We know you can’t wait to see shirtless Tom Cruise rocking some serious ’80s hair, so we whipped up this collection of hair band icons before they were famous!

What is heavy metal? For some people, that topic that can generate more controversy than religion or Tim Tebow. Over the years, metal has split into more genres and subgenres than we have room to list here. Bottom line: We say you know heavy metal when you hear it. So there. Now that that’s settled, let’s take a look at some of the heaviest rockers around before they were stars.