Latest articles by Dave Everley
David Lee Roth teaches a lesson in how not to conduct a solo career in five albums
David Lee Roth's precipitous post-Van Halen tail-off is documented on The Warner Recordings 1985-1994
Inspired by Keith Moon and Star Trek, Come Sail Away took Styx to places they never expected
A song about being picked up and taken away by aliens, Come Sail Away gave Styx a career boost and eventually took on a life of its own
Overkill’s Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth is the thrash survivor that cancer and a stroke couldn’t kill
Overkill’s Bobby ‘Blitz’ Ellsworth has spent a life on thrash’s frontlines
How Nita Strauss became a modern guitar hero
From Alice Cooper to Demi Lovato and her own solo work, Nita Strauss has become a modern metal icon
"It doesn't wholly demystify them, but it reveals the human brilliance at their heart": Becoming Led Zeppelin strips away the mystique to present the birth of a legend
Rare footage and the voice of John Bonham – Becoming Led Zeppelin is cracks opens the door into an unseen world
"I’d listen to that song and dream about my future": The soundtrack of Luke Spiller's life
Luke Spiller picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance, and reveals the classic album he might record new vocals for
“Sometimes his lyrics are so indistinct they may as well be wordless. Sometimes they are actually wordless”: Jonathan Hultén’s Eyes Of The Living Night is brilliant and beautiful
After channeling Nick Drake and Bert Jansch on his first record, the Swedish guitarist’s pivot from extreme metal brings him to a Kate Bush-like world
The late 80s alt-metal album that Korn guitarist Head says accidentally invented nu metal
The alt-metal classic that came out of nowhere and changed everything
Larkin Poe serve up more country-infused rock'n'roll on album six, Bloom
Nashville siblings return with an album as earthy as the dust blown up by a Tennessee gale
Body Count frontman Ice-T explains why Slayer's comeback is great for metal fans
Body Count frontman and self-professed Slayer superfan Ice-T talks the return of the Big Four's most notorious band
Floor Jansen on Yesterwynde, Nightwish's future plans and what comes next
Nightwish might not have been on the road in 2024, but they still put out one of the year's best albums
“Our best friends were drug dealers”: The chaotic story of Aerosmith’s early years
The birth of American rock’s original Crazy Gang
The Story Behind Mastodon's prog metal breakout Oblivion
A drunken fist-fight, childhood tragedy and an all-star producer all helped Mastodon channel their melodic tendencies on Oblivion
Alex Lifeson and Geddy are jamming together – but they have no plans to resurrect Rush with a new drummer
Alex Lifeson reveals he and Geddy Lee have weekly jam session – and they record the results
Blood Incantation talk all night raves, psychedelics and being mistaken for Depeche Mode
Blood Incantation talk all night raves, psychedelics and being mistaken for Depeche Mode
The forgotten singer who replaced Ozzy Osbourne in Black Sabbath before Ronnie James Dio
It was a short tenure – but they recorded at least one track together
Vincent Cavanagh had to quit Anathema to become The Radicant
After abandoning a fully-written solo album in 2021, former frontman looks forward to a life without a leather jacket – and possibly without a guitar – with his debut EP We Ascend leading the way
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
The wild life and crazed career of Devin Townsend, metal’s misunderstood maverick
From defecating in Steve Vai‘s guitar case to puppet-based concept albums, Devin Townsend is out there on his own
The Temperance Movement don't reinvent the wheel on A Deeper Cut, but they do keep it spinning
A Deeper Cut was the last album The Temperance Movement made before parting ways with now-returned frontman Phil Campbell
The tumultuous story of Sepultura’s Roots album and their bitter split
How Sepultura made their most important album – and how it tore them apart
Mikael Åkerfeldt on ABBA, nearly buying a record shop and Opeth's awesome 14th album
When ABBA-mad Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt met one of their singers, he “lost it”. She didn’t sing on their new concept album, but some other, perhaps unlikely, big names did
Brian May's guide to rarely-seen Queen photos, from before they were famous
Sir Brian May talks us through a series of previously unseen photographs from Queen's early days as featured in the new Queen I Collector’s Edition
