Latest articles by Malcolm Dome
Jamming with Little Richard, turning down the chance to meet Elvis, yelling at Steven Tyler - welcome to the life of BTO’s Randy Bachman
Curved Air’s 1970 debut album Air Conditioning was also the first rock band picture disc album. Singer Sonja Kristina recalls how it came about.
1980’s British Steel officially sealed Judas Priest’s status as metal gods
A look back at 12 memorable months for loud music
How Meshuggah inspired a generation of tech metal bands
Doom metal never sounded so huge as it did on Candlemass’ game-changing 1986 debut album Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
Black Sabbath’s Born Again: flawed classic or total disaster? Ian Gillan has opinions
Their fourth album, a prophetic masterpiece and best-selling work, made them stars – but its creation wasn’t easy
Biff Byford looks back on Saxon’s divisive 1984 album Crusader
Motörhead’s second album, Overkill, was the one that truly put them on the map
Endless Forms Most Beautiful started with a handwritten letter and resulted in an extraordinary, inspiring concept album – plus the professor’s first-ever prog performance at Wembley Arena
Long before Blaze Bayley joined Iron Maiden, he was a member of British metal lunatics Wolfsbane
They didn’t mingle with fellow prog pioneers and didn’t clamour for stardom – but co-founder Les Holroyd argues they were highly successful where it mattered
The best songs by Bad Company, the supergroup who took blues rock to the stadiums of America
The album that kicked Motley Crue to the next level – and nearly killed them
A rare interview with the late John Sykes, who died this week at the age of 65 – and some personal memories from Myles Kennedy
Return To Ommadawn was a fresh exploration of the ideas on his third album – complete with a vinyl gatefold sleeve offering “hours of enjoyment”
Released in 1971, the African-tinged record pioneered what would become world music, and took prog into fresh new waters too.
Heaven And Hell was the start of Black Sabbath’s short but glorious second chapter
He’s worked with Steve Howe, Wire and Gandalf’s Fist, and even on a metal magazine – but it’s the quirkiness and curiosity of his own band that makes the singer and percussionist most proud
Prompted by a disagreement that spilled into the public domain, co-founders Keith Emerson and Lee Jackson once visited the Prog office to set things straight
No band did more than Saxon to put the NWOBHM on the map
One of the 80s hitmaker’s early bands covered two of their songs – but it took him years to realise their genius, and he still doesn’t truly understand it
