Vain

Vain are a driving, melody-driven glam metal/hard rock unit in the vein of West Coast contemporaries like Guns N' Roses, Faster Pussycat, and Mötley Crüe. Island Records released their 1988 debut, No Respect. Like many pop-metal outfits wrestling to be heard above the clamor of the burgeoning Seattle grunge movement, Vain struggled in the early '90s and were dropped by Island before they could release their already-recorded sophomore long-player. A bevy of lineup changes cast a shadow over 1994's Move on It and 1995's Fade, and in 2000, leader Davy Vain went solo with In from Out of Nowhere. Vain reconvened for 2005's On the Line, and in 2009, they acquired the rights to All Those Strangers, their 1991 follow-up to No Respect, and released it themselves. Enough Rope arrived in 2011, and their seventh album, Rolling with the Punches, materialized in 2017. Disintegrate Together appeared in 2024.