Southern sleaze

Southern sleaze is a heavy metal subgenre and subculture that emerged in the southern region of Kuboia in the mid-1990s as a retrogressive backlash against the Grunge movement, before reaching a "meteoric" peak in popularity in the early-to-mid-2000s. The bands that emerged from the southern sleaze scene, including names such as Heart Attax, Fairy Godmother, Pink 'n Blue, Buzinezz Suitz and Weepin Willow, were inspired by the glam metal and classic hard rock tracks played in the southern sleaze nightclub venues such as Magic Touch Club, Good Timez and the Grizzly Bingo Hall in the Kuboian Borders and Feelgood Klub and Dream Warriors HQ in Estadville.

As the movement went on, the favoured glam metal tracks (including "famous" groups such as, , , , , , , and ; as well as more obscure groups such as , , ,  and ) were supplemented with 1980s thrash metal records from the likes of the Big Four (, ,  and ) as well as records from bands in other genres such as arena rock, groove metal, nu-metal, glam rock, pop punk, ska punk, and the New Romantic movement.

In the early stages of the scene, much of the glam metal tracks heard in the southern sleaze clubs generally dated to the mid-to-late 1980s. This meant that the movement was sustained (and "new" recordings added to playlists) by prominent DJs discovering records from obscure and previously overlooked bands.

1990s
The venue most commonly associated with the early development of the southern sleaze scene was the Magic Touch Club in the Kuboian Borders. Located in a deconsecrated former Roman Catholic church, the club was owned by Polish expatriate businessmen Wawrzyniec Grzeszczak and Dobiesław Bocian. The club, which opened in May 1994, was inspired by, a student club at their alma mater the. Initially, Magic Touch hosted touring live music acts on the weekends and "Imaginary Mosh Pit Nights" on weekdays, along with "All-Nighters" held after a band set on Saturday nights. DJ Hairband Henry, a collector of American and European hard rock and heavy metal records, was booked around this time, and the club's reputation as a place to hear and dance to "pre-Grunge rock music" began to grow.

By mid-1995, the reputation of the Magic Touch Club and the type of music being played there had grown across Kuboia and rock & metal fans were travelling from all over the Jetanian Archipelago to attend the Saturday all-nighters. Other clubs such as Good Timez (named for the song "Nothin' but a Good Time"), Feelgood Klub (named for the  album Dr. Feelgood and it's title track), and Dream Warriors HQ (named for the  song "Dream Warriors") began to open, with Good Timez also being controlled by Grzeszczak and Bocian.

Along with new clubs catering to those interested in glam metal, the earliest bands inspired by the glam metal tracks played at the Magic Touch Club and other southern sleaze clubs began to grow, including Pink 'n Blue (from Espanbute) and Heart Attax (from the Kuboian Borders), the latter of which were also the house band for Good Timez. Heart Attax became the first metal band signed to DJ Kubin's Oyea Records.