Latest articles by Dom Lawson
When circumstance presented the opportunity to face a challenge that had always intrigued him, the prog mastermind embraced it fully. But what will happen when his bandmates return?
Orange Goblin have thrown absolutely everything at their 10th studio album
In 2011, Dave Mustaine invited Metal Hammer into his inner sanctum
Metallica and Slayer grabbed the headlines, but they couldn’t match Germany’s Kreator, Sodom or Destruction for filthy viciousness
Suicide Silence’s crushing second album, No Time To Bleed, was released on June 30, 2009
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.
Long before Ghost released Rite Here Rite Now, Nightwish hit the big screen with their Imaginaerum movie
Norse notables expand their sonic environment with an effective sideways step
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?
Underrated gem or confused mess? Gary Green, John Weathers and Kerry Minnear discuss their 1977 album in the light of Steven WIlson’s remix
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
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
In 2012, Steve Harris launched British Lion - the solo project that took 20 years to get off the ground
Rotting Christ have written the most immediate hooks of their career without compromising one jot
Gatecreeper have evolved nicely without compromising their extreme metal roots on the excellent Dark Superstition
Slayer might have called it quits in 2019, but From Hell I Rise proves Kerry King still has a lot to say
How cult stoner rock visionaries Kyuss made 1992’s classic Blues For The Red Sun
The story of the Italian prog legends Banco del Mutuo Soccorso return after 25 years with new album Transiberiana
An impressively explosive return from one of metal's biggest fans, Sebastian Bach
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
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”
How Motörhead’s late 90s and early 2000s three-piece line-up more than lived up to past glories
London’s AOR lifers FM keep up the good work on album number 14, Old Habits Die Hard
