
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

"I was torn between Ozzy and Genesis - what the hell do I do?": A story of "the next Black Sabbath", missed opportunities and vanished dreams
By Dave Everley published
Necromandus were earmarked as the next Black Sabbath by Black Sabbath themselves - but their dreams were not fulfilled

The 50 best rock albums of 2023
By Fraser Lewry published
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

The 50 best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by the readers of Metal Hammer
By Rich Hobson published
From Metallica to Sleep Token, Avenged Sevenfold to Babymetal, these are the best metal albums of 2023 - as voted by you!

“The albums I love the most were the ones where I wasn’t sure what I was listening to… There’s something great about music that’s beyond easy description or categorisation”: Steven Wilson gets it if you don’t get The Harmony Codex at first
By Dave Everley published
He’s not out to mislead or deceive with his seventh solo album, but admits: “You can look for explanation, you can look for logic, but it’s not there”

"If I look back at all the records, I see a songwriter and a soundsmith working on his craft." Prog meets Peter Gabriel
By Jerry Ewing, Dave Everley published
Recently Peter Gabriel released i/o, his first new studio album for 21 years. As it hurtles towards the top of the charts, Prog sits down with Peter for a quick natter

The King's X albums you should definitely own
By Dave Everley published
Enigmatic trio King's X have never quite enjoyed the success they deserved, but they've made excellent music along the way – and these are their best albums

"Between burn-out and a looming crisis, Sabbath somehow hit their greatest high." Which is Black Sabbath's best album? Metal Hammer's writers argue it out
By Merlin Alderslade published
Paranoid? Sabbath Bloody Sabbath? Heaven And Hell? Hammer's top writers duel it out to declare Sabbath's best album ever

"Their eye-catching if shamelessly transparent spin is to dress as sexy undead fetish nuns while churning out 80s-inspired Euro-metal": Dogma by Dogma
By Dave Everley published
The debut album from mysterious nun-rockers Dogma is a blasphemous celebration of sex and hard rock cheese

Watch every song from Led Zeppelin IV being played live
By Dave Everley published
Every song from Led Zeppelin’s iconic fourth album from Black Dog to When The Levee Breaks, captured at different points in their career

Haunt The Woods admit their music “isn’t really that accessible” – but you get to hear it thanks to Peppa Pig…
By Dave Everley published
The self-described “Cornish hippies” on their folk, art-rock, global music roots, new album Ubiquity – and how they owe everything to the kindliness of (pink) strangers…

"There have been pivotal moments, like playing with Metallica or Iron Maiden for the first time, where you go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’" We went to LA to see Ghost's world takeover reach yet another new peak
By Dave Everley published
From setting the stage for Sleep Token to making metal sexy again, Tobias Forge takes us inside the final days of Impera

"People talk about how brilliant it was that grunge wiped out hair metal. Listen, hair metal was way more fun:" Creeper are bringing character back to rock'n'roll and somewhere Jim Steinman is applauding
By Dave Everley published
Disillusioned with much of modern music and its presentation, Creeper up the drama and the slap and take things over-the-top with their new goth-rock vampire opera album

“It’s a place where outsiders live. When you’re getting hit in the face for being a dirty grunger, it’s a world to escape to.” How UK goth-punks Creeper crafted a deliciously dark new world for outcasts everywhere to hide in. With vampires.
By Dave Everley published
Creeper's Sanguivore is one of the albums of the year, and with it they - and in particular talismanic frontman Will Gould - have crafted a whole new world

"Their detractors slapped them down as cynical bandwagon jumpers... A great primer for a band who eventually proved their worth": Bush's Loaded - The Greatest Hits
By Dave Everley published
A definitive overview of 90s alt.rock survivors Bush's career

The best metal albums of 2023 so far
By Rich Hobson published
From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more
By Dave Everley published
Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

Still wondering what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love? Then read the lyrics
By Dave Everley published
The story behind Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's mega-hit I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

“The universe and self and the inside of ourselves is all the same thing, depending on which end you look down the telescope”: Gong continue a “loose trilogy” with Unending Ascending
By Dave Everley published
Kavus Torabi explains the themes behind the band’s third album after the death of Daevid Allen

Metal Hammer's writers battle it out to decide which is Iron Maiden's best album
By Merlin Alderslade published
Iron Maiden have made some absolute classics across their near-five decade career, so we got the Maiden megafans in our ranks to argue over which is the greatest album of them all

"The farewell tour was us wanting to put Kiss out of its misery:" How Kiss's long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe
By Dave Everley published
For Kiss, the 90s was a roller-coaster decade that took them from the lows of a shelved ‘grunge’ album to a money-spinning reunion to a cataclysmic fall-out. Roll up and step into the Psycho Circus

10 massively successful British bands who failed to crack America
By Dave Everley published
Not every band can be as huge as The Beatles or Led Zeppelin in America – just ask Slade, The Small Faces and Status Quo

Tarot cards, a ouija board and a demonic pottery candleholder: the deluxe version of Mötley Crüe's best album is an OTT wonder
By Dave Everley published
Mötley Crüe's glam-metal foundation stone Shout At The Devil gets the luxury 40th-anniversary treatment

"Don't get me started on Rick Wakeman!" Rick Astley's never gonna give prog up!
By Dave Everley published
Pop star Rick Astley reveals his love of Rick Wakeman, Yes, Camel and more in the latest issue of Prog

“I was on heroin, I’d torched my marriage, I was homeless and penniless”: the rise, fall and rise again of hard rock survivors Little Caesar
By Dave Everley published
Little Caesar should have been the next big band to come out of the late 80s Sunset Strip scene – but everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong
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