a number of factors that killed Hair Metal 1. Guns N' Roses' Appetite For Destruction album. While they did have some Hair trademarks when it came to fashion, their music was much more raw and organic. In a Hair Metal song, every instrument (especially the drums) sounded artificial, in a GNR song, they sounded more realistic. 2. The Thrash Metal scene. Bands like Slayer, Anthrax, Megadeth, and Metallica provided some escapism from mainstream Rock 3. Everybody deluding themselves into thinking that Kurt Cobain was a prophet or genius of some sorts

I graduated high school in 1981 and the top songs in my senior year were from AC/DC and Pink Floyd. It went from the Jimmy Carter era to the Reagan era. L.A. and then Huntington Beach developed a great punk scene. Real metal bands like Black Sabbath, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden were popular throughout the decade. Glam metal as it was known didn't develop overnight. KISS helped create it. KISS went after girls and had a huge ballad with the song "Beth." Cheap Trick and Aerosmith could also be counted as ancestors of 80s glam metal. Motley Crue came out as a dark heavy metal band before it went hair metal. Then bands like Poison and Cinderella came out with girl's make up and huge hits. Other bands started imitating them. Def Leppard, which was a NWOBHM band, was one of the bands that changed their sound to increase popularity. On the other side of glam metal, there were some great guitar bands, many influenced by Van Halen. Dokken, Stryper, Mr. Big, Ratt and Winger featured top notch guitar players and their songs can still be listened to today. On the harder side of metal there was Ozzy, the Scorpions and thrash bands Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth and Anthrax. In Southern California we used to listen to them on KMET and then KNAC. Then came Guns N Roses with a grittier hair metal that was proficient, listenable, and a rejection of the effeminate hair bands. A lot of guys turned away from the Poisons and Cinderellas. I couldn't stand listening to them myself and always liked the harder bands more. Grunge came out, but Metallica and the other thrash bands were as popular as ever. Pantera pretended its old catalog of hair metal didn't exist, although it was a lot harder and more serious than the effeminate glam bands, and went from sounding like Judas Priest to groove metal. Meanwhile, KMET became The Wave and KNAC became a Mexican station. The big music corporations started pushing hip hop and ditched a lot of the hair bands except for a handful. Van Halen, Def Leppard, and Bon Jovi survived. Metallica, Megadeth and Slayer kept putting out top notch thrash, but Anthrax decided to become a grunge band. Meanwhile, industrial and death metal started growing in popularity. It wasn't grunge that killed hair metal. Grunge was an antidote. Hair metal was unserious, effeminate, and nauseating sex fantasy music. Grunge was serious and realistic, and its music hearkened back to Sabbath and Zeppelin. It was just better.

Hair Metal killed itself. The genre at some point was just flooded with 3rd rate copies of big names like Mötley Crüe, Def Leppard, Bon Jovi or Poison.🤔

I will always love hair metal

Appetite for Destruction delivered the first blow to glam metal, the Black Album knee-capped it, Nevermind shot it in the head, and then Ten danced on its grave.

The LA Scene looked badass in the 80s, Hollywood sunset strip to be specific. My pop wasn’t a part of the scene cus he was a rockabilly/50s/Stray Cats dude however he did party up there several times. He said it was fun and the girls back then with the chacha hair we’re gorgeous. His buddies in the greaser rock n roll crew also appreciated bands like Mötley Crüe, Ratt and Poison. It was party music, who doesn’t like to have a. Good time. I don’t care what anybody says, it has its fans and you’re gonna have to deal with it. They have great music too just go look for it! I find it ironic how people always shoot down hair metal because of the image, but yet they listen and praise DAVID BOWIE, ELTON JOHN, FREDDIE MERCURY AND MARC BOWLEN.??? Hair metal came from those guys!

Just watch the VH1 mini-series "Heavy; The Story Of Metal". Episode 3; Looks That Kill will explain it perfectly.

Dude, those eyes, they pierce into my soul.

Concerning the point made at 8:07, ahhhhhhhhh what about Warlock, Vixen, and The Runaways?

Nice now do what 'killed' rock in the 2000's

What killed Hair Metal was that Penelope Spheeris documentary. Now your next video should be what killed grunge, seeing as it'd life span was only half of Glam Metal's.

Fortunately Duff stayed alive 🙏🙏🤘🔥

The "Hair Metal" era, roughly '83 to '92 or so, represents the last time Heavy Metal was truly relevant. It represents the last time rock was culturally 'dangerous' and also fun as a genre - when rockstars still roamed the Earth.

Stones surviving the 60s and going into 70s wasn’t all, dude they outlived about every other band. They’ve always been there as long since the Beatles “changed” rock and outlived them.

