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“A sharp combination of various extreme metal subgenres tempered with just enough technicality and melody to keep you on your toes…” – Decibel Magazine
Philadelphia-based extreme metal outfit DISTANT DOMINION – formed by members of Krieg, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Polterchrist, Mortal Decay, and others – prepares to release their debut album, Ripping Through Time, through Fetzner