Articles by 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

"Not quite rock, not quite prog, not quite metal, but simultaneously a little and none of each": The Anathema albums you should definitely listen to

By Dave Everley published 29 May 24

Hailed as heirs to classic Pink Floyd before their hiatus, much-missed Liverpudlian rockers Anathema had a unique, commanding catalogue

“Nothing sounded like it at the time. Nothing sounds like it now. It’s a beast!”: meet the doom metal legend who obsessively collects vinyl versions of Black Sabbath‘s debut album

By Dave Everley published 25 May 24

Candlemass bassist Leif Edling owns way more copies of Black Sabbath’s debut album than you

"It was unbelievable. Every second was an inspiration": How a single show rejuvenated the Scorpions and sent them on the path to superstardom

By Dave Everley published 21 May 24

With two members “smashed after touring”, the Scorpions‘ career was wobbling. Then the Love At First Sting album turned them into global icons

“It was an intense process being in this band. By the end, everyone was, like, ‘I don’t need to see you again, ever’”: the rise, fall and spectacular resurrection of Faith No More

By Dave Everley published 19 May 24

How Faith No More’s brilliant 2015 album Sol Invictus completed the most unlikely comeback of the 21st century

AC/DC’s Angus Young performing onstage at the Veltsin Arena in Gelsnekirchen, Germany

“The comeback few expected but everyone wanted”: AC/DC’s Power Up tour – the first review

By Dave Everley published 18 May 24

AC/DC kicked off their first tour in eight years with a show in Germany. We were there

“Life is to be lived, and lived well… there’s a feeling of carpe diem across the whole album”: Big Big Train loaded Grand Tour with intergalactic ambitions

By Dave Everley published 17 May 24

Inspired by journeys across 250 million years, Gregory Spawton and the late David Longdon intended the band’s 12th album to be bigger in scale than anything they’d done before

Kerry King's From Hell I Rise: The best Slayer album Slayer never made

By Dave Everley published 17 May 24

On solo album From Hell I Rise Kerry King sounds like he's having more fun than he had in years with his old band

A montage of Freddie Mercury, Kurt Cobain, David Bowie and Jim Morrison

The first and last lyrics sung on record by 20 legendary bands

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

From The Beatles and Bowie to Freddie Mercury and Kurt Cobain and, these are the first and last lines sung on record by rock’s biggest bands

"We were like, ‘These guys are just like us, this is crazy! We want to hack things up with machetes with them!’” Members of Metallica, Megadeth, Ghost and more talk the years that made Slayer into the ultimate thrash icons

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

Slayer might not have been the first band in thrash metal, but they became the genre's ultimate champions

“I’ve been writing these pieces over the years… I thought, ‘They sound pretty good.’ Then you end up rewriting half the stuff!” Oliver Wakeman’s Anam Cara began in 2002

By Dave Everley published 10 May 24

Celtic-themed album, featuring Hayley Griffiths and, Troy Donockley, is spiritual successor to his collaboration with Steve Howe

David Gilmour, Syd Barrett and Roger Waters

The Pink Floyd solo albums you should definitely own

By Dave Everley published 7 May 24

Freed from the rivalry and constraints within Pink Floyd, the band members held nothing back on their solo endeavours – and here are their best albums

"It's such a limiting genre": After three albums of blues-rock, the Kris Barras Band have ramped up the heaviness

By Dave Everley published 6 May 24

Kris Barras on the people in power, top advice from Billy Gibbons, and being a "Poundshop version" of Richie Kotzen

“Some of our peers thought, ‘Are they going to be corporate sell-outs?’ I don’t know if was jealousy or a feeling of betrayal”: the rise, fall and return of Soundgarden

By Dave Everley published 5 May 24

In 2014, Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil sat down with Metal Hammer to look back over his band’s rollercoaster career

"I didn't do a thing in the music industry until I was twenty-nine": Billy Morrison is a success story 30 years in the making

By Dave Everley published 29 April 24

Taking time out from playing with big names, Billy Morrison has made an album of his own, with Ozzy and more guesting

"People used it to mourn to": In the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, one song captured the mood of a nation and turned Live into unprepared superstars

By Dave Everley published 25 April 24

Live's heartfelt anthem became a beacon and spirited Throwing Copper to the top of the charts: Not bad for a small-town band from Pennsylvania

"OU frequently sound like they’ve beamed in from the 25th century." Devin Townsend-approved Chinese metallers OU take prog metal into strange new worlds on II: Frailty

By Dave Everley published 25 April 24

Hailing from Beijing and sounding like they come from outer space, China's OU are pushing boundaries with new album II: Frailty

Joe Elliott at Sister Ray Records in London

"Me, Bono and Bowie hijacked a Mini and drove to this restaurant where the Edge was to sing him Happy Birthday": What happened when we went record shopping with Joe Elliott

By Dave Everley published 18 April 24

We gave Def Leppard's Joe Elliott £50

"What is this band about? I’m not sure. I like that it’s a mystery to me.” Meet five excellent young bands inspired by Tool

By Dannii Leivers published 17 April 24

Hawxx, Ou, Mountain Caller, Wheel and Every Hell are channelling current Metal Hammer cover stars Tool in a variety of weird and wonderful ways

Richie Faulkner and Rob Halford onstage, and a studio portrait of Rob Halford

"You look at all these people who are giving you the horns, from Eminem to Lionel Ritchie, and you think: Is this really happening?": Judas Priest on awards shows, Invincible Shield and the beauty of cats

By Dave Everley published 16 April 24

With Invincible Shield their third genuinely great album in a row, Judas Priest's late-career purple patch continues

“We didn’t force a connection, it just happened.” Steve Howe remembers a fledgling Yes supporting Jethro Tull in America in 1971

By Dave Everley published 15 April 24

Supporting an already-established Jethro Tull in America helped Yes in their way to star status

“Drugs were everywhere in New York. Everybody knew at least five people who had OD’d. I always learned from other people’s mistakes”: the unlikely rise and sudden fall of White Zombie

By Dave Everley published 11 April 24

White Zombie’s final album Astro-Creep: 2000 was released on this day in1995. Rob Zombie looks back on the band’s unlikely success

A montage of metal musicians with their pets

“Anyone who doesn’t talk to their pets is a psychopath!” We asked a bunch of metal stars to tell us about their pets on International Pet Day

By Dave Everley published 11 April 24

Dogs, cats, ponies, goats, ducks – to mark International Pet Day, we asked members of Killswitch Engage, Amon Amarth, Green Lung and more to tell us about the animals they share their lives with

"At one point an aggrieved producer threatened to attack them with a machete": Say what you want about Marillion's second album, but it was not easy to make

By Dave Everley published 11 April 24

Buoyed by the success of Script For A Jester's Tear, follow-up Fugazi was a victim of extremely difficult second album syndrome

“It was inspiring to see how Metallica worked. I had their posters before I had my first guitar”: how Volbeat’s Michael Poulsen stepped up to metal’s big league

By Dave Everley published 1 April 24

The story of Volbeat’s Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies album

Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson onstage in 1994

“I believed we would not get back together. I thought Rush was a place Neil was not going to be able to go back to emotionally”: how Rush survived the 1990s and early 2000s

By Dave Everley published 30 March 24

Rush refound their rock spirit in the 1990s – only to be blindsided by personal tragedy

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