Dave Everley

Dave Everley

Dave Everley has been writing about and occasionally humming along to music since the early 90s. During that time, he has been Deputy Editor on Kerrang! and Classic Rock, Associate Editor on Q magazine and staff writer/tea boy on Raw, not necessarily in that order. He has written for Metal Hammer, Louder, Prog, the Observer, Select, Mojo, the Evening Standard and the totally legendary Ultrakill. He is still waiting for Billy Gibbons to send him a bottle of hot sauce he was promised several years ago.

Articles by: Dave Everley

Bruce Dickinson

"My business is to create. It’s what I do." How Iron Maiden legend Bruce Dickinson struck out on his own, got weirder than ever and created some of the boldest music of his career, over 50 years in.

By Dave Everley published

Bruce Dickinson has finally dived into the next chapter of his solo career - and it sees him in as creative and determined form as ever

Bruce Dickinson: The Mandrake Project

The stories behind Bruce Dickinson's new album The Mandrake Project

By Dave Everley published

Bored vampires, inspirational graveyards and Pulp Fiction moments: these are the stories behind every song on Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project

Don Felder of the Eagles

“I had heard how turbulent this band was. All this fighting over control and power”: Don Felder lived through the best and worst of the Eagles, and came out the other side

By Dave Everley published

Former Eagles guitarist Don Felder went from a dirt poor childhood to one of the biggest groups in history – and survived it all

A montage of rock supergroups

The 20 greatest rock supergroups ever

By Philip Wilding, Dave Everley published

From Cream and ELP to Temple Of The Dog and Velvet Revolver, these are history’s greatest supergroups

Roy Z

"When we first started, he did not want to sound like Iron Maiden": Roy Z on his three-decade creative partnership with Bruce Dickinson

By Dave Everley published

Producer and guitarist Roy Z explains how Bruce Dickinson's solo material has evolved in the past 31 years

Bruce Dickinson on the cover of Metal Hammer

Demon bikers, resurrections and ritual sex magic: Bruce Dickinson takes us behind the scenes for The Mandrake Project. "We're going full Hammer Horror"

By Dave Everley published

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

Brat/Blackgold/Alt Blk Era/The Sun's Journey Through The night/Militarie Gun

7 brilliant new metal bands to watch out for in 2024

By Dave Everley published

From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024

A posed studio portrait on Tom Petty in 1977

“He was an immortal badass”: the genius of Tom Petty, by the people who knew him best

By Dave Everley published

Tom Petty’s daughters, ex-bandmates and peers look back on the life of an American legend

Mark Knopfler standing against a wall

“Those Dire Straits songs walked away from me long ago. They belong to you now”: the life and times of Mark Knopfler, rock’s reluctant superstar

By Dave Everley published

Ex-Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler on motorbike crashes, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and his complicated relationship with his old band

Von Hertzen Brothers - Live at Tavastia

“Does it deserve to be measured against the classics? Yes... and no. ‘Warts and all’ is admirable, but some warts could do with a little concealer”: Von Hertzen Brothers’ Live at Tavastia

By Dave Everley published

The Finnish siblings have more than earned the right to indulge themselves – but debut live album delivers mixed results

San Antonio Slayer’s Steve Cooper and Slayer’s Tom Araya

“He said, ‘How about Slayer with special guests Slayer?’ We went, ‘Wow, that could be crazy’”: the forgotten story of Slayer vs Slayer, the 80s metal Battle Of The Bands with only one winner

By Dave Everley published

Two bands, one name, one crazy gig – this is what happened when a pre-fame Slayer shared a bill with another band named Slayer

Uriah Heep pose outside with their arms around each other in 1972

"It was five guys having the time of their lives in a recording studio. It was out of control but under control at the same time": Uriah Heep and a tale of Easy Livin'

By Dave Everley published

A song triggered by a conversation in a taxi, Easy Livin' broke Uriah Heep in the US, helped convert some of their harshest critics and propelled them into rock’s big league

Peter Gabriel sitting on a London Underground train

The Peter Gabriel albums you should definitely own

By Dave Everley published

In a career that's taken him from prog flag carrier to pop superstardom, Peter Gabriel has produced music of depth and originality - and these are his best albums

Ian Mosley

“I was earning good money and Marillion were all on £50 a week… I said, ‘I can’t really afford to join,’ so the manager gave everyone an immediate pay rise. I was Mr Popular”: Tales from Ian Mosley’s drum stool

By Dave Everley published

He’s risked the ire of Buddy Rich, kept time for naked hippies, told AC/DC he couldn’t join the band and watched his own band nearly split up over a Christmas song encore - among many other adventures

The Mute Gods, L-R: Roger King, Nick Beggs, Marco Minnemann

“To put up with stupidity and not call it out is a crime… When I think about some of the things I’ve said over the years, I’d really like to give myself a punch in the face”: On-call bassist Nick Beggs was always pretty angry

By Dave Everley published

An album built around the impending demise of mankind is the last thing you’d expect from that bloke who used to be in Kajagoogoo

Metal heroes

The 50 metal albums you need to hear in 2024

By Paul Travers published

From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year

Saxon in 1980 with an inset of Metallica’s James Hetfield

“They must have realised it was a bit stupid”: Metallica have never covered a Saxon song, and Biff Byford has a theory why

By Dave Everley published

Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an incident at their second ever show explain why?

Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy in 1983

"He looked like Daniel Day Lewis in The Last Of The Mohicans, except he jangled when he walked. I thought: 'That's a bit interesting'": Billy Duffy on Ian Astbury and the early days of Death Cult

By Dave Everley published

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

Peter Steele on stage

"Everything blew up. I remember there was a store in East Village that started selling ruffled shirts and velvet jackets." Vampires, Jesus and goth going mainstream: the story of Type O Negative's Bloody Kisses

By Dave Everley published

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

Sepultura in 1993

“At the time, we had a lot of anger, a lot of depression, the world was crazy. That song reflected what we were thinking.” How Sepultura's Refuse/Resist captured the mood of a world in turmoil - and put South American metal on the map

By Dave Everley published

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

Jethro Tull in 1969

“It was like being a reporter with a notebook going, ‘No! Wow!’ It was hilarious. We had all the fun but we didn’t have to go through the lifestyle”: Martin Barre on being serious with Jethro Tull while Led Zeppelin partied

By Dave Everley published

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

Queen’s Freddie Mercury onstage in Montreal in 1981

“Freddie goes berserk and says: ‘I’m not being constrained in my wardrobe. I will wear what the f**k I like!’”: how Queen made the groundbreaking 1981 concert movie Queen Rock Montreal

By Dave Everley published

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

Foreigner studio portrait

"He'll tell you I pushed him more than I needed to, and he's probably right": Mick Jones looks back at the Foreigner single that helped invent the 80s

By Dave Everley published

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

Bruce Dickinson alongside his new comic book

"The Mandrake Project is possibly the maddest idea in a career full of mad ideas." Bruce Dickinson's new comic book is weird, dark, funny and far more than a rock star vanity project

By Dave Everley published

The Iron Maiden frontman has roped in some heavyweight comic book names for his latest endeavour - and it's worked rather well

Extreme group shot

"I owe him an apology. I'd like to sit down with him and have a beer": Extreme's Nuno Bettencourt on upsetting a member of Guns N' Roses and the guitar solo that broke the internet

By Dave Everley published

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