Grunge often gets the credit/blame for the downfall of hair metal and, while that's mostly true, it wasn't the only contributing factor, at least not according to Ratt singer Stephen Pearcy. Ratt band ...

Grunge is constantly credited with killing hair metal as the movement fully bloomed in the early '90s. Stryper's Michael Sweet, however, has a different point of view and doesn't believe this ...

In a recent conversation with Kahler Guitar And Bass Bridges, Kreator's incombustible frontman, Mille Petrozza, opened up about the band's challenging journey through the 1990s, a decade that ...

It’s easier to make sense of history by placing events into clean boxes. For example, the day Nirvana dropped “Smells Like Teen Spirit”, a bunch of hair metal bands lost their record deals. Grunge and ...

In a recent interview with VWMusic, Pearl Jam guitarist Stone Gossard was asked his thoughts on the frequent claim that grunge killed off heavy metal and hard rock in the mainstream. Gossard’s answer, ...

Bolstered by the success of Nirvana, “grunge” underwent a rapid transformation from the underground sound of the Pacific Northwest to the Next Big Thing, supplanting metal as the popular rock music of ...

The conventional wisdom of the grunge revolution goes like this: Spandex-clad hair bands lived high on the hog until 11:59 p.m. on Sept. 23, 1991. When the clock struck midnight and Nirvana‘s ...

"It didn't kill us, but it changed our perspective seeing what was happening to the other bands." The rise of grunge in the early '90s marked a seismic shift in the music industry. While the Seattle ...

The “post-grunge” label gets tossed around a lot, but what does it actually mean? To keep it simple, post-grunge refers to the type of grunge music alt-rock bands were making in the 1990s through the ...