I know the host is young, but Guns n Roses was not really part of the Glam band scene-- They were what helped kill glam

1. MTV (+ other music video channels) - stopped playing Glam Rock music videos. 2. Rolling Stone (+ other magazines) - stop covering Glam bands. 3. Aside from Alternative Rock, other forms of Metal started stealing fans in the late 80's & early 90's like Thrash & Death Metal & the European Black Metal scene. 4. By 1995 is was all about Rap-Metal & Nu Metal, like Rage Against The Machine, Limp Biskit, Korn & Deftones.

I'm a huge fan of 80s metal and 80s music as a whole and being only 27, I obviously wasn't around when hair bands where huge but from what I've been told by other metalheads by that era. The market was already being completley oversaturated with hair bands by 1989-1990 and most music fans were beginning to get sick of it, which is why when Nirvana hit the scene around '92, it offered something new and fresh to the table and it really marked the end of "the 80s" as a whole and the birth of the 90s as we know colloquially. The thing that I have always taken issue with was not "the death of hair metal and the rise of grunge" it was the fact that when hair metal died, it took traditonal metal down with it. By 93-94, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, and Dio were having major issues selling tickets for their shows, playing to half-empty venues (albiet there were lineup changes in those bands that didnt help matters much). Van Halen was probably one of the few bands completley unaffected by rise of grunge as Live Right Here Right Now and Balance sold huge, in fact Balance (released in 1995) was their fourth consecutive No. 1 album. And speaking of Van Halen, after Grunge's fall around 1995-1996, that's when you had this sudden demand for 70s nostalgia as the 80s was regarded as "outdated" but the 70s were considered "vintage". That's when the reunions of 70s bands started to take hold, KISS reunited, Styx reunited, Yes reunited, and Van Halen ATTEMPTED to reunite.... Another thing that always bugged me as a metalhead is the fact that there were and still are MANY great metal bands from the 1980s that are being unfairly mislabled as hair metal simply due to the clothes they wore, one of the most flagrant examples being Queensryche. The only time I hear Queen Of The Reich, Walk In The Shadows, Jet City Woman, or Eyes Of A Stranger being played on the radio, they're part of the "hairspray" special. There was one time that Hair Nation played Unskinny Bop followed by Eyes of A Stranger...In what universe are those two songs the same genre?

the balding destroy hair metal!!

80's hair metal wasn't the most Sex-Drugs-n-Rock and roll version of Rock. I don't know if there was any period that stood above the rest, since every era was drowning in it; But there's a good argument to be made for the late 60's/early 70's hippy scene might take the cake, since there were almost no sober musicians, all the big drugs were prevalent, and the audience was probably a higher percentage of users, and it was the free love generation. Punk and Grunge both made good efforts to be less sex-driven,/sexist, but both were full of drugs. But if any era wins, it's by an inch

Hair Metal imploded from it's own sheer ridiculousness; and the shallow, sappy ballads didn't help either.

There was also a rap group running around called NWA who brought a new type of urban sound which took off like a ....

I love HAIR-METAL!...if you didn’t experience it, you just won’t get it. FOREVER 80s!!!!!!!!!!.

I will always love hair metal, anyone ever feel like Loudwire is the IGN of rock music

nothing killed hair metal actually. it's still alive. I listen to hair bands every day, still buy their records and still buy tickets to their shows, 30 years later.

Good music survive the test of time. Never died. The 90s was a hard decade for almost all metal bands from the 80s not only glam metal. But in the 2000s recovered form

Nothing killed hair metal, it still rocks

I can't believe the 2 actual murderers of hair metal have not been mentioned. They relentlessly did it on MTV every single day.

As one who started my teens in the hair metal genre and ended my teens in the grunge era...I agree with a lot of what's been said here. If I could expand on a point or two I'd talk more about MTV and how powerful that medium was concerning style, culture and even lifestyle decisions. When MTV started airing the hair metal guys we loved it, but soon realized we couldn't "be" it. There was no way that the vast majority of us are going to dress in leopard print, tease our hair to the sky, wear makeup and bang 3 different chicks per night. So it along with the music & the message both artist and MTV were preaching - it turns out it was fleeting. Then grunge comes around and we thought not only can we "be" it...We are it. Disenfranchised by the shallow empty excess of Poison, Winger, Nelson and alike, suddenly we see that being pissed-off & dressing like a lumberjack in July was achievable. Eventually it died out as well because grunge as it turns out was excess too. If suicide didn't get you then the overdose on black tar heroin probably will. In the end I grew up, I enjoy both genres. Oddly enough, It's not uncommon for me to crank "Nothin but a Good Time" on one day and "Pennyroyal Tea" the next. Are both the hair and grunge genres dead? To many - yes. But not in my speakers - nor in my heart.

