Latest articles by Dom Lawson
How Dimmu Borgir made an irreligious symphonic black metal classic with In Sorte Diaboli
Dimmu Borgir sealed their status as black metal’s biggest band with 2007’s In Sorte Diaboli
“It was part of the job to destroy Genesis and Yes”: Captain Sensible loved prog, but hid it
The Damned guitarist on spending years ripping off the genre he professed to hate, and the obscure tracks he’d play on Desert Island Discs – if they’d ever let him appear
The unbelievable story of Def Leppard’s 80s hard rock masterpiece Hysteria
Four years, one near-fatal car crash and an ocean of booze in the making, Def Leppard’s Hysteria is the 80s hard rock album against which all others should be measured
The prog credentials of Mr. Bungle’s Disco Volante
Bizarre instrumentation and avant-garde construction made Mike Patton and co’s second album a curveball of epic proportions
Mikael Åkerfeldt, Bruce Soord and others pick their favourite Camel albums
Five prog musicians explain the lasting impact of Andy Latimer’s band
“I felt straight away that we were back": The power of music compelled Beardfish to return
Unable to decide on who should leave, the band of friends broke up in 2016. To their own surprise and delight, they’re back with new album Songs For Beating Hearts – and loving their work more than ever
Metal Hammer's 50 best albums of 2024
From Judas Priest's Invincible Shield to Nightwish's Yesterwynde and Opeth's return to extremity, these are the metal albums that ruled 2024
How Amon Amarth became the world’s favourite 21st century Viking metal berserkers
Amon Amarth’s 2008 album Twilight Of The Thunder God transformed them from death metal hopefuls into all-conquering Viking metal chieftains
How Porcupine Tree reinvented progressive rock for the 21st century metal generation
Porcupine Tree’s 2010 album The Incident capped their rise from cult psychedelicists to prog metal giants
Seven Impale’s City Of The Sun: 10th anniversary edition
Charting a different course from their Scandinavian contemporaries, new version of their debut album confirms they were right to record without a click track – or indeed brakes
For Faust, music has always been just a part of the art
Progressive in word and deed, the German group have never achieved the acclaim they deserve – but that’s never stopped them
Inside Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett’s lifelong love of horror
When it comes to horror Metallica’s Kirk Hammett is the man
How Whitesnake shed their skin and made a solid gold hard rock classic with the 1987 album
David Coverdale looks back on the making of Whitesnake’s hair metal-era classic 1987
Hold those end of year lists: Múr just put out one of the best metal debut albums of 2024
Another uniquely mesmerising metal band from Iceland has entered the chat
How Fear Factory predicted the apocalypse with industrial-metal masterpiece Demanufacture
The story of Fear Factory’s Demanufacture, the album that rewired metal forever
Crippled Black Phoenix: The Wolf Changes Its Fur But Not Its Nature / Horrific Honorifics No.2
Dark proggers revisit their past and banish memories of bad blood in a collection of re-recordings that could easily have been so much less, plus a set of impressive covers
How Satyricon faced the darkness with The Age Of Nero
Satyricon may have recorded their 2008 album The Age Of Nero in sunny LA, but it was steeped in bleakness and doom
From that Pink Floyd cover to collabs with Corpsegrinder, Max Cavalera and more, new Body Count album Merciless is an ice-cold knock-out
Body Count only seem to improve with age courtesy of their heaviest album yet
How Geddy Lee geeked up for his Big Beautiful Book of Bass
Rush icon planned to buy 12 instruments for his own enjoyment – but when his collection reached 250 he decided to justify the expense by writing a 600-page book (of which 408 were published)
High Parasite are destined to be your new favourite goth metal band
With some true underground metal royalty in their ranks and a tour with Cradle Of Filth under their belts, High Parasite are the goth metal fix you've been looking for
Peter Hammill's Incoherence offers a unique glimpse into the febrile mind of a restless genius
An ambitious peak from a prog maverick revisited
The story of Love And Rockets, the former Bauhaus members who helped sell goth to America
Love And Rockets emerged from the ashes of Bauhaus – but unlike their old band, they hit big in the States
"They’ve never sounded as elegant or assured as they do here”: Klone’s The Unseen
Continuing the melodic explorations they began in 2019, French prog metallers’ 10th full-length album is a beautiful and sophisticated piece of work
