Kansas: an everyday story of success, failure, drugs, booze and jealousy By Dave Ling The story of Kansas is just your average tale of power struggles, line-up changes, religious conversions and multi-million selling hit records
10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great By Fraser Lewry, Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Sleazegrinder, Stephen Hill, Rob Hughes, Dave Ling, Alec Chillingworth Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great
Kansas - The Absence Of Presence Review By Dave Ling Not yet rated The enduring US pomp rockers have still got what it takes.
10 cult 80s thrash albums every metal fan should know about By Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, Dave Ling Forget Metallica, Slayer and the rest – we drill down into the depths of the 80s thrash scene to uncover some lost treasures
Q&A: Deep Purple's Don Airey on life, loves and regrets By Dave Ling Don Airey recalls playing keyboards for Jethro Tull, Deep Purple and Colosseum II
10 bands whose best album was recorded live By Fraser Lewry, Geoff Barton, Sleazegrinder, Paul Elliot, Dave Ling, Rob Hughes, Malcolm Dome 10 live albums that remain a career pinnacle for 10 legendary bands
Caligula’s Horse raise the prog-metal bar on new album Rise Radiant By Dave Ling Antipodean explorers Caligula’s Horse position themselves on prog-metal’s cutting edge with new album Rise Radiant
Firewind: ex-Ozzy sidekick Gus G serves up hooks and guitar heroics on ninth album By Dave Ling Gus G returns to melodic power metal roots on Firewind’s self-titled ninth album
Vandenberg: Inside 2020, the reunion album 35 years in the making By Dave Ling Vandenberg are back with a brand new line-up and their first album in 35 years. Adrian Vandenberg joins us to talk us through why this album and new singer Ronnie Romero will "blow everyone away"
10 of the best songs by Gregg Allman By Dave Ling Ten classic moment's from Allman Brothers Band founder and all-round rock giant Gregg Allman
Ronnie James Dio: My Life Story By Dave Ling Back in 2008, we were lucky enough to talk to the mighty Ronnie James Dio about his epic career. This is what he had to say
Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen: “It's not impossible we could headline Download” By Dave Ling You grill Volbeat frontman Michael Poulsen on death metal, giant ducks and the chances of heading up the UK’s biggest metal festival
Brian Howe interview: Bad Company and beyond By Dave Ling Former Bad Company singer Brian Howe passed away earlier this week. This interview, from 2014, has never been published before
Former Bad Company vocalist Brian Howe dead at 66 By Dave Ling Brian Howe, who replaced Paul Rodgers in Bad Company and spent nearly a decade with the band, has died
The curious story of Krokus: drugs, fistfights, and the very end of the road By Dave Ling Heading for glory in the 80s, Krokus skidded out of the fast lane due to inflated ego, divisive management and white-line fever. Now, after 45 years, they’re parking the bus for good
Glenn Hughes: the 10 records that changed my life By Dave Ling Here's 10 records that reveal possibly everything about the life and times of Glenn Hughes, a.k.a. the Voice Of Rock™
Iron Maiden’s Iron Maiden: the debut album that changed metal By Dave Ling How five working class heroes from East London helped kickstart the 80s
Nightwish - Human. :II: Nature review By Dave Ling Not yet rated Another expected turn from the Finnish symphonic metallers
King's X interview: the life and times of the nearly men By Dave Ling A unique sound, a handful of great albums but no sniff of the charts, King’s X were the greatest unknown band in the world
Queensryche interview - how we made Operation: Mindcrime By Dave Ling Queensryche interviewed about their classic Operation: Mindcrime, the milestone album that became a millstone
The 30 albums that built heavy metal By Geoff Barton, Malcolm Dome, Jerry Ewing, Dave Ling The 30 albums that define heavy metal as we know it
The unlikely story of Tesla, the ultimate blue collar rockers By Dave Ling Gimmicks? You can keep 'em. This is the story of Tesla, five working-class kids from Sacramento who sold millions
Rob Halford Q&A: His best Lemmy story and why he won't be joining Twitter By Dave Ling A joyous and, at times, emotional chat with Judas Priest legend Rob Halford
The Marshall Tucker Band: how to spend a million dollars on cocaine, pot and Scotch whisky By Dave Ling The Marshall Tucker Band sold millions of records in the 70s and 80s, and never really escaped from the shadow of Skynyrd and the Allmans. But that didn’t stop them having a hell of a good time
Heather Findlay interview: "There's a prog opus in me yet!" By Dave Ling Singer songwriter Heather Findlay discusses her album Wild White Horses
