Dave Everley

When Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy announced the 2023 resurrection of Death Cult, goths went batshit and gig tickets sold like blackened coals. Here’s how the seminal band came into being

How Type O Negative brought gothic metal to the masses with an iron-clad classic album

Sepultura were already considered one of the most exciting bands in 90s metal. They just needed a song to take them to the next level

Guitarist nearly missed his chance to join Ian Anderson’s band in 1968 because he didn’t have the courage to call the number on the advert

As a restored version of Queen Rock Montreal hits IMAX, we look back on two gigs that went from the tetchy to the triumphant

Mick Jones reveals how Mutt Lange and a young British keyboard wizard helped steer Foreigner out of a difficult time

In 2023, Extreme released their first new album in 15 years, Six. Guitarist Nino Bettencourt also found time to play at the Super Bowl with Rihanna and bust his knee playing basketball

They played Eurovision, met the king and toured with Iron Maiden - but 2023 was just another wild year for Germany's Lord Of The Lost

Mocked by most of the UK press, Bradford band New Model Army have remained as steadfastly uncompromising as they have unfashionable

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Tobias Forge remains tight-lipped on what Ghost's massive two-night LA residency was about, but does drop hints about the band's future going into 2024

The Eagles’ Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B Schmit look back on their band’s rollercoaster career

Broke, directionless and dumped just before his wedding, the former Marillion singer forged 13th Star amid the turmoil

"He takes me down this dark path, and suddenly Mark Lanegan just appears out of nowhere, wreathed in smoke, kind of like the devil" - Brian Fallon

In 1994, Blaze Bayley became Maiden’s new singer – but he wasn’t the only contender for the job

Sleep Token, Creeper, Within Temptation: 2023 has been a massive year for metal, and these 50 records represent the very best the year has had to offer

Mike Portnoy and Steve Howe provide supporting evidence that Bohemian Rhapsody is only the tip of the band’s boundary-pushing iceberg

Featuring members of Guns N’ Roses, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, Alter Bridge and more, Kings Of Chaos are rock’s most high-profile covers band

Duff McKagan’s Lighthouse album might be a long way from the music he’s best known for with Guns N' Roses, but it still reflects the punk rocker in him

From the monolithic Metallica to rising stars like Green Lung, these are the greatest shows that Team Hammer saw this year

Necromandus were earmarked as the next Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath themselves - but their dreams were not fulfilled

The past 12 months may go down in history as a period of tumult and turmoil, but on the positive side, rock'n'roll is very much alive and well – as the best 50 albums of 2023 reflect