Dave Everley

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

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

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

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

From AC/DC’s Highway To Hell to Foo Fighters’ Everlong, these are the song Rick Astley is never gonna give up

From his early days with Steve Vai to battling through mental health problems and explaining to Prog just why he prefers Beefheart over Zappa, there’s much to cover in this therapeutic discussion…

Watch a pre-fame Slayer play a show in Anaheim, California several months before debut album Show No Mercy came out

Mick Mars looks back on his career, from his early days on Sunset Strip to his years as an unlikely metal superstar

Two years on from the death of Taylor Hawkins, we remember and celebrate the life of the Foo Fighters drummer, natural showman and perennial 'Mister Fanboy'

Ozzy, Richie Blackmore, Gary Moore - keyboard maestro Don Airey has worked with them all and has the stories to prove it

A couple years before he met Randy Rhoads and released Blizzard Of Ozz, Ozzy Osbourne tried to launch a solo career with a different band

Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators start their European tour next week

At the start of the 90s, Roger Waters was up against it. An epic concert of The Wall in Berlin was the first brick in rebuilding his career, followed by his third solo album, Amused To Death

Mikael Åkerfeldt – who’d become band leader because no one else would do it – recalls the misery of making the landmark 2003 album which made him feel he could hold his own with the likes of Porcupine Tree

“They were like superheroes”: how Bill & Ted star Alex Winter fell in love with Kiss as a 10-year-old. Excellent!

The story of how Marillion made their second album, 1984's aptly titled Fugazi

The former Kiss guitarist on his latest solo album, continuing to have fun, and why you'll never see an Ace Frehley avatar in a million years

In an alternative universe, a late 60s Pink Floyd song could have taken them down an entirely different path

Six years on from FEAR beingreleased during a time of political turmoil, and yet nothing could have prepared Marillion for the challenges they’d face in making its follow-up

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

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

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

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

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