Latest articles by Dom Lawson
How Megadeth kicked off the 00s with the blazing Th1rt3en album
In 2011, Dave Mustaine invited Metal Hammer into his inner sanctum
“We just wanted to be filthy!”: the snarling, savage story of German thrash
Metallica and Slayer grabbed the headlines, but they couldn’t match Germany’s Kreator, Sodom or Destruction for filthy viciousness
Suicide Silence had a point to prove to the haters, and with No Time To Bleed they proved it
Suicide Silence’s crushing second album, No Time To Bleed, was released on June 30, 2009
“It felt like the right time to me. And I think Gavin and Richard acknowledged this too." How Porcupine Tree returned with Closure/Continuation
Never say never. After years of speculation and rumours, Steven Wilson reunited with his former Porcupine Tree bandmates Richard Barbieri and Gavin Harrison for one of the most unexpected musical reformations.
How Nightwish channelled their inner Tim Burton to make the fantastical Imaginaerum movie
Long before Ghost released Rite Here Rite Now, Nightwish hit the big screen with their Imaginaerum movie
Airbag expand their sonic environment on The Century Of The Self
Norse notables expand their sonic environment with an effective sideways step
How Iron Maiden made The Final Frontier and silenced rumours they’d reached the end of the road
In 2010, Metal Hammer joined Iron Maiden on the road in Texas to ask the question: would The Final Frontier really be their last album?
“Our musical identity was at stake”: A fresh look at Gentle Giant’s The Missing Piece
Underrated gem or confused mess? Gary Green, John Weathers and Kerry Minnear discuss their 1977 album in the light of Steven WIlson’s remix
Are The Chronicles of Father Robin the only band to spend 30 years on their debut album?
Norwegian supergroup took decades to deliver The Songs & Tales Of Airoea, but they don’t regret it – and they’re even working on a follow-up
“David Bowie was an absolute genuis”: Rick Wakeman’s epic tales of sessions with Bowie, Bolan, Lou Reed and more
Former Yes keyboard maestro Rick Wakeman has played with rock’s great and good over the years – and he’s got the memories to prove it
How Steve Harris stepped away from Iron Maiden to launch his debut solo album
In 2012, Steve Harris launched British Lion - the solo project that took 20 years to get off the ground
“It makes the whole God thing seem plausible!” Kavus Torabi’s Guide To Cardiacs
Gong and Knifeworld guitarist recalls his time in Tim Smith’s band via five of their songs chosen by Prog
Rotting Christ have just crafted their most accessible - and perhaps most magnificent - album yet
Rotting Christ have written the most immediate hooks of their career without compromising one jot
"Dark Superstition is the moment where Gatecreeper become a more well-rounded and versatile heavy metal band." Gatecreeper confirm their status as one of the most exciting bands in death metal with album three
Gatecreeper have evolved nicely without compromising their extreme metal roots on the excellent Dark Superstition
From Hell I Rise is Kerry King at his tooth-gnashing, head-banging best
Slayer might have called it quits in 2019, but From Hell I Rise proves Kerry King still has a lot to say
Kyuss’ Blues For The Red Sun: the inside story of a stoner metal landmark
How cult stoner rock visionaries Kyuss made 1992’s classic Blues For The Red Sun
"It’s a responsibility but also a privilege to share this same kind of consciousness with new generations of people." The fantastic return of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso
The story of the Italian prog legends Banco del Mutuo Soccorso return after 25 years with new album Transiberiana
Sebastian Bach appears ageless on the bombastic and sonically monstrous Child Within The Man
An impressively explosive return from one of metal's biggest fans, Sebastian Bach
Why Ihsahn and his wife want you to listen to Radiohead
When people were just beginning to see that the Emperor man was a progressive musician, he’d long been all over Thom Yorke’s artistic bravery
How Steven Wilson and Mikael Åkerfeldt made Storm Corrosion a different kind of aggressive
Porcupine Tree and Opeth leaders’ 2012 collaboration wasn't what many people thought it would be – instead it was something more experimental which they described as “organic pagan minimalism”
“They couldn’t get the chicken feathers and blood cleaned up quick enough”: the epic story of Motorhead in the 21st century
How Motörhead’s late 90s and early 2000s three-piece line-up more than lived up to past glories
"A glistening benchmark for melodic rock excellence since the mid-80s": FM continue to glisten on Old Habits Die Hard
London’s AOR lifers FM keep up the good work on album number 14, Old Habits Die Hard
“There’s plenty to sustain and even expand the myth of their mission to reconstruct rock music”: Faust’s Momentaufnahme III
Infectious enthusiasm glows out of unheard curios and a few previously-released tracks
Melvins Tarantula Heart Metal Hammer Album Review: "Their best since the 90s"
Grunge forerunners and sludge metal pioneers Melvins are pushing the envelope again with their new - and 27th! - album Tarantula Heart
"We both wanted to rock out, so we started coming up with those kinds of pieces and it made us all feel great so we just kept going." Glass Hammer and the making of Dreaming City
Glass Hammer co-founder Steve Babb tells Prog why the band decided to step into the world of swords and sorcery for Dreaming City.
