Dominion was a British band from Thornhill

Thornhill, West Yorkshire

Thornhill, is a village in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England. Thornhill was absorbed into Dewsbury County Borough in 1910. It is located on a hill on the south side of the River Calder, and has extensive views of Dewsbury, Ossett and Wakefield...

, Dewsbury

Dewsbury

Dewsbury is a minster town in the Metropolitan Borough of Kirklees, in West Yorkshire, England. It is to the west of Wakefield, east of Huddersfield and south of Leeds...

, that played a mix of death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 and doom metal

Doom metal

Doom metal is an extreme form of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other metal genres...

 genres. It featured a female singer, Michelle Richfield, and two male singers, Mass Firth and Arno Cagna. The band released two albums in the late 1990s on Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records is a British independent metal-oriented record label. The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw in 1987, in Dewsbury, England...

 and then split up. Drummer Bill Law temporarily played in My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride

My Dying Bride are an English doom metal band formed in 1990. To date, My Dying Bride have released eleven full-length studio albums, three EPs, one demo, one box set, four compilation albums, one live album, and one live CD/DVD release. The band released their tenth studio album, For Lies I Sire,...

. Richfield and North later formed the band Sear. Firth now plays in the death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Nailed. In 2006 their former record label Peaceville decided to release an 18 track compilation album entitled Threshold A Retrospective. This featured songs from the albums Interface

Interface (album)

Interface is the debut album by Dominion. It was released in 1996 on Peaceville Records.-Track listing:# "Tears from the Stars" – 4:15# "Millennium" – 3:50# "Silhouettes" – 4:50# "Alive?" – 5:47# "Weaving Fear" – 5:55...

 and Blackout

Blackout (Dominion album)

Blackout is the second album by the British band Dominion.-Track listing:# Blackout – 4:12 # Release – 4:15 # Covet – 4:10 # Distortion – 4:12 # Ill Effect – 4:26 # Today's Tomorrow – 4:31# Down – 3:58...

, in addition to songs that were earlier released on the Under the Sign of the Sacred Star Peaceville compilation album. A version of the Tears For Fears

Tears for Fears

Tears for Fears are an English new wave band formed in the early 1980s by Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith.Founded after the dissolution of their first band, the mod-influenced Graduate, they were initially associated with the New Wave synthesiser bands of the early 1980s but later branched out into...

 song "Shout

Shout (Tears for Fears song)

"Shout" is a song by the British band Tears for Fears.Written by Roland Orzabal and Ian Stanley and sung by Orzabal , it was the band's eighth single release and sixth UK Top 40 hit, peaking at #4 in January 1985...

", originally released on the Peaceville X album, has now gone on to be a classic in metal clubs across the UK. This 2006 release got great reviews in the press, and saw Dominion getting a KKKK (out of a possible 5K's) review in Kerrang!

Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a UK-based magazine devoted to rock music published by Bauer Media Group. It was first published on June 6, 1981 as a one-off supplement in the Sounds newspaper...

 magazine, hailing the band as "Brit Metal Pioneers and a criminally overlooked band". Furthermore, the track Release which originally featured on the album Blackout was to appear on a cover mount CD for the magazine Metal Hammer. The band has received significant positive attention in the decade after their demise.

Members

• Michelle Richfield - vocals
• Mass Firth - vocals, guitar
• Arno Cagna - vocals, guitar
• Danny North - bass
• Bill Law - drums

Discography

• Interface
  Interface (album)
  Interface is the debut album by Dominion. It was released in 1996 on Peaceville Records.-Track listing:# "Tears from the Stars" – 4:15# "Millennium" – 3:50# "Silhouettes" – 4:50# "Alive?" – 5:47# "Weaving Fear" – 5:55...
  
  (CD, 1996)
• Blackout
  Blackout (Dominion album)
  Blackout is the second album by the British band Dominion.-Track listing:# Blackout – 4:12 # Release – 4:15 # Covet – 4:10 # Distortion – 4:12 # Ill Effect – 4:26 # Today's Tomorrow – 4:31# Down – 3:58...
  
  (CD, 1997)
• Threshold - a Retrospective (Compilation CD, 2006)