Articles by Dom Lawson

Dimmu Borgir: The story behind new album Eonian

By Dom Lawson

Dimmu Borgir have spent two decades winding up black metal elitists. But has Eonian, their first album in eight years, seen them return to their extreme roots? Um, not quite. Shagrath and Silenoz explain all...

The new Tool album: 5 things we want from it

By Dom Lawson

12 years after Tool’s last album, anticipation for the new album is reaching fever pitch. To help speed things up, here are a few things we want – no, demand! – from it

Sinsaenum – Repulsion For Humanity album review

By Dom Lawson

Deathly all-stars Sinsaenum keep aiming for the jugular on Repulsion For Humanity

The 10 best Tool songs of all time

By Dom Lawson

It's seeming increasingly likely that the wait for Tool's new album might almost be over - maybe. To get you in the mood for new material, here are their best songs to date

New Band Of The Week: Reprisal

By Dom Lawson

With their heart in the past but their eyes on the future, Reprisal join Power Trip in the latest wave of killer 21st-century thrash bands

New Band Of The Week: King Witch

By Dom Lawson

The Scottish doom metal machine King Witch have slowed things down to fuck with their own formula

Yob – Our Raw Heart album review

By Dom Lawson

Oregon’s psych-doom colossus Yob rises again with Our Raw Heart

Monotheist – Scourge album review

By Dom Lawson

Monotheist's Scourge is prog-death supremacy from the Sunshine State

F*cked & Bound – Suffrage album review

By Dom Lawson

F*cked & Bound bring raging, destruction-inducing hardcore from the dirty streets of Seattle with Suffrage

Kataklysm – Meditations album review

By Dom Lawson

Canada’s dogged melodeath deviants Kataklysm click into a new groove with Meditations

Burn The Priest – Legion: XX album review

By Dom Lawson

Lamb Of God salute their punk and hardcore heroes

Amorphis – Queen Of Time album review

By Dom Lawson

Pioneering Finns Amorphis keep delivering the stirring goods

Portugal's mindbending black metallers Gaerea unveil a blistering new track

By Dom Lawson

Premiere Wrap your head around Catharsis, taken from Gaerea's self-titled new album

Dimmu Borgir – Eonian album review

By Dom Lawson

The prodigal blackhearts Dimmu Borgir return in renewed splendour

Lik – Carnage album review

By Dom Lawson

Scando-death’s buzzsaw-wielding new breed Lik hit the jackpot

A track-by-track guide to Dimmu Borgir's new album Eonian

By Dom Lawson

Dimmu Borgir's Shagrath and Silenoz provide a guide to every song on new album Eonian

The story of Love, or how The Cult divided their fans and defined their career

By Dom Lawson

The inside story of how the Love album divided The Cult's audience, confounded their critics and created a hit single that would come to define their careers

New Band Of The Week: Cabal

By Dom Lawson

How could Copenhagen death metallers Cabal make their debut even more crushing? Bringing in a certain Thy Art Is Murder frontman…

Tesseract – Sonder album review

By Dom Lawson

Prog metal’s chief scientists Tesseract bring back the riffs

Metallica in 1987 standing against a yellow wall

Metallica – The $5.98 EP: Garage Days Re-Revisited review

By Dom Lawson

Metallica have reissued and remastered The $5.98 EP: Garage Days EP

Behemoth – Messe Noire album review

By Dom Lawson

Nergal’s unstopabble force go full Satanist with their Messe Noire live album

Love And Rockets: How three British goths broke America

By Dom Lawson

Post Peter Murphy, the remaining members of Bauhaus reconvened to form Love And Rockets. Much to everyone’s surprise, America welcomed them with open arms…

Winterfylleth – The Hallowing Of Heirdom album review

By Dom Lawson

Winterfylleth bring the grit and grandeur of Ancient Britain unplugged

Cover art for Philip H Anselmo And The Illegals - Choosing Mental Illness As A. Virtue

Philip H Anselmo And The Illegals - Choosing Mental Illness As A...album review

By Dom Lawson

Ex-Pantera man comes screaming back from the abyss

Art for 70,000 Tons Of Metal live at The Independence Of The Seas Florida/ Caribbean

70,000 Tons Of Metal at The Independence Of The Seas - live review

By Dom Lawson

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Alestorm, Meshuggah and Cannibal Corpse wreck senses on the high seas