"I want to note here the degree to which hair metal disappeared from the planet—are there any actually serious new bands in the past 15 years that are explicitly ‘80’s hairstyle-candy-metal?"
Well, The Darkness insisted that they were serious. But that's about the only one I can think of. And maybe they were a bit more 70s in execution anyway.
Well, The Darkness insisted that they were serious. But that's about the only one I can think of. And maybe they were a bit more 70s in execution anyway.