non-American/British hair metal bands

[cjl8336 cjl8336]

Most know of motley crue/whitesnake/etc
I think these guys have the better sound, and the vocals are very distinct

 

[SliperyHippo]

I don't know if you'd exactly call this "hair metal" but I'll be damned if Yngwie Malmsteen doesn't deserve a seat at the non-american guitar legends of the 80's!

Alright, now that I've got you on board with Yngwie, here's the actual song of his I want y'all to check out!

 

[Clippy]

Japan is the only nation that truly embraced the silliness of hair metal and I do believe that we have a visual kei thread out there somewhere but there are a few outliers I can provide.

 

[middler]

Non-american hair metal... I can do that.

 

[saturnsh2x2]

Obligatory Dir En Grey shoutout:

 

[DinoRexMax]

Hair Metal
Hair Metal , Japan

 

[Tonberry]

Hair/glam has been weirdly consistently popular in certain parts of the nordic countries since its inception. Some examples:

Norway:

Finland:

Sweden:

Denmark (sort of):

 

[Sorion]

I know next to nothing about metal, but if you're looking for more, you should totally search for finish metal bands, for some reason, Finland has the highest amount of metal bands per capita in the world, they even have a metal group for children whose members wear dinosaurs costumes, it's amazing hahaha.