Glam metal10/28/2022 ![]() ![]() Being able to give that music that’s so out of fashion in America a chance to shine a little is one of the fun things about this show.” They’re actually overall much better than the hair metal bands that I grew up with. There’s a lot of European sleaze metal bands today that are actually really good. "And it’s a mix between these old bands and new bands. "It’s taking hair metal, basically, or sleaze metal, or glam metal, and giving it a spotlight," Gunn told the official HBO Peacemaker podcast. Almost every time a new band was added to the mix following their appearance in a Peacemaker episode, the song quickly became the top-trending track in their respective discographies. An official soundtrack playlist put out on Spotify by James Gunn himself has amassed 116,000 followers - by a distance the most-followed mix he's released (and he's released a few). The entire show is soundtracked by glam metal, packing everything from classics by 80s OGs Mötley Crüe, Lita Ford and Hanoi Rocks to cuts from more modern names like Reckless Love, Band-Maid and Sister Sin. Peacemaker's glam metal love-in doesn't stop there, either. The band signed with a new agent, started booking gigs and haven't looked back since, Nilsen adding that their "phone lines are on fire right now”. Even TikTok went Wig Wam crazy: dance videos aping that credits sequence attracted hundreds of thousands of views. After Peacemaker debuted, Do Ya Wanna Taste It flew to the top of the US iTunes Rock Chart and began racking up streams in the millions. “Three days before the Peacemaker premiere, our booking agency dropped us from their roster, because there was too little interest in the band,” singer Åge Sten 'Glam' Nilsen told Billboard. Wig Wam are the first to admit it all came at a crucial moment for the band. ![]() ![]() Titled Do Ya Wanna Taste It (obviously) and originally released on Wig Wam's fourth album Non Stop Rock 'n' Roll in 2010, the song has since taken on a new lease of life, having now racked up over 13 million streams on Spotify alone - twice the number of their aforementioned Eurovision hit and previous breakthrough track, In My Dreams - and that's before you take in the near-10 million people that have watched the Peacemaker intro on Youtube. And the Wig Wam song just seemed to be the one that had perfect lyrics for our show: 'Do you wanna taste it? Do you really wanna taste it?' And so there really was nothing else in consideration besides that song." "I started collecting a list of Peacemaker music long before I started writing the show. "The Wig Wam song was just, to be completely honest, one of the first things I thought of," James Gunn told Rolling Stone in January. ![]()
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