How Century Media Records changed metal forever By Dom Lawson Over three decades of noise, Century Media have helped to shape the sound of metal itself. As the heavyweight label celebrates 30 years, we relive its amazing journey
Jonestown: Dyatlov album review By Dom Lawson Brighton bruisers Jonestown return on devastating form with Dyatlov
Welcome to Prog Limelight band Frequency Drift By Dom Lawson Cinematic soundscapes meet captivating prog, with added harp...
Does it actually matter that Yuimetal has left Babymetal? By Dom Lawson Yuimetal has stepped down from the Babymetal ranks, but will it affect the band?
New Band Of The Week: Primordial Swarm By Dom Lawson Taking extremity into a horrifying new future, Primordial Swarm have created the soundtrack for a science-fiction nightmare
Skálmöld – Sorgir album review By Dom Lawson Skálmöld deliber more stirring hymns to the glorious, frozen North with Sorgir
If you want a big rock show, you have to pay for it By Dom Lawson Metallica tickets aren't cheap, but why should they be?
The 10 best Machine Head songs By Dom Lawson The top 10 best songs from chameleonic Californian metallers Machine Head
Voivod – The Wake album review By Dom Lawson Canada’s prog metal kings Voivod take a tumultuous trip on The Wake
Madder Mortem – Marrow album review By Dom Lawson Long-running dark progressive denizens Madder Mortem find a higher gear with Marrow
Every Song on Black Sabbath's Paranoid ranked from worst to best By Dom Lawson It may have been released 48 years ago, but Black Sabbath’s Paranoid has lost none of its unearthly power. Even when you rank its mighty contents in order of ascending greatness
New Band Of The Week: Godeater By Dom Lawson How do you cram a tech-death juggernaut into 150 seconds? Godeater are keeping it fast and heavy
Finnish death/black diabolists Archgoat stream their new album in full By Dom Lawson Premiere Damn your soul to Archgoat's deity-defiling The Luciferian Crown, and get the lowdown from guitarist Ritual Butcherer too
Uriah Heep - Living The Dream album review By Dom Lawson Mick Box and co. notch up album number 25 in fine and furious style
Deicide – Overtures Of Blasphemy album review By Dom Lawson Glen Benton’s back and he still hates Jesus
Clutch – Book Of Bad Decisions album reviewed By Dom Lawson Maryland’s rock mainstays Clutch take the scenic route to greatness with Book Of Bad Decisions
New Band Of The Week: Black Fast By Dom Lawson Power Trip may have kicked the door down for thrash’s next wave, but Black Fast are taking it to gnarlier new realms
The story behind I Am The Law by Anthrax By Dom Lawson Anthrax's Scott Ian delves inside the comic-powered song that took the thrash icons to greatness
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
