Latest articles by Dom Lawson
Buying guide Cardiacs are easy to hate, with music that's unfathomable at times, but for fans of the weird and wonderful there's nothing else like them
Armored Saint should have been bigger than they were – but they produced a classic in Last Train Home
This is a special debut from a special new force in extreme metal
Latest box set spans 2002 to 2015 in style containing 10 discs and a hardback book
183-song box set offers a colossal overview of the Van der Graaf Generator vocalist and eternal musical outlier
Master craftsmen’s 1971 release was a unique fusion of ingenuity, passion and febrile chemistry – plus some tension – and they never looked back
Pattern-Seeking Animals keyboardist praises Banks’ ear, taste and understatement, which he argues is essential to everything Genesis achieved
40 years in, Testament are still doing it louder and better than most bands that arrived in their wake
Buying guide Iron Maiden are the undisputed heavy metal daddies of live albums. Here's every one they've released so far, in reverse order of excellence
Almost a decade since Vimic first released music, their debut album Open Your Omen is finally here
Does the only album with four entries suggest there’s a definitive record from the neo-prog giants? Does the split between the Fish and Steve Hogarth eras reveal a preferred vocalist?
Avant-garde maniacs Igorrr are breaking brains with a little help from Mr. Bungle's Trey Spruance
Looking like they've stepped out of the world of Conan The Barbarian, Castle Rat are one of metal's most vibrant new bands
The cello champion defies comparison as her compositional skills continue to develop and impress
Giancarlo Erra had been avoiding guitar in favour of synths in solo and collab projects. Then he realised he’d assembled enough music to form a release, and had a good reason to do it quickly
The death of a mentor and the world-pausing Covid event gave the eternal pioneer a chance to discover another new approach to his art: “The visual field for a human being is 140 degrees, but the audio field is 360 degrees”
New Desaster album Kill All Idols is more proof they should be way bigger - but maybe music this deathly and monstrous needs to live in the shadows
The late, great Tim Smith’s prog-punk magnum opus returns on vinyl for the first time since 2007
Tuomas Holopainen, Troy Donockley and Johanna Kurkela offer beautiful distractions in a collaborative set of soundscapes
With the Market Square Heroes sleeve acting as a successful audition, his partnership with the neo-prog icons meant he joined them in being free to create whatever art they wanted to
As their back catalogue reissues campaign reaches the halfway point, White Willow mainman Jacob Holm-Lupo explains the evolution of the Norwegian proggers
Members of Jinjer, Blood Incantation and Rivers Of Nihil explain the current rapid evolution of a genre that broke out 40 years ago
Sweden’s melancholic masters successfully navigate recent choppy waters to deliver their lucky 13th album
