Dave Everley

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

Mick Jones reveals how Mutt Lange and a young British keyboard wizard helped steer Foreigner out of a difficult time

In 2023, Extreme released their first new album in 15 years, Six. Guitarist Nino Bettencourt also found time to play at the Super Bowl with Rihanna and bust his knee playing basketball

They played Eurovision, met the king and toured with Iron Maiden - but 2023 was just another wild year for Germany's Lord Of The Lost

Mocked by most of the UK press, Bradford band New Model Army have remained as steadfastly uncompromising as they have unfashionable

Thirty years ago, Guns N’ Roses released The Spaghetti Incident?, an album of covers, and brought a load of mostly obscure, mostly punk-rock tracks to a wider audience

Tobias Forge remains tight-lipped on what Ghost's massive two-night LA residency was about, but does drop hints about the band's future going into 2024