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A very nice album from the English band Dominion, yet another
new band with female vocals. Among the bands on the thank you listing at the
back of the album are Anathema, My Dying Bride and Cradle of Filth, some of
the best metal bands ever, and Dominion doesn't disappoint the listener. They
don't really sound like any of these bands but there are influences from all
of them in their music. They don't play as painfully slow doom like Anathema
or My Dying Bride and they don't play mach-speed black metal like the Cradle.
They lie somewhere in between when it comes to speed, yet their music is
pretty heavy and dark, mostly based on guitars. Vocal-wise Dominion makes use
of both male and female vocals. The rare male vocals being a mix of death and
classic metal and the most prominent great female vocals by Michelle. She
doesn't have an opera voice like the female singers of bands like Nightwish
and Power Symphony. Instead she has a strange deep-throat cut-off voice that
fits the sad, emotionally themed Dominion music and lyrics very nicely. I
noticed a weird thing while listening to this recording; there are in fact two
riffs from the second Clawfinger album on one of the songs! The album was
recorded at Academy Studios in Dewsbury, produced by the band and Mags from
Peaceville Records. The cover photography and artwork was done by Joe McGorty.
If you like nice metal with female vocals this is an album for
you!
| Tracklist |
1. Blackout 2. Release |
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3. Covet 4. Distortion 5. Ill Effect 6. Today's |
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Tomorrow 7. Down 8. Prism 9. Threshold 10. |
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Unseen 11. Fuelling Nothing |
: 44.27
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