The Best Hair of the 80’s Hair Metal Bands

  Blabbermouth.net: Bob Nalbandian, founder and publisher of the esteemed early ’80s heavy metal music fanzine The Headbanger, has struck a deal with Tokyo-based company Japanime Publishing to release all 11 issues of the Xeroxed ‘zine as ebooks. Never before has the fanzine — which featured early interviews of local and international heavy metal bands,…

  Hello again 80’s Metal lovin’ friends. Today is a big-time landmark day because today in 1986, METALLICA released what many consider the greatest metal record of the 80’s and maybe of all-time, ‘Master of Puppets.’   Rolling Stone notes the album still sounds as powerful today as it does fearless. It was also written…

  Dokken rocked the house with a blistering set… playing all their hits, including: ‘Just Got Lucky,’ ‘In My Dreams’ and ‘Alone Again.’ Special thanks to the House of Blues and Trisha for making this happen for METAL SHOP. Here are some pictures of the show, enjoy -Ralph.   [print_gllr id=1770]

In some cases the crowds and revenues have rivaled those of the 1980s.   Ratt and Poison just wrapped up a long, large-venue summer tour where they played regularly before 8,000 to 10,000 fans.   “When I’m 60 and some cool grandpa dude, I’ll be rocking.” -RATT’s Stephen Pearcy Read More  

  Welcome to a Wednesday 80’s Metal Dogs! Sometimes I do miss my mullet. I started growing it around 1985 and now I can’t grow anything, but bald is beautiful too 🙂   The term “supergroup” gets thrown around on a regular basis these days, however, a new tour featuring some of the greatest guitarists…

  Good Day Metal Dogs! After making our mandatory time lurch this past weekend, I think I am finally back on track. Daylight savings time can be eliminated anytime and I would be okay with that.   Has BRIAN JOHNSON been ‘kicked to the curb’ by AC/DC? That’s the claim by comedian and friend of…