Immortal dominion
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Immortal Dominion is a metal band from Fort Collins, Colorado
who have been around since 1992.
, 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
. 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).
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". 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".
/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.
(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." This album falls less into the death metal range and closer to hard rock which has garnered the band a larger audience.
Fort Collins, Colorado
Fort Collins is a Home Rule Municipality situated on the Cache La Poudre River along the Colorado Front Range, and is the county seat and most populous city of Larimer County, Colorado, United States. Fort Collins is located north of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. With a 2010 census...
who have been around since 1992.
History
They have played in ColoradoColorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, Wyoming
Wyoming
Wyoming is a state in the mountain region of the Western United States. The western two thirds of the state is covered mostly with the mountain ranges and rangelands in the foothills of the Eastern Rocky Mountains, while the eastern third of the state is high elevation prairie known as the High...
, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
, Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
, Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
and Kansas
Kansas
Kansas is a US state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south...
opening for national acts such as: Macabre
Macabre (band)
Macabre is an extreme metal band from Illinois. They were formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois, and have never had a line-up change. They blend thrash metal, death metal, and grindcore to form their own unique style dubbed murder metal...
, Fear Factory
Fear Factory
Fear Factory is an American industrial metal band. Formed in 1989, they have released seven full-length albums and a number of singles and remixes. Over the course of their career they have evolved from a succession of styles, as well as steadily pioneered a combination of the styles death metal,...
, Vader
Vader (band)
Vader is a Polish death metal band from Olsztyn, formed in 1983. According to Piotr Wiwczarek, the band's founding singer and guitar player, the band's name was inspired by Darth Vader from the Star Wars film series. Lyrical themes include stories by H. P. Lovecraft, WW2, horror and anti-christian...
, Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage
Cephalic Carnage is an American grindcore band formed in 1992 in Denver, Colorado. The band comprises vocalist Lenzig Leal, guitarists Steve Goldberg and Brian Hopp, drummer John Merryman and bassist Nick Schendzielos...
, Adema
Adema
-2003–2004: Unstable, Mark Chavez's and Mike Ransom's departure:Adema's second album, Unstable, was released by Arista in August 2003. It was produced by Howard Benson, whose credits also include producing albums with P.O.D., Hoobastank and Cold....
, Darkest Hour, Trust Company
Trust Company
Trust Company can refer to:*Trust company, a company acting as a trustee*Trust Company *Trust Company, predecessor to SunTrust Banks...
, Neurosis
Neurosis (band)
Neurosis is a post-metal band, based in Oakland, California. They formed in 1985 as a hardcore punk band, and their sound progressed towards a doom metal style that also included influences from dark ambient and industrial music as well as incorporating elements of folk music...
, Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation is a death metal band originally hailing from Buffalo, New York. Moving to Florida in 1987, they became a part of the emergent local death metal scene, landing a deal with Roadrunner Records...
, Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles is a thrash metal/crossover thrash band from the United States that formed in Houston, in 1982. The band currently comprises founding members, vocalist Kurt Brecht and guitarist Spike Cassidy, as well as drummer Rob Rampy and bassist Harald Oimoen.D.R.I...
, Today is the Day
Today is the Day
Today Is the Day is an experimental noise rock/metal/grindcore band from Nashville, Tennessee. They have a diverse sound that includes influences from alternative rock, grindcore, & progressive rock among other genres...
, Living Sacrifice
Living Sacrifice
Living Sacrifice is a Christian heavy metal band that formed in September 1989 in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. The band has released seven studio albums, out of which the first three were recorded under R.E.X. Records with their original vocalist Darren Johnson as a more thrash metal and death metal...
, and Napalm Death
Napalm Death
Napalm Death are a death metal band formed in Birmingham, England in 1981. While none of its original members remain in the group, the lineup of vocalist Mark "Barney" Greenway, bassist Shane Embury, guitarist Mitch Harris and drummer Danny Herrera has remained consistent for most of the band's ...
. 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).
Sound
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.Teeth (film)
Immortal Dominion scored the soundtrackSoundtrack
A soundtrack can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; or the physical area of a film that contains the...
of the breakout indie film Teeth
Teeth (film)
Teeth is a 2007 comedy horror film written and directed by Mitchell Lichtenstein, about a teenage girl who has teeth in her vagina. It premiered January 19, 2007 at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival in the independent drama category...
. 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
Mitchell Lichtenstein
Mitchell Wilson Lichtenstein is an openly gay American actor, writer, producer and director.Lichtenstein studied acting at Bennington College in Vermont....
, music from several of his bands and they picked 5 songs from Immortal Dominion's album "Awakening". The film won a juror's award for best actress at the Sundance Film Festival
Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival that takes place annually in Utah, in the United States. It is the largest independent cinema festival in the United States. Held in January in Park City, Salt Lake City, and Ogden, as well as at the Sundance Resort, the festival is a showcase for new...
, and was then purchased by Lionsgate/The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company
The Weinstein Company is an American film studio founded by Bob and Harvey Weinstein in 2005 after the brothers left the then-Disney-owned Miramax Films, which they had co-founded in 1979...
. 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".
Birth, EP - 1996
Songs: Canyon Curse, Animated Adrenaline, Brighter Days, I Won't Kill You and Demon Voices.Endure - 1998
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.Awakening: The Revelation - 2006
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 PanteraPantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
/Slayer
Slayer
Slayer is an American thrash metal band formed in Huntington Park, California, in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. Slayer rose to fame with their 1986 release, Reign in Blood, and is credited as one of the "Big Four" thrash metal acts, along with Metallica, Megadeth and...
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
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
influences in some of their songwriting. "Fear Free" and "Not Good" are incredible metal headbanging pieces.
Primortal - 2011
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 WinfieldSterling Winfield
Sterling Winfield is a music producer. He has worked with Pantera on several albums, including Reinventing the Steel . He also co-produced the post-Pantera band Damageplan's 2004 debut album, New Found Power. In 2007, he worked with Vinnie Paul's new supergroup Hellyeah on their self-titled debut...
(Pantera
Pantera
Pantera was an American heavy metal band from Arlington, Texas. Formed by the Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell in 1981, bassist Rex Brown would join in late 1981 with vocalist Terry Glaze. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera had Terry replaced in 1987 with Phil Anselmo as...
, Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate was a Danish heavy metal band from Copenhagen. Initially active from 1981 to 1985, they reunited in 1992. The band went on hiatus again in 2000, when frontman King Diamond decided to continue his solo career...
). 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." This album falls less into the death metal range and closer to hard rock which has garnered the band a larger audience.