Latest articles by Dave Everley
How Type O Negative created goth metal's greatest album
Bloody Kisses made Type O Negative the biggest band on Roadrunner Records, its follow-up cemented them as goth metal's most iconic band
Rush’s Neil Peart, an exploding golf ball and two career-changing conversations
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson recall their late friend and bandmate, recalling what he brought to the band and how they began to move on without him
All the songs Rush have never played live… yet
Rush have recorded 167 original songs. They’ve never played 42 of them. Could that change on the Fifty Something tour?
Former England legend Terry Butcher is a huge Iron Maiden fan and the original heavy metal footballer
Ex-England captain Terry Butcher on singing onstage with Iron Maiden, Steve Harris’ football skills and England’s chances in the World Cup
Rush played a classic song for the first time in 47 years on the fourth night of the Fifty Something tour
The Fifty Something tour continues to throw up surprises – and this time it was A Farewell To Kings, aired for the first time since 1979
Legendary songwriter Russ Ballard tried to write a song with Ozzy Osbourne – and failed
Ozzy offered Ballard tips on how to get high-grade military hardware - and Ritchie Blackmore just wanted to play “minstrel music”
Rick Wakeman: Jon Lord inspired me, made me laugh, and he was a true progger at heart
Deep Purple icon, who inspired Yes counterpart to remake Journey To The Centre Of The Earth, had a wicked sense of humour and was a true progger at heart
“Five minutes is a great length for a song”: Yes keep things tight on new album Aurora
Guitarist Steve Howe discusses their unplanned three-record run, speculates on what’s left for the future, and explains why he’s still bothering with the current line-up
“We said, ‘We’re going out in 2026.’ The crowd laughed”: Rush, from political pariahs to comeback kings
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson draw a career line from the early 80s to 2027. They say they might continue after that, if they can stand each other – and if they can stand
How Norman Greenbaum wrote the last great hippie anthem – and then disappeared into obscurity
Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit In The Sky was one of the greatest one-hit-wonders of the early 1970s
How Powerslave cemented Iron Maiden as the biggest metal band on the planet in 1984
Is fencing better than karate? Was the world about to end? How many frozen daiquiries can you have and still pull off an epic solo? Maiden were answering all the important questions when they made Powerslave
The explosive story behind System Of A Down’s Toxicity album
System Of A Down’s second album Toxicity gave nu metal’s most political band a platform to be heard . But some people wanted to shut them up – permanently
Evanescence’s Amy Lee has strong feelings about being called ‘goth’ – and they’re not positive
Don’t mention the ‘g’ word
The 25 best goth metal albums
From HIM to Evanescence, Type O Negative to Misfits, these are the greatest albums released in the goth metal pantheon
What it was like following Iron Maiden from their first gig
One of Steve Harris's old workmates recalls following the band in their earliest years
Watch Dave Grohl join Sepultura onstage in Los Angeles to jam on a 90s classic
The Foo Fighters frontman joined the Sepultura at the Wiltern Theater in LA to add drums on Kaiowas
How Metallica turned a song from a Clint Eastwood movie into the greatest intro music in history
No Metallica show is complete without The Ecstasy Of Gold as its intro tape
“I walked home thinking: ‘I’m gonna be a plumber for the rest of my life!’” When Rush opened for the New York Dolls
The guitarist recalls an early-days Spinal Tap moment, and reveals what it might take for him to follow Geddy Lee’s lead and write a book
Babymetal reveal the story behind one early fan favourite Akatsuki
Babymetal tell us about 15 of their most important songs in the brand new issue of Metal Hammer
"I remember us saying, ‘Well, if the band doesn’t make it, we’ll join the Marines.’" The story of the song that gave thrash metal its name
Metallica, Exodus and Slayer might've been defining thrash on the West coast, but it was in New York the genre finally got its name
Devin Townsend on being a jerk, never fitting in, three minutes of sex and four of crying
He might be permanently confused – but he knows how Pink Floyd works, why Captain Beefheart was better than Frank Zappa, what’s wrong with being a rock star, and how it feels to spend two years in a mental institution. Let him explain
After fronting Skid Row and battling cancer, Erik Grönwall is enjoying doing what he wants to do
Having sung with H.E.A.T, Skid Row and Michael Schenker, Erik Grönwall has released Bad Bones, his first solo album of original material in 16 years
“It pissed him off. He went, ‘F**k, I can’t say no!’” Rush’s R40 tour only happened for a single reason
The drummer had already decided to retire. But a wounded Alex Lifeson brought the only argument that made the classic line-up’s 2015 final road trip a reality