Way to many mediocre bands were inked to deals. Bands that had no ❤. Stale imitatators.

Just a lot of softer ballads in the 80’s that didn’t resonate with the fans who wanted things to stay heavy, so when heavier bands like Pantera and Alice In Chains emerged, around the same time that the “Big Four” of thrash broke into the mainstream, there was no going back for hair metal.

Late 2000’s crabcore/crunkcore was basically a hair metal influenced scene CHANGE MY MIND

the real question is Who else killed Kurt Cobain?

I remember in the early 90's when Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, STP, Nirvana, Candlebox - bands I still like, were getting big. I was still buying new Skid Row, Motley Crue, Cinderella, Tesla, LA Guns in the early 90's. Good music never dies. I've never been fad oriented in my music buying. Alice In Chains still makes really good albums, but they're not as popular as they once were. I think most people who buy music, unfortunately, are into whatever they feel is new or hip at the time.

The tabloid story is Nirvana showed up and killed hair metal. The real story is that Nirvana was just one of many underground alternative rock bands in the mid/late 80s that WAS NOT influenced by Aerosmith, Zeppelin and that scene AT ALL. Grunge was a hybrid of punk and heavy metal, new wave and post punk bands like Sonic Youth, Violent Femmes, Dinasour Jr and even R.E.M. Before Nirvana released their debut album Bleach in 1989, bands JUST LIKE THEM had created the grunge scene already from 83-ish, so Nirvana really just polished the sound and made hit songs and when they released Nevermind, the hair metal scene was already dead. Grunge didn`t kill hair metal. Guns n Roses did it almost by themselves in 1988 but because of the insane success Nirvana got over-night in 1991, it looks like they flipped the table all alone. But look at the numbers. Guns n Roses released Apetite for Destruction in 1987. That`s 4 years before Nevermind. Nirvana was already late to the party! Keep in mind: Bleach, Nirvana`s debut album is grunge at it`s core but it didn`t sell much. It was too dark for the mainstream. Nevermind was a polished grunge album and was a mainstream album for the mainstream audience. And as always, mainstream sells because ordinary people don`t like to get challenged by music. If grunge really would have killed hair metal, Bleach would have done it or the alternative rock and post punk scene looong before Nirvana showed up. But it didn`t. Why? Because it was already dead when Nevermind was released! The timing of the release was perfect. The table was cleaned. They could just waltz right in and take over because hair metal left a big space for another genre to fill.

Saying that even ballads were easy to make shows you aren’t a musician. What seems easy, is still hard

It was an amazing genre, catchy riffs, virtuoso guitarists and amazing singers. People only hated it since it had "metal" attached to it.

This video somehow didn't get into some of the real reasons ... the scene got over-saturated and too many bands were getting signed, all with expensive tours, promotion, production and videos. A lot of the material was getting overproduced and losing its grittiness. There were a few notable exceptions like Skid Row's Slave to the Grind where bands actually were getting ahead of the problem. But it didn't help them for long as the the bubble was still due to be burst and right or wrong they would get lumped in with the naive bands still doing the cheesy/ballad/pop way. But in this case, the bubble didn't burst but instead there was a systematic plan to pop the bubble by MTV and the record companies. Kiefer's recollection of dealing with the record company midway through Heartbreak Station illustrate this.

Guns N’ Roses killed hair metal

The best Hair metal power ballads came after its stopped being popular. Like more than words, to be with you, and love is only a feeling by the darkness.

The Black Album had a pretty big part to play in it

7:31 trashed hotel rooms was invented by Keith Moon by The Who

80's rock star: Dies from a happy excess of drugs or alcohol. 90's rock star: Dies from excess depression.

80’s bands rule. 🤘🏼

Hair metal was great, like every band was amazing.

Hair metal was great but the talent roster of bands wasn’t that deep. There were like maybe 15 good bands at it’s commercial height and only around 5 great ones. Everyone else we’re just copy cats looking for a quick cash grab

I'd also add Acid House and the second summer of love, but also the corporate cooption of indie bands like The Stone Roses, The Inspiral Carpets, Pulp, Suede, Blur , Elastica and Oasis to the mix.

what killed the 70's, 80's, 90,s, 00's? the fact that its a business move to drop your artists and promote something new. The music industry doesn't care about the artist they care about money. That's the reality of it. I hear artists from the end of every decade say the same thing, they just weren't getting the same support anymore (gig, music and merch advertising)

Grunge didn't kill 1980s metal, the markets industry & excess did + the new gen.-times change the music & its meaning doesn't it only evolves.

