Dom Lawson

The classic Rick Wakeman album inspired by a mythical king, Ziggy Stardust and a heart attack

By Dave Everley, Dom Lawson Published 13 September 26

The Myths And Legends Of King Arthur was Rick Wakeman’s most ambitious solo album

The wild and wonderful story of Primus: the world's weirdest band

By Dom Lawson Published 12 September 26

From auditioning for Metallica to writing one of TV's most iconic theme tunes and irritating a Hollywood star, Primus are the world's weirdest band - and proud

Candiria’s sound of New York City played Tool, Meshuggah and Devin Townsend at their own game

By Dom Lawson Published 4 September 26

Brooklyn boys’ 1999 album The Process Of Self-Development still feels ahead of its time, and all the more prog for it

Every Iron Maiden album ranked from worst to best

By Dom Lawson Published 4 September 26

As the Beast celebrate their golden anniversary on the Run For Your Lives world tour, we revisit their monumental catalogue

The 'bad' metal albums that are much better than you remember

By Rich Hobson, Merlin Alderslade, Justin Breckner, Joe Daly, Eleanor Goodman, Perran Helyes, Stephen Hill, Dom Lawson, Hannah May Kilroy, Matt Mills, Jonathan Selzer Published 31 August 26

From Iron Maiden to Metallica, Slayer to Guns N' Roses, these are the 'dud' albums that deserve a second look

“We don’t care about technology. Only the result matters”: Was Jean-Michel Jarre right about the future of music?

By Dom Lawson Published 24 August 26

As he released his most recent album Oxymore, he celebrated the fact he’d lived through three moments of major disruption – and looked forward to more

“It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs

By Dom Lawson Published 5 August 26

Guitarist recalls his first stint in the late Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog

“I was struggling. I had a real problem with alcohol again”: Napalm Death’s Shane Embury goes prog to search his soul

By Dom Lawson Published 4 August 26

The bassist’s desire to “jump into the unknown” inspired Bridge To Revolution, his most progressive album yet, as the Rush fanatic continues work on his Cardiacs-inspired project

How Angel Witch wrote one of the great overlooked metal anthems of the early 80s

By Dom Lawson Published 26 July 26

Angel Witch’s Angel Witch was one of the great anthems of the NWOBHM era – so why didn’t it turn them into stars?

The Iron Maiden album that was “locked in a vault” for two years

By Dom Lawson Published 25 July 26

Iron Maiden finished their epic Senjutsu album in 2019 – but the pandemic meant it wouldn’t be released for two more years

“It starts clear, gets hedonistic, and the weird stuff goes on at night”: Ozric Tentacles and Lotus Unfolding

By Dom Lawson Published 24 July 26

As they launched 2023 album Lotus Unfolding, Ed Wynne considered his band’s four-decade career – but not too deeply

XTC mixed prog and punk, and it was named ’prunk’

By Dom Lawson Published 22 July 26

Their heyday wasn’t the best time to admit it, but Andy Partridge confirms the band were driven by Yes, BeBop Deluxe, Captain Beefheart and Todd Rundgren

How The Damned embraced the darkness to make a classic 80s goth album

By Dom Lawson Published 19 July 26

With 1985’s Phanasmagoria, The Damned made one of the great goth-punk albums

“If I’d known the albums would last I’d have done better!” Genesis artist Colin Elgie’s year in the limelight

By Dom Lawson Published 18 July 26

Even though his squonk was nothing like the band’s squonk, the Hipgnosis stringer’s work on A Trick Of The Tail led to a return gig, while he also created art for Renaissance and Al Stewart

The rise, fall and triumphant return of Corrosion of Conformity

By Dom Lawson Published 4 July 26

80s crossover pioneers, 90s stoner metal icons... and then tragedy derailed them in the 2000s. But after a triumphant return in 2015, CoC are stronger than ever

The 50 best rock albums of 2026 (so far)

By Fraser Lewry Published 2 July 26

Six months of classic rock, prog rock, stoner rock, southern rock, country rock, blues rock, psychedelic rock, hard rock, power pop, heavy metal, punk and all forms of rock'n'roll

“My career has been about getting it slightly, wonkily wrong”: Peter Hammill’s maverick life in prog

By Dom Lawson Published 30 June 26

Standing apart from the crowd can be a hazardous business, but the Van der Graaf Generator veteran has always made it look easy

“We’re giving people candy with razor blades in it!” Crippled Black Phoenix on radically caring about the world

By Dom Lawson Published 24 June 26

Rejecting efforts to silence and define them, their new album Sceaduhelm is more thoughtful than ever – but also more accessible

The “really evil” bandleader who was more challenging than Peter Gabriel and Robert Fripp

By Dom Lawson Published 13 June 26

Despite a huge range of experience, bassist easily identifies the person he found most difficult to work with

The story of Machine Head’s Burn My Eyes, the game-changing album that revitalised 90s metal

By Dom Lawson Published 5 June 26

Machine Head’s Robb Flynn looks back on the making of his band’s classic debut

How a deteriorating DevilDriver made Clouds Over California

By Dom Lawson Published 3 June 26

Even as Dez Fafara’s melodeath riff-slingers were falling apart, they masterminded one of their era’s most enduring singles

The pioneering European metal queen loved by Dio, Lemmy and Gene Simmons

By Dom Lawson Published 29 May 26

The life and times of Doro Pesch

If you can’t connect Sunn O))) with King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis, let them explain

By Dom Lawson Published 12 May 26

If you can’t connect the drone metal heroes with King Crimson, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Miles Davis, allow co-founder Greg Anderson to explain

“I saw Frank Zappa sit in with Pink Floyd. He was terrible”: Swans’ Michael Gira

By Dom Lawson Published 9 May 26

The lifelong experimental rocker believes only the first three Mothers Of Invention albums are worth listening to, because after that Zappa succumbed to “unfortunate prog tendencies”