Latest articles by Dom Lawson
Uriah Heep's Mick Box: "I feel like I’ve done ten rounds with Mike Tyson and not got a punch in"
Uriah Heep have lost a few friends but are enjoying a golden era, and new album Chaos & Colour is defiantly upbeat and inspirational
New singer, new attitude, new era: how Iron Maiden’s The Number Of The Beast changed metal forever
Bruce Dickinson joined Iron Maiden in time for the band's iconic third album, The Number Of The Beast. Things would never be the same again
"I’ve never made a deadline in my life. They’re finished when they’re finished.” Spiritualized and the story of their first four albums
Jason Pierce guides us through those first four groundbreaking Spiritualized albums
20 killer metal albums turning 10 in 2023
From Bring Me The Horizon’s Sempiternal to Ghost’s Infestissumam, happy birthday to these absolute montsers
Uriah Heep: still fully in touch with what made them great 50 years ago
Another Box-fresh hard-rock bull’s eye as Uriah Heep release album number 25 Chaos And Colour
The making of Riverside's Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Following a Number One album in their home country, Poland's Riverside hit new heights with 2013's Shrine Of New Generation Slaves
Dark-prog magi Katatonia deliver more epic gloom on Sky Void Of Stars
Album review: Katatonia’s 12th album Sky Void O Stars proves that they’re the masters of sumptuous sullenness
“I realised quite early that this album would deal a lot with growing up." Beardfish's 2015 album +4626-COMFORTZONE would also be their last until they reformed last year
Released in 2015, +4626-COMFORTZONE was Swedish prog rockers Beardfish's eighth studio album. It also would also be the band's last for nine years...
The 50 best metal albums of 2022
From Ghost and Slipknot to Zeal & Ardor and Ithaca, these are the best albums of the last 12 months
5 new bands you need to hear this month
From Gojira-style Swiss prog metal to anti-war Ukrainian death metal, these are 5 new bands you need to hear right now
The 10 best black metal albums of 2022
From Abbath and Blackbraid to Gaerea and Zeal & Ardor - these are the 10 best black metal albums of 2022
The 10 best doom metal albums of 2022
From Conan and BlackLab to Crippled Black Phoenix and MWWB, these are the 10 best doom metal records of 2022
The 10 best death metal albums of 2022
From Aborted and Immolation to Venom Prison and Lorna Shore, these are the 10 best death metal records of 2022
The 10 best power metal albums of 2022
From Sabaton and Blind Guardian to Wind Rose and Bridear, these are the 10 best power metal albums of 2022
The 10 best thrash metal albums of 2022
From Megadeth and Kreator to Dead Cross and Vulcano, these are the best thrash metal albums of 2022
Every Porcupine Tree album ranked from worst to best
UPDATED Art-metal skronk-outs? Pink Floyd-inspired anthems? Epic trance workouts? A journey through the masterworks of defiant prog pioneers Porcupine Tree
How Cynic's Ascension Codes was a triumph born of tragedy
After a tumultuous period when two core members tragically died, remaining co-founder Paul Masvidal re-grouped, and re-emerged with the fourth Cynic album.
10 essential rap metal albums
Get the party – or the riot – started with these rap metal classics
Every Iron Maiden album ranked from worst to best
Ranking Iron Maiden albums in order of greatness is a tough job. But we’ve done it anyway
The 20 greatest prog metal bands of all time
The results of the poll to find the greatest prog metal band ever are in and we have a winner
Devin Townsend's immaculate sonics and huge melodies thrill on heartfelt Lightwork album
Devin Townsend's Lightwork: Melodic bliss from the previously Hevy Devy
Every Cypress Hill album ranked from worst to best
From their self-titled 1991 debut to Back in Black, here's how we ranked Cypress Hill's studio albums, all rolled up in one definitive list
Sodom's 40 Years Of War: a brutal and bruising re-thrash of four decades of diehard metal
40 Years Of War: The Greatest Hits sees German legends Sodom's gnarliest deep cuts, re-made
"We wanted to capture the magic of prog's classic era" – Wobbler: the story of From Silence To Somewhere
Norwegians Wobbler recreate the epic sounds of early 70s prog rock, but in 2017, with the help of Karisma and a new line-up, they finally started to get the recognition they deserve
