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.
Latest articles by Dave Everley

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The story of the short-lived union between Black Sabbath and a former singer of Fleetwood Mac

By Merlin Alderslade Published
You might not be surprised to find that Lemmy faced his own mortality with the kind of no-nonsense attitude that defined his life

By Dave Everley Published
Not even System Of A Down themselves could have predicted just how big this song would become

By Dave Everley Published
The unlikely story of Sammy Wilde And Dustcloud

By Dave Everley Published
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

By Dave Everley Published
Monster Magnet mainman Dave Wyndorf holed up near Las Vegas with guitars, speakers, a drum machine and a four-track recorder

By Dave Everley Published
Southern rock flagbearers Blackberry Smoke serve up an overstuffed career-spanning compilation

By Dave Everley Published
The story of Ghost‘s classic 2018 single Dance Macabre

By Dave Everley Published
Three men, one vision, several lawsuits

By Dave Everley Published
How Megadeth wrote a landmark thrash metal classic in the midst of personal and financial chaos

By Dave Everley Published
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

By Dave Everley Published
Muscles, kidnappings and inflatable hot water bottles – the rise, fall and resurrection of Thor, one of 80s metal’s greatest cult heroes

By Dave Everley Published
Status Quo beefed up John Fogerty’s ‘piddly’ original and struck rock’n’roll gold

By Dave Everley Published
New concept LP begins with the true story of a baggage handler who stole a plane and killed himself, and goes on to celebrate a fake cult based on a toy ball

By Dave Everley Published
In 1978 Whitesnake turned a Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland chestnut into one of blues rock’s greatest anthems

By Dave Everley Published
Adopted soon after birth, his search for clues to his identity inspired a book which then inspired an album – and there’s a reason it’s not a completely prog work

By Dave Everley Published
Robert Plant talks about his latest group Saving Grace, and compares nights out in small provincial towns to meetings with Barack Obama and Prince Charles

By Dave Everley Published
The opening song from 1986’s Reign In Blood affirmed Slayer as thrash metal’s scariest scare-mongers

By Dave Everley Published
Iron Maiden legends Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris look back at 50 years of heavy metal history

By Neil Jeffries Published
Buying guide Canada's prog rock heroes have amassed an immense discography over a 50-year career... and now they're hitting the road again

By Dave Everley Published
Glenn Hughes has spent more than 50 years in rock - and he's ready to talk about it all

By Dave Everley Published
Their Bioscope debut arrived after the pair took advice from Steven Wilson, spent a week every winter exploring sounds and ideas, and borrowed Elbow’s drummer to fulfil their instrumental cinematic vision

By Dave Everley Published
They played a gig at Bruce Dickinson’s school when he was 15 years old
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