Immortal Dominion is a metal band from Fort Collins, Colorado who have been around since 1992.
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They have played in Colorado, California, Wyoming, Utah, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas opening for national acts such as: Macabre, Fear Factory, Vader, Cephalic Carnage, Adema, Darkest Hour, Trust Company, Neurosis, Malevolent Creation, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles, Today is the Day, Living Sacrifice, and Napalm Death.[1] The current band members are: Brian Villers (Guitars, Backing Vocals), Ray Smith (Lead Vocals), Brian "Edward" Schmidt (Bass), Louie Micciullo (Guitar) and Casey Glass (Drums).
Immortal Dominion is a powerhouse of heavy, driving metal that features their own unique and catchy rhythms and has an appeal that crosses genres and audiences.[2]
Immortal Dominion scored the soundtrack of the breakout indie film Teeth. Another band had actually landed a song on the movie, but they broke up and were arguing about right to the songs. So, Morris Beagle from Fist Music (distributor) sent the movie's Director, Mitchell Lichtenstein, music from several of his bands and they picked 5 songs from Immortal Dominion's album "Awakening".[3] The film won a juror's award for best actress at the Sundance Film Festival, and was then purchased by Lionsgate/The Weinstein Company. It was released nationwide in February, 2007 via Roadside Attractions, and has drawn considerable attention to IMMORTAL DOMINION on the strength of the instantly memorable song "Sold My Soul".[4]
Songs: Canyon Curse, Animated Adrenaline, Brighter Days, I Won't Kill You and Demon Voices.
From Ray Smith's opening scream on track one, Endure is almost 44 minutes of raw angst and fury. A mixed hybrid of different metal genres, the album put Immortal Dominion on the map.[5]
The 2nd full length release from Immortal Dominion after an opening EP. A brutal display of thrash style riffing with a few death like vocals thrown in for good measure. At times sounding like early Pantera/Slayer but doesn't come across sounding strictly '80s thrash. Song titles like "Eat Your Flesh", "Blasphemy" and "Shallows in the Vatican Darkness" bring you thoughts of some Cradle of Filth influences in some of their songwriting. "Fear Free" and "Not Good" are incredible metal headbanging pieces.[6]
The new record sounds a bit different from the last record, Awakening. Primortal has a more accessible sound which is a result of work with lauded producer Sterling Winfield (Pantera, Mercyful Fate). According to guitarist Brian Villers - "Sterling, our producer, kind of came in, and he took a listen to what we had, and he just felt like getting in and tearing things apart and rearranging stuff and slowing some stuff down." [7] This album falls less into the death metal range and closer to hard rock which has garnered the band a larger audience.
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