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

"There have been pivotal moments, like playing with Metallica or Iron Maiden for the first time, where you go, ‘I can’t believe this is happening.’" We went to LA to see Ghost's world takeover reach yet another new peak

By Dave Everley published 15 November 23

From setting the stage for Sleep Token to making metal sexy again, Tobias Forge takes us inside the final days of Impera

"People talk about how brilliant it was that grunge wiped out hair metal. Listen, hair metal was way more fun:" Creeper are bringing character back to rock'n'roll and somewhere Jim Steinman is applauding

By Dave Everley published 14 November 23

Disillusioned with much of modern music and its presentation, Creeper up the drama and the slap and take things over-the-top with their new goth-rock vampire opera album

“It’s a place where outsiders live. When you’re getting hit in the face for being a dirty grunger, it’s a world to escape to.” How UK goth-punks Creeper crafted a deliciously dark new world for outcasts everywhere to hide in. With vampires.

By Dave Everley published 10 November 23

Creeper's Sanguivore is one of the albums of the year, and with it they - and in particular talismanic frontman Will Gould - have crafted a whole new world

"Their detractors slapped them down as cynical bandwagon jumpers... A great primer for a band who eventually proved their worth": Bush's Loaded - The Greatest Hits

By Dave Everley published 10 November 23

A definitive overview of 90s alt.rock survivors Bush's career

The best metal albums of 2023 so far

By Rich Hobson published 8 November 23

From Metallica to Babymetal, Cattle Decapitation to Sleep Token, these are the best metal albums of the year to date

Corey Taylor: My stories of Lemmy, Dimebag Darrell, Ozzy Osbourne, Metallica, Björk and more

By Dave Everley published 7 November 23

Slipknot's Corey Taylor heard the world’s dirtiest joke from Lemmy, hung out with Björk, battled Dave Grohl at table tennis, raided Metallica’s fridge, talked ‘weirdness’ with Mike Patton and almost joined Anthrax

Meat Loaf in costume for the 'I Would Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)' music video

Still wondering what Meat Loaf wouldn't do for love? Then read the lyrics

By Dave Everley published 6 November 23

The story behind Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman's mega-hit I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)

“The universe and self and the inside of ourselves is all the same thing, depending on which end you look down the telescope”: Gong continue a “loose trilogy” with Unending Ascending

By Dave Everley published 3 November 23

Kavus Torabi explains the themes behind the band’s third album after the death of Daevid Allen

Various Iron Maiden Eddies across the years

Metal Hammer's writers battle it out to decide which is Iron Maiden's best album

By Merlin Alderslade published 1 November 23

Iron Maiden have made some absolute classics across their near-five decade career, so we got the Maiden megafans in our ranks to argue over which is the greatest album of them all

Kiss backstage at the 1996 Grammy Awards

"The farewell tour was us wanting to put Kiss out of its misery:" How Kiss's long-awaited reunion turned into a catastrophe

By Dave Everley published 31 October 23

For Kiss, the 90s was a roller-coaster decade that took them from the lows of a shelved ‘grunge’ album to a money-spinning reunion to a cataclysmic fall-out. Roll up and step into the Psycho Circus

Manic Street Preachers, Free’s Paul Rodgers, Marc Bolan, Slade, The Damned’s Dave Vanian, Statius Quo

10 massively successful British bands who failed to crack America

By Dave Everley published 28 October 23

Not every band can be as huge as The Beatles or Led Zeppelin in America – just ask Slade, The Small Faces and Status Quo

Mötley Crüe: Shout At The Devil (40th Anniversary) cover art

Tarot cards, a ouija board and a demonic pottery candleholder: the deluxe version of Mötley Crüe's best album is an OTT wonder

By Dave Everley published 27 October 23

Mötley Crüe's glam-metal foundation stone Shout At The Devil gets the luxury 40th-anniversary treatment

"Don't get me started on Rick Wakeman!" Rick Astley's never gonna give prog up!

By Dave Everley published 24 October 23

Pop star Rick Astley reveals his love of Rick Wakeman, Yes, Camel and more in the latest issue of Prog

“I was on heroin, I’d torched my marriage, I was homeless and penniless”: the rise, fall and rise again of hard rock survivors Little Caesar

By Dave Everley published 21 October 23

Little Caesar should have been the next big band to come out of the late 80s Sunset Strip scene – but everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong

“If you want to put a band together, I’ve worked with all the greats”: Ozzy Osbourne once tried to recruit a backing band for Rick Astley

By Dave Everley published 20 October 23

Could Zakk Wylde have been in Rick Astley‘s backing band? Yes, if Ozzy had anything to do with it

“People won’t make a connection between Rush and Napalm Death, but we’ve included some of their more odd timings into our music”: Shane Embury, prog fan

By Dave Everley published 20 October 23

Bassist fascinated with how drummer and lyricist Neil Peart “saw the layers in life”

Duff McKagan's Lighthouse: "A long way from the howling urban venom and party-hard hedonism of GN'R in their prime"

By Dave Everley published 20 October 23

Guns N' Roses bassist Duff McKagan delivers full-beam brilliance on his third solo album, Lighthouse

10 classic Queen songs you won’t hear on the radio

By Dave Everley published 19 October 23

10 unsung Queen classics that truly made the band who they are but aren't Bohemian Rhapsody or any of the other massive radio hits you hear every day

"The paramedics said, ‘If it had been another 10 minutes, I don’t think he would be here": From having glasses thrown at him in Wolfsbane to trial-by-fire in Iron Maiden, Blaze Bayley is heavy metal's ultimate survivor

By Dave Everley published 18 October 23

Blaze Bayley reflects on a life in heavy metal, from the turbulent early days of Wolfsbane to fronting Iron Maiden, overcoming tragedy and reckoning with his own mortality

Motley Crue’s Vince Neil, Sex Pistols Johnny Rotten, Limp Bizkit’s Fred Durst and The Who’s Pete Townshend

10 cover versions absolutely hated by the people who originally wrote them

By Dave Everley published 15 October 23

Good or bad, it didn’t matter – these cover versions attracted the ire of their original authors

“Getting to Architects’ or Bring Me The Horizon’s level would be a huge step up.” How Tesseract pushed themselves further than ever to become prog metal's most ambitious modern band with War of Being

By Dave Everley published 13 October 23

From a dizzying concept to an accompanying video game and (hopefully) a novel, Tesseract's newest chapter is seeing them reach new heights of ambition

Essex deathcore, Mumbai post-metal and an underground noise supergroup: these are the best new metal bands you need in your life this month

By Merlin Alderslade published 11 October 23

Looking for something new and heavy to listen to? We've got you covered

"The new, sober Alice was much more dangerous than the old Alice:" How Alice Cooper cleaned up and became a pop star all over again

By Dave Everley published 11 October 23

Seemingly washed up at the beginning of the 80s, Alice Cooper got his act together, and before the decade was over he was sober, straight and right back in the game – and the charts