wait a second…kiss was never part of the hair metal phase…
kiss was my second favourite band in the very late 70ies right after boney m…
while hair metal started half a decade later and was finally killed by grunge…
and got it’s very own genre label only in retrospective…back then, before grunge ruled even mainstream for while, nobody mentioned any hair…
in retrospect, even mötley crüüüüüüü, THE definition of a metal hair band, had it’s moments…
if u just listen for a moment and look the other way…
while in overall mainstream relevance, speaking of global metal, there were only led zeppelin, kiss, scorpions and metallica…while slayer and pantera also had their point…
all the rest is pretty much underground…
but metal is that genre, where all that sub genre thing started…