Latest articles by Dave Everley
How Push It helped Static-X become one of the 90s' last breakout metal bands
Static-X became main eventers of nu metal's second wave thanks to their classic banger, Push It
Opeth gave their label two albums for the price of one, and it nearly cost them their career
Beset by overwork, listless colleagues and a family tragedy, Mikael Åkerfeldt felt like splitting the Swedish group apart as they worked through 2002’s Deliverance to get to 2003’s Damnation
The true story of Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin's lost jam
Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi on the legendary Black Zeppelin jam – the greatest session you’ve never heard
Therapy? were noise-rock outsiders from Northern Ireland – but they made one of the greatest alt-metal albums of the 90s
Therapy?’s 1994 album Troublegum united the tribes like few other things
The chaotic birth of Grindcore, the scene that changed metal forever
Grindcore made thrash metal sound like Celine Dion
What its like being in a major metal band before they blow up
It's a long way to the top, if you play rock'n'roll
Motörhead's On Parole Sessions are a noble endeavour but the extras are perplexing
Motörhead's shelved would-have-been debut album gets the box set treatment it doesn’t need
Carl Palmer: Keith Emerson’s death wasn’t the worst part of losing him
They met when Palmer stood in with Fleetwood Mac for a show with The Nice. Half a century of amazing music and friendship followed. The drummer reveals what they’d be doing today if Emerson was still alive
From Scorsese and Michael Bolton to black metal greatness, the surprising career of Myrkur
Few artists in modern metal have had a career quite like Myrkur
Blaze Bayley comes clean about leaving Iron Maiden, working with Rick Rubin and the heart attack that nearly killed him
A candid interview with Blaze Bayley from 2023
Ex-Megadeth bassist David Ellefson remembers his first impression of Metallica’s Master Of Puppets
Playing in Metallica’s rival band didn’t stop him from loving their landmark third album same as everyone else
Metallica producer: “Nothing happened in the band unless Cliff Burton nodded ‘yes’”
80s producer Flemming Rasmussen remembers Cliff Burton being the heavy metal titans’ unofficial musical leader
The 30 best metal albums of the decade (so far)
From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far
The unloved movie script that soundtracked Porcupine Tree’s Deadwing
TV creative used to hire Steven Wilson to make ad music. In the late 90s they wrote a film together. They’re still waiting to make it
"I was kicked out of Deftones' show for being too aggressive. I was like, 'I used to be in this band!'"
Dominic Garcia was Deftones' original bassist, but a misunderstanding ended his tenure long before they'd eventually blow up
Dr. Who actor Peter Capaldi on the music that has soundtracked his life
Singer/guitarist/actor/Time Lord Peter Capaldi picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance
How rock’s most volatile band wrote the song that invented the 1990s – and then imploded
The greatest song ever to feature vocals from the singer’s pet dog
The ultimate Motorhead playlist (as picked by Metallica, Judas Priest and more)
We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them
Nine Jim Steinman albums you should listen to and one to avoid
His musical vision was rejected by everyone. Then, like a bat out of hell, he went from a nobody to being hailed as a musical genius
The cult hair metal band with links to Styx, Smashing Pumpkins and Kanye West who had the world in their hands – but threw it away
Enuff Z’Nuff could have been the new Cheap Trick, but label politics and self-destruction got in the way
How Sammy Hagar tried and failed to become a prog star after falling for Pink Floyd
Montrose and Van Halen frontman regrets that he never got to make his concept album about aliens and space travel under the banner Sammy Wilde And Dustcloud
“None of us agreed on any of it”: The story of Marillion’s upbeat lockdown album An Hour Before It's Dark
Covid, a spider bite, a missing guitarist, barring one member from the tour bus – nothing could have prepared them for the challenges they faced in making the follow-up to FEAR
