
Malcolm Dome
Malcolm Dome had an illustrious and celebrated career which stretched back to working for Record Mirror magazine in the late 70s and Metal Fury in the early 80s before joining Kerrang! at its launch in 1981. His first book, Encyclopedia Metallica, published in 1981, may have been the inspiration for the name of a certain band formed that same year. Dome is also credited with inventing the term "thrash metal" while writing about the Anthrax song Metal Thrashing Mad in 1984. He would later become a founding member of RAW rock magazine in 1988.
In the early 90s, Malcolm Dome was the Editor of Metal Forces magazine, and also involved in the horror film magazine Terror, before returning to Kerrang! for a spell. With the launch of Classic Rock magazine in 1998 he became involved with that title, sister magazine Metal Hammer, and was a contributor to Prog magazine since its inception in 2009. He was actively involved in Total Rock Radio, which launched as Rock Radio Network in 1997, changing its name to Total Rock in 2000. In 2014 he joined the TeamRock online team as Archive Editor, uploading stories from all of our print titles and helping lay the foundation for what became Louder.
Dome was the author of many books on a host of bands from AC/DC to Led Zeppelin and Metallica, some of which he co-wrote with Prog Editor Jerry Ewing. He died in 2021.
Latest articles by Malcolm Dome

Motörhead's 'Fast' Eddie Clarke: 5 favourite guitar albums
By Malcolm Dome published
In 2016, late Motörhead legend "Fast" Eddie Clarke talked to us about five guitar albums that inspired his own playing

16 things you might not know about about GG Allin
By Malcolm Dome last updated
There are many gruesome stories about the ultra-controversial GG Allin, here are some crazy facts about the scum lover himself

Styx: "We’ve never moved totally away from our love of prog".
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Dennis De Young and Tommy Shaw argue that despite the big hits, Styx always had a proggy heart

How Kansas cracked the charts with Carry On Wayward Son
By Malcolm Dome last updated
In 1976 US prog rockers Kansas found themselves in the upper reaches of the US charts with a song that's become a drive time classic

The story behind Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade Of Pale
By Malcolm Dome last updated
The long and protracted tale behind UK prog legends Procol Harum's 1967 number one smash hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale

The story of Hawkwind's Silver Machine
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Dave Brock recalls the time when a hit single meant he finally got recognised in his local bank…

Slipknot: "I would drink from the moment I woke up, until I passed out"
By Malcolm Dome last updated
After the phenomenal success of Iowa, Slipknot took a break. But where there had once been unity, there was now conflict. Yet they produced something that defied any expectations...

Why Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy Of Gold is more than just metal’s greatest intro music
By Malcolm Dome last updated
How Ennio Morricone’s The Ecstasy Of Gold become part of metal’s mythology courtesy of Metallica

"Rush and Genesis - they weren’t prepared to be pigeon-holed. The music world was their oyster and they’d be ready to take on any challenge." Taylor Hawkins on his love of Rush, Genesis and Phil Collins
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins discusses how he got into prog rock

Iron Maiden, and the day I heard The X Factor
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Iron Maiden used to throw extravagant album launches. For The X Factor, it was different

The Top 10 Essential 90s Metal Albums
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Whoever said metal suffered at the hands of grunge in the 1990s was deluded. As these 10 albums prove, it was stronger than ever during that turbulent decade

Kiko Loureiro's 5 Essential Guitar Albums
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Megadeth guitarist Kiko Loureiro picks his top 5 best guitar albums

The 10 worst albums by 10 brilliant classic rock bands
By Geoff Barton, Sleazegrinder, Ian Fortnam, Fraser Lewry, Malcolm Dome, Jon Hotten, Hugh Fielder, Paul Elliott last updated
Even the best can get it wrong sometimes: here's the worst albums by 10 of rock's greatest bands

16 of the best psychedelic rock albums ever
By Rob Hughes, Malcolm Dome last updated
Take a trip through time and space with the ultimate mind-bending psychedelic rock albums

Remember when Metallica secretly supported Metal Church in 1990?
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Metal Church look back at the historic Marquee show with Metallica

Megadeth’s So Far, So Good… So What!: the chaotic story of thrash’s most f**ked-up album
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Megadeth were strung out and at war with each other when they made their third album So Far, So Good… So What!. And things were about to get worse…

Pink Floyd: The Making Of Atom Heart Mother
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Friesian cows, brass section bastards and their first number one album. Just what did go into the making of Pink Floyd's Atom Heart Mother?

Iron Maiden: 16 facts about Powerslave
By Malcolm Dome last updated
On September 3, 1984, Iron Maiden released Powerslave, one of their most iconic albums. Here are some reasons why we love it

How Iron Maiden hired Bruce Dickinson and revitalised their career
By Malcolm Dome last updated
After an acclaimed debut album and a less accomplished second record, Maiden looked ready to stop before they'd truly got started, then someone had the idea of hiring the singer from Samson

“Scream for me, Long Beach!”: down the front on Iron Maiden’s World Slavery Tour
By Malcolm Dome last updated
Mummified Eddies, stages the size of football pitches, hysterical crowds – this what it was like seeing the most epic metal tour of the 80s first-hand

Metallica: the story of Kill ’Em All and the birth of the legend
By Malcolm Dome last updated
In 1983, four alcohol fuelled kids calling themselves Metallica recorded their debut album Kill ’Em All. No one knew it would change the world

Why you should definitely own Rock City by Riot
By Malcolm Dome published
How could you not love Riot, a band with a mythical half-human half-baby seal mascot called The Narita?
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