Oof the word kill and a pic of Kurt Cobain might not go well together

To me it seems like GnR came along and were such better musicians and song writers than hair bands that came before them, they kind of blew up the hair metal scene, much the same way Pantera blew up the thrash scene. I remember when GnR put out Illusion I & II remarking to my buddy they were trying to be as big as the Beatles. And he said "They're doing a pretty good job so far." They had transcended the subgenre of hair metal.

Don’t exactly agree with what he said about Steve Clark. He continuously struggled with depression even throughout Def Leppard’s success. His drinking/drug consumption was more escapist than celebratory. I wouldn’t say he in any way exemplifies the hallmarks of hair metal. From his modest personality to his toned down playing focusing more on feel than technical prowess

I think hip hop killed glam metal as much as grunge. Grunge cleared the slate, but rap was already bubbling to the surface as the next big commercial genre.

Why that second cam on the angle of your host? How do you want us to connect if he doesn't even look at us? Don't mind me though, I'm annoyed right now. Going through a rough time because I can't punch Trump and boy oh boy do I need this.

Great video! how did bands like Good Charlotte, simple plan, AFI come to be

R.i.p. rock n roll 1954-2010

yet def leppard with Adrenalize destroyed grunge and Nirvana nevermind, also hair metal was already changing, by 1989 or late 80s in general, the scene was moving to a 70s blues hard rock sound, with bands like badlands, skid row and Guns 'n' roses and in Europe, 80s metal never went away, Europe in the 90s was having its 80s, all hail Power Metal!

The truth glam metal era was the shamest moment on the 80s because everybody a simple garage rock band was taken like glam just with the hairstyle just mötley crüe have a different Sound for that reason two examples of change Alice in chains and pantera both glam metal bands change of decade and change everything with this two a groove metal band and the other a grunge with pulish sound

I worked at a record store from 88 - 92 and hair metal was one of the biggest trends during that time. What I saw that killed hair metal was: All hair metal all the time - everything became hair metal. Most hard rock or metal bands got a makeover and a producer would adapt the sound. Overcrowding - There were A LOT of hair metal bands that have been missed/forgotten. It seemed every week we got the debut from a new band. Impossible for new bands to get a foothold. Bands got ambitious or creative well ran dry - If a band had at least 2 successful albums, by the early 90's one of two things happened. Either they had "writers block" ...interpret as you see fit or they decided they were AN ARTISTE! They put out new music that was above their ability or at least too far outside their comfort zone. Too much too soon - the bands that influenced the hair metal bands had years of experience before their debut. Van Halen had 4 years between formation and debut. Motley Crue had a couple years but all members had a few years experience on top of that. The later bands barely had a full set written when they debuted and not used to playing together. A Lot of it wasn't very good - This is really subjective, but some of these bands either were not ready for a major label deal or were just not very good. Either way they ended up dragging everything else down.

Pop Metal, Glam Metal, Hair Metal, Teeth Metal... call it however you want, some bands still managed to produced a few catchy feel good songs, and I don't think anyone ever asked them to do more than that. The whole thing simply blew out of proportion thanks to/because of MTV. Had the network been a lot more open minded back then, heavier forms of metal could have shared more of the spotlight. I agree it was very formulaic, but every genre become formulaic after a certain point, musically and/or lyrically tbh. Sebastian Bach even gave a quite cynical interview once, in which he explained the formula (can't recall exactly but I think it was along the lines "First a kick ass rock song or two as singles, then the ballad, and you sold 2 million records". I think he also explained it was much tougher to reach the 3 millions mark). Still, it was also a little bit more, you know, uplifting than listening to countless 2nd and 3rd wave 90's alt-rock bands singing about how the world sucks and life is shit. Ultimately, as with any wave that preceded, and any wave that followed, it was a mix of over-saturation and limited shelf-life that killed it. There's always a window-span of only a few years, and you always soon end up with a copy of a copy of the few originals. It was actually almost a miracle that 80's Pop Metal managed to last that long.

Alice in chains is more metal than hair metal

I prefer “grunge” over hair metal, hair metal really only has songs of strippers cocaine and alcohol

I don't know about you guys but I still listen to old school Queensryche.

It was glam when I was a kid. I love it. Dokken is still one of my favorites

Hair metal still kicks

I need that shirt

I don't recall Ratt putting out a stadium ballad.

And less than a decade after Grunge hit, band members started killing literally themselves whether by choice or not. Depressing music. Depressed people. No wonder that today 80's rock is more popular. The 80's bands actually had FUN!

