Warrant

Warrant is a hair metal band from Los Angeles, California which enjoyed its greatest success in 1990 with the smash single and album Cherry Pie.

The music of Warrant, which has undergone a significant evolution dur

Warrant is a hair metal band from Los Angeles, California which enjoyed its greatest success in 1990 with the smash single and album Cherry Pie.

The music of Warrant, which has undergone a significant evolution during the band's 20 year history, is difficult to comprehensively characterise. However, it is the music created during the 1980s and early 1990s which, for better or worse, remains the band's signature. Few of the hair metal bands to gain notoriety during this period captured the lighter side of the Sunset Strip's party spirit with more authenticity than Warrant. The band's brand of heavy metal was loud, cheesy, sex-obsessed, and usually delivered with a mischievous sense of humour. The generally lighthearted band became famous for its raucous party anthems filled with thinly-veiled references to sex ("Down Boys", "Cherry Pie") but also for its sentimental, melodic ballads ("Heaven", "Sometimes She Cries", "I Saw Red").