Great British Bake Off’s Noel Fielding: 10 albums that changed my life By Dom Lawson The Mighty Boosh and Great British Bake Off star Noel Fielding loves Motörhead, hates Coldplay
Holy Moses revolutionised the 80s thrash scene. Why don't more people know about them? By Dom Lawson Amid the boys club of 80s thrash, Holy Moses frontwoman Sabine Classen stood out. It’s time to give her band the credit they deserve
Finntroll’s Vredesvävd: folk-metal icons serve up mischief and malevolence on epic comeback album By Dom Lawson O.G. folk metal fiends Finntroll make their long-awaited return with Vredesvävd. To the forest!
How Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls became an epic triumph over adversity By Dom Lawson In this classic 2015 interview, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris reveal the secrets behind Iron Maiden’s most ambitious album ever – and the cancer diagnosis that changed everything
Oceans Of Slumber’s stellar new album is a turbulent masterpiece for our times By Dom Lawson Oceans Of Slumber’s self-titled new album is an epic statement of intent from one of modern metal’s brightest hopes
Every King Diamond and Mercyful Fate album ranked from worst to best By Dom Lawson Grandmaaaaaaa! We rank King Diamond and Mercyful Fate’s albums from worst to Beelzebubian best
Incantation’s Sect Of Vile Divinities: a hissing hate-swamp of old school death metal glory By Dom Lawson Death metal diehards Incantation return to top form on new album Sect Of Vile Divinities
The 20 best Motörhead songs ever By Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome Motörhead recorded more than 250 songs during their 40-year career. Here are the 20 best
Rumahoy’s Time II: Party: pirate metallers’ new album goes better with grog By Dom Lawson Scurvy dogs Rumahoy narrowly avoid walking the plank on new album Time II: Party
10 essential groove metal albums By Dom Lawson From Pantera to Pissing Razors, this is the groove metal experience at its cranium-crunching best
Primal Fear's Metal Commando: unashamedly brutish and balls-out By Dom Lawson Lucky thirteenth for German pure metal stalwarts Primal Fear on Metal Commando
How Pantera invented 90s metal with Cowboys From Hell By Dom Lawson Just when the world thought metal was on its last legs, four brawlers from Texas arrived with an album that nobody saw coming...
Corpsing’s Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants: UKDM ragers go for the jugular By Dom Lawson Corpsing’s new album Civilisation Under Nefarious Tyrants prove UK death metal is alive and seething
This man single handedly invented death metal… in 1979 By Dom Lawson He founded death metal visionaries Possessed before a gunshot wound left him partially paralysed. Now Jeff Becerra is finally getting the respect he’s due
Aleah’s posthumous new album is a spectral reminder of a great lost talent By Dom Lawson Magical melancholy from late Tears Of Eternity singer Aleah Starbridge
Dub War’s Pain: ragga-metal and revolution on a lost 90s classic By Dom Lawson Before he put together Skindred, Benji Webbe was starting a ragga-metal revolution with Dub War
Gentle Giant premiere fan video of Proclamation By Dom Lawson Gentle Giant band members reunite for the first time since 1980 with new video for Proclamation
Gentle Giant reunite for new version of Proclamation By Dom Lawson Gentle Giant members reunite virtually for first time since 1980 along with members of King Crimson, Yes and more
Monster Magnet’s Dave Wyndorf: My Life Story By Dom Lawson An audience with Monster Magnet frontman and Lord High Priest Of Stoner Rock Dave Wyndorf
How the greatest thrash band you’ve (probably) never heard made the comeback album of the decade By Dom Lawson New Orleans’ Exhorder nailed groove metal before Pantera, only to disappear into obscurity. Nearly 30 years later, they returned with the album of their career
Megadeth’s Rust In Peace: the inside story of the greatest thrash album of the ’90s By Dom Lawson How a newly cleaned-up Megadeth made Rust In Peace – the 1990 masterpiece that sealed their place in thrash metal’s Big Four
How Indonesia built the world’s most exciting underground metal scene By Dom Lawson In 2019, we spent a week deep in Indonesia’s vibrant metal scene with grindcore icons Burgerkill. This is what we found
10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great By Fraser Lewry, Dom Lawson, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Sleazegrinder, Stephen Hill, Rob Hughes, Dave Ling, Alec Chillingworth Everybody's got to start somewhere, and some of our very best bands started slowly. Here's 10 great bands whose debut albums weren't actually great
10 essential jazz metal albums By Dom Lawson Mind-expanding transmissions from the fringes where metal and jazz collide
Wino's Forever Gone: a reassuring voice in troubled times By Dom Lawson The king of American doom Wino goes soulfully solo on Forever Gone
