But as mentioned in earlier articles, I would very quickly get tired of all the “angst,” the “woe-is-me,” the whining that followed like old garbage in Nirvana’s wake, and that still plagues today’s metal scene twenty years later, not to mention the complete lack of any decent guitar solos.īut back to Steelheart and the matter at hand. Personally, In Utero by Nirvana is one of my favorite albums, with Nevermind only a step or two behind. Interestingly, though hair-metal largely disappeared, wasn’t grunge just another name for metal? Like many of their brethren, Steelheart rode the heavy-metal explosion that started in the mid-1980s and continued until 1992.īut the times they would soon be a-changin’, and within a year of their only Top 40 hit in 1991, Steelheart, along with Warrant, Poison, Skid Row and all the others (save Bon Jovi, who would somehow manage to weather the oncoming storm) would quickly be rendered irrelevant when Nirvana’s Nevermind crashed into the album chart, signaling a changing of the guard and the arrival of grunge. “hair bands,” the band was actually from Norwalk, Connecticut. Although Steelheart and their hit “I’ll Never Let You Go (Angel Eyes) sounded like a myriad of L.A.
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