Latest articles by Dave Everley
How Nightwish become the planet’s most epic symphonic metal band with Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Nightwish endured line-up changes and self-doubt to swing for the fences with 2015’s Endless Forms Most Beautiful
"There’s a lot less ‘James Hetfield strangling a goat’ in the singing department."
Volbeat know their formula and stick to it well - for better and worse
Brilliant new metal bands you need to hear in June 2025
From heavygaze hard-hitters Love Is Noise and Blasphemer-sporting black metallers Ruim to Calgary goths Poltergeist and nu-gen punk Bex, these are the bands you need to hear in June 2025
“If you don’t get it, you’re all idiots!” He conquered the charts and now he wants to compete with the greats. Is Yungblud the rock star we need right now?
Yungblud collabs with Louder to discuss new album Idols Pt 1 and taking his seat at the 'big boys' table'. "Rock music has got such a turned-up nose…”
How Judas Priest rose above darkness and death to make Turbo, their most divisive album
1986’s Turbo remains the most underrated album Judas Priest’s catalogue
Love/Hate frontman Jizzy Pearl on new album Punk Rock Fiesta and rock'n'roll's magic carpet ride
Although Love/Hate coulda, maybe shoulda, but didn’t, everpresent frontman Jizzy Pearl is happy with his/their lot
The wild story of Goo Goo Dolls’ A Boy Named Goo, the album that turned three punk kids into A-list stars
A Boy Named Goo and megahit Name turned Goo Goo Dolls in alt-rock superstars nearly 10 years into their career
How Bush’s Gavin Rossdale channelled frustration and loss into epic grunge ballad Glycerine
Glycerine was the dark ballad that helped turbocharge Bush’s multi-platinum debut album Sixteen Stone
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen are waging a two-man war on the modern world with Smith/Kotzen
Transatlantic supergroup Smith/Kotzen is the sound of two worlds colliding
10 epic ballads that show there was more to thrash metal than speed
There was more to thrash metal than speed
Bumblefoot on wrangling famous guitarists, his new album, and the celebrity hot sauce community
One-time GN’R guitarist Ron ‘Bumblefoot’ Thal has a finger in more than one pie – and sauce to put on it
Steven Wilson delivers a masterclass in interstellar prog at his first solo show in six years
Steven Wilson kicked off his first solo tour in six years in Stockholm last night. We were there
How Big Big Train took on modern issues in old ways on Grimspound
Released soon after Folklore, their 10th album merged mythology, astrology and astronomy to deliver Englishness to the world
H.E.A.T tighten their grip on the modern melodic rock crown on Welcome To The Future
Swedish kings H.E.A.T brilliantly buck fashions on seventh studio album Welcome To The Future
Four Iron Maiden songs that sound nothing like Iron Maiden
Even Iron Maiden like to throw a few curveballs into their back catalogue
"It sounds like Dream Theater doing a pastiche of Bon Jovi songs": Did Extreme over-egg the funk-rock pudding on III Sides To Every Story?
Extreme's third album, the three-part III Sides To Every Story, was the sound of a band over-reaching themselves
Four songs that will make you rethink everything you know about Queen
Think you have a handle on Queen’s sound? These songs sound like nothing else they recorded
Those Damn Crows score their first UK No.1 album with God Shaped Hole
Rock is officially back on top again
The epic story of Monsters Of Rock, the greatest heavy metal festival of them all
The triumphs, the bottlings, the rucks, the rain – long-running festival Monsters Of Rock changed hard rock and heavy metal forever
Mikael Åkerfeldt’s peers list the reasons they like and admire him
Steven Wilson, Mike Portnoy, Steve Hackett and Arjen Lucassen list the reasons they like and admire Opeth leader Mikael Åkerfeldt
Black Spiders' 20-year career has been littered with hurdles and drawbacks, but now they're back
And his time they’re doing it all on their own terms
The 50 greatest Iron Maiden moments
From playing to a room filled with nuns to losing a drum battle against a teddy bear, these moments helped make Iron Maiden Britain's most iconic metal band
Masters Of Reality's seventh album The Archer is lean, graceful and magnificent
A welcome return of cult desert-rock mystic Chris Goss