There's no music genre as "hair metal", thats glam metal. It was popular in the 80s and people moved onto the Other genres in the early 90s. Nothing killed it, those bands are still selling out stadiums.

Hair metal isn't even metal. Whereas Alice in Chains and Soundgarden are definitive heirs of Black Sabbath. Or the Melvins for that matter.

Another problem back then is that we went from these very expensive stereos made for big sounds like Def Leppard to our PC speakers. Def Leppard did not sound as good on your PC speakers as did some more stripped down version of rock. I think that is why lower vocals also became more popular. Bring back the huge expensive stereos and you will want that high screaming with loud guitars again.

Most see grunge as the only thing that took out hair metal, but that's just one part of the pie. I argue that country had just as much to do with it. Keep in mind that an OSU marketing grad named Troyal Garth Brooks had exploded in popularity and sold albums to Beatles levels. Something even the grunge acts didn't accomplish. Even established country stars like George Strait saw booming sales. Shania Twain married producer Mutt Lange just before her popularity exploded. Country had a closer sentiment to hair metal that grunge did not. Country became party music. Compare Friends in Low Places or I Cross My Heart to something like Outshined or Heart Shaped Box.The sentiment is quite different. Some of the folks that got into hair metal also got older and probably didn't want something so heavy. It's something so rarely talked about, but needs more attention in my opinion.

Thrash also in 1990s was on life support

The first riff of Smells Like Teen spirit killed hair metal

Loving this series!!

Never understood the constant naming of sub genres of rock and metal - Nu Metal, Hair Metal, Grunge. Stoner, Sludge etc etc. Its rock or metal that's it.

Hair metal: Artists having issues with chemicals. Grunge: hold my beer. Grunge got too sanctimonious, too proud of itself cause of the p.c. attitude. And chest puffing is chest puffing, no matter what side it comes from.

What killed hair metal? TIME. What killed the 60's music? The 70's music, What killed the 70's music, the 80's music. What killed the 80's music, the 90's music and so on. Different generations have different tastes in things. These guys have no idea what they are talking because they weren't there, I was and it was the greatest times of my life and I still listen to that music and newer metal everyday. It never "died" just all the posers left, which made it disappear from the mainstream but it never really went away. Almost all the "hair" metal bands are still around and touring and having a great time, meanwhile most all of the depressing grunge bands are dead (literally).

I kinda think poison was the personification of everything wrong with hair metal. Also, it seems like nevermind gets too much credit. It's good, and vastly different than hair metal, but Pearl Jam released Ten right around that time too.

In 1996 grunge was dead and buried. Next video "WHY GRUNGE DIED SO FAST AND WHY IS SO OVERRATED BY THE AMERICAN MEDIA"

Why does Guns N Roses and Thrash Metal always get left out the things that helped killed Glam Metal? Alot of teenagers in ‘87 wanted something more harder edge. Guns N Roses brought back that feeling of songwriting and playing music. And not just fluffing your hair and how much makeup you have on.

I see Kurt Cobain, I click

Jane's Addiction hammered a few nails in the coffin as well.

I want your shirt! Where can I get one??????!!!!!!!

Appetite For Destruction

I’ll take the likes of Crüe and Dokken over Nirvana and Pearl Jam any day but Alice In Chains is better than all of ‘em! 🤘

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A lot of factors went into the Hair Metal scene falling apart. I think the big thing was that once it became THE big thing, every record label signed every Hair Metal Band that they could to capitalize on its success. Each band signed had to have the big anthemic song, followed by the sensitive ballad. By 1991, there was no difference the biggest bands and the smallest bands. While this was happening, Alternative and Heavy Metal began to rise. Jane's Addiction proved that you could be artistic, androgynous, and heavy, all while doing your own thing. The fact that they rose on the streets of Los Angeles, like almost every Hair Metal band, should've been the sign of things to come. Then, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, another Los Angeles band with a distinctly unique sound, went Gold in 1989, and followed that with their most successful and beloved album. Then, Metallica put everything together in 1989, going 5x Platinum with an artistic album where all songs were 5+ minutes long. Then came their self-titled album, which became one of the highest selling albums of all-time. You could be heavy, unique, and sell records. All of the sudden, people who love metal but hated the Hair Scene had an outlet. Then came the rise of grunge, where this little band from Seattle unseated Michael Jackson as the #1 album on the charts of 1992. All four "grunge" bands came to rise at the same time, and despite them being labeled the same genre, they sounded very different. The freedom to be yourself is something that Hair Metal couldn't offer and once the public found truly great, unique rock music, Hair Metal couldn't compete.