Latest articles by Dave Everley
Masters Of Reality's Chris Goss on Rick Rubin, Ginger Baker, and surviving the music industry
Chris Goss lit the fuse on the 90s stoner revolution, but his band Masters Of Reality remain a cult act despite their enormous influence
"I have never heard a sound like that, before or since": In 1967, Queen’s Brian May was an unknown student. Then he booked Jimi Hendrix to play his college for £1000 and his life changed forever
A pre-fame Brian May got to watch Jimi Hendrix play a student ball from 10 feet away
We got Def Leppard’s Joe Elliott to pick his ultimate AC/DC setlist
From big hitters to deep cuts, this the perfect AC/DC setlist according to Def Leppard singer and AC/DC megafan Joe Elliott
How Metallica changed the game forever with a "sloppy" little demo track called Hit The Lights
With Hit The Lights, Metallica found their first signature song and a track that'd have a profound effect on heavy metal's evolution
“Jollity can’t undercut the music’s impact”: Marillion’s An Hour Before It‘s Dark Live
Pandemic-era masterpiece brought vividly to life with additional material.
"I knew that these songs were meant for me to sing": Sebastian Bach on his extraordinary life
He played clubs and guzzled beer at 14; fronted Skid Row and got hit records, star friends, a taste for coke and the sack; then things got really interesting
“I was in a bad place”: how Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix pulled himself back from the abyss
Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix nearly didn’t make it through the recording of his band’s 2012 album The Connection. But it was the wake-up call he needed
“People were giving me 10 minutes to live when I was 30”: why Lemmy was one of rock’s great warriors
In 2013, two years before his death, legendary Motörhead frontman Lemmy looked back on a life on rock’s frontline
How the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal was born, by those who were there
In the late 70s, rock music was given a steel-booted kick up the backside by a new breed of band. The NWOBHM would go on to rule Britannia – and the world
Kerry King has a new solo album - he also has things to say
Slayer guitarist Kerry King on his old band, his new band, his new solo album, humanity’s failure, and the pressure of going solo
Duff McKagan keeps it intimate on Tenderness Live In Los Angeles
GN’R bassist Duff McKagan scales things down on solo live double album
"Not quite rock, not quite prog, not quite metal, but simultaneously a little and none of each": The Anathema albums you should definitely listen to
Hailed as heirs to classic Pink Floyd before their hiatus, much-missed Liverpudlian rockers Anathema had a unique, commanding catalogue
“It’s a beast!”: meet the doom metal legend who obsessively collects vinyl versions of Black Sabbath‘s debut album
Candlemass bassist Leif Edling owns way more copies of Black Sabbath’s debut album than you
How a single show rejuvenated the Scorpions and sent them on the path to superstardom
With two members “smashed after touring”, the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the Love At First Sting album turned them into global icons
“It was an intense process being in this band”: the inside story of Faith No More’s unlikely comeback
How Faith No More’s brilliant 2015 album Sol Invictus completed the most unlikely comeback of the 21st century
AC/DC’s Power Up tour: the first review
AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there
“There’s a feeling of carpe diem”: Big Big Train’s Grand Tour had intergalactic ambitions
Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before
Kerry King's From Hell I Rise: The best Slayer album Slayer never made
On solo album From Hell I Rise Kerry King sounds like he's having more fun than he had in years with his old band
The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands
From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands
An epic oral history of the years that turned Slayer into the ultimate thrash metal icons
Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions
Oliver Wakeman’s Celtic-themed Anam Cara began in 2002
Celtic-themed album, featuring Hayley Griffiths and, Troy Donockley, is spiritual successor to his collaboration with Steve Howe
The Pink Floyd solo albums you should definitely own
Freed from the rivalry and constraints within Pink Floyd, the band members held nothing back on their solo endeavours – and here are their best albums
After three albums of blues-rock, the Kris Barras Band have ramped up the heaviness
Kris Barras on the people in power, top advice from Billy Gibbons, and being a "Poundshop version" of Richie Kotzen
