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.
Latest articles by Dave Everley

By Dave Everley Published
"Most of what I listen to in my car is Adele. She's the greatest vocalist of her generation." Exodus are back, but don't expect retro thrash

By Matt Mills Published
The Dune, Skyfall and No Country For Old Men star appears in the British heavy metal band’s new documentary, Burning Ambition

By Dave Everley Published
Max Cavalera, Cristina Scabbia, Scott Ian and more grill Randy Blythe in an all-star interview

By Dave Everley Published
Backstage boss Stewart Young took one look at the prototype in 1974 and decided to walk away – but the keyboard maestro wouldn’t have it

By Dave Everley Published
Static-X became main eventers of nu metal's second wave thanks to their classic banger, Push It

By Dave Everley Published
Beset by overwork, listless colleagues and a family tragedy, Mikael Åkerfeldt felt like splitting the Swedish group apart as they worked through 2002’s Deliverance to get to 2003’s Damnation

By Dave Everley Published
Black Sabbath’s Ozzy Osbourne and Tony Iommi on the legendary Black Zeppelin jam – the greatest session you’ve never heard

By Dave Everley Published
Therapy?’s 1994 album Troublegum united the tribes like few other things

By Dave Everley Published
Grindcore made thrash metal sound like Celine Dion

By Dave Everley, Paul Travers Published
It's a long way to the top, if you play rock'n'roll

By Dave Everley Published
Motörhead's shelved would-have-been debut album gets the box set treatment it doesn’t need

By Dave Everley Published
They met when Palmer stood in with Fleetwood Mac for a show with The Nice. Half a century of amazing music and friendship followed. The drummer reveals what they’d be doing today if Emerson was still alive

By Dave Everley Published
Few artists in modern metal have had a career quite like Myrkur

By Dave Everley Published
A candid interview with Blaze Bayley from 2023

By Matt Mills Published
Playing in Metallica’s rival band didn’t stop him from loving their landmark third album same as everyone else

By Matt Mills Published
80s producer Flemming Rasmussen remembers Cliff Burton being the heavy metal titans’ unofficial musical leader

By Metal Hammer Published
From legends like Iron Maiden and Metallica to rising stars such as Bloodywood and Spiritbox, these are the metal albums that have defined the 2020s so far

By Dave Everley Published
TV creative used to hire Steven Wilson to make ad music. In the late 90s they wrote a film together. They’re still waiting to make it

By Dave Everley Published
Dominic Garcia was Deftones' original bassist, but a misunderstanding ended his tenure long before they'd eventually blow up

By Dave Everley Published
Singer/guitarist/actor/Time Lord Peter Capaldi picks his records, artists and gigs of lasting significance

By Dave Everley Published
The greatest song ever to feature vocals from the singer’s pet dog

By Rich Hobson Published
We asked some of metal's biggest names to share which Motorhead songs mean most to them

By Dave Everley Published
Buying guide His musical vision was rejected by everyone. Then, like a bat out of hell, he went from a nobody to being hailed as a musical genius
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