Latest articles by Dave Everley
The prog genre has enjoyed an incredible year in 2025. Here are our top 50 albums of the past 12 months – did your favourite make the cut?
On what would've been his 80th birthday, we remember rock'n'roll icon and Motorhead legend Lemmy Kilmister
His pole vaulting days may be behind him, but even at the age of 80, Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan is still in demand
Power metal godfathers Helloween were on the way to huge success in the 80s – but one member wanted out
Before Corey Taylor and before the nu metal takeover, Slipknot launched their career with a DIY release that put the Des Moines scene on notice
Prog stalwarts Solstice could have had Marillion's success - they just didn't want it
Buying guide Twelve months of life-enriching, extraordinary new music
They've shook hands with Dio, hung out in a strip club with Lemmy and helped found Britain's stoner metal scene, but now Orange Goblin are taking their final bows
Pinching a riff from Kirk Hammett’s former band and inspired by a Charlton Heston film, Metallica reached a new level with their 1984 single
As Tommy Lee of Motley Crue once put it, Closer is "the ultimate **** song" - but it certainly wasn't written that way
It even got the South Park seal of approval
The story of the short-lived union between Black Sabbath and a former singer of Fleetwood Mac
You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life
Not even System Of A Down themselves could have predicted just how big this song would become
The unlikely story of Sammy Wilde And Dustcloud
Fifty years on, Brian May and Roger Taylor reveal the vision, precision and daring behind Queen’s A Night At The Opera, the album that rewrote rock’s rules
Monster Magnet mainman Dave Wyndorf holed up near Las Vegas with guitars, speakers, a drum machine and a four-track recorder
Southern rock flagbearers Blackberry Smoke serve up an overstuffed career-spanning compilation
The story of Ghost‘s classic 2018 single Dance Macabre
Three men, one vision, several lawsuits
How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos
Buying guide W.A.S.P's infamy as leading shock metallers of the 1980s belies a back catalogue full of serious classic rock-influenced songwriting
Muscles, kidnappings and inflatable hot water bottles – the rise, fall and resurrection of Thor, one of 80s metal’s greatest cult heroes
