Dave Everley

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

Between Iron Maiden albums, tours, getting his pilot's license and beating throat cancer, it's been a long road for Bruce Dickinson's The Mandrake Project, but it's all proved worth it for one of the most ambitious multi-media releases of 2024

From Japanese Samurai metallers Ryujin to 'bimboviolence' pioneers BRAT, rising alt metal stars Alt Blk Era and mysterious black metallers The Sun's Journey Through The Night, these are the bands you need to hear in 2024

Tom Petty’s daughters, ex-bandmates and peers look back on the life of an American legend

Ex-Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler on motorbike crashes, the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame and his complicated relationship with his old band

Two bands, one name, one crazy gig – this is what happened when a pre-fame Slayer shared a bill with another band named Slayer

A song triggered by a conversation in a taxi, Easy Livin' broke Uriah Heep in the US, helped convert some of their harshest critics and propelled them into rock’s big league

In a career that's taken him from prog flag carrier to pop superstardom, Peter Gabriel has produced music of depth and originality - and these are his best albums

He’s risked the ire of Buddy Rich, kept time for naked hippies, told AC/DC he couldn’t join the band and watched his own band nearly split up over a Christmas song encore - among many other adventures

An album built around the impending demise of mankind is the last thing you’d expect from that bloke who used to be in Kajagoogoo

From returning icons to underground heroes and metal's next generation, these are the albums you should be excited about this year

Metallica have never covered Saxon on record – could an incident at their second ever show explain why?

When Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy announced the 2023 resurrection of Death Cult, goths went batshit and gig tickets sold like blackened coals. Here’s how the seminal band came into being

How Type O Negative brought gothic metal to the masses with an iron-clad classic album

Sepultura were already considered one of the most exciting bands in 90s metal. They just needed a song to take them to the next level

Guitarist nearly missed his chance to join Ian Anderson’s band in 1968 because he didn’t have the courage to call the number on the advert

As a restored version of Queen Rock Montreal hits IMAX, we look back on two gigs that went from the tetchy to the triumphant