Tesla

USA

Formed: 1986

Years Active: 80, 90, 2000

Genres: Pop/Rock

Styles: Hard Rock, Hair Metal, Heavy Metal, Pop-Metal, Album Rock

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Although Tesla emerged during the glory days of hair metal, the band's music was equally indebted to contemporary blues and '70s-style hard rock, a fusion that helped differentiate albums like The Great Radio Controversy from its contemporaries. Despite the refreshing lack of posturing, Tesla was hit just as hard as the rest of the pop-metal world when grunge arrived in the early 1990s. They did produce one of the era's more respectable bodies of work, however, including three consecutive platinum-selling albums. Although Tesla took shape in 19...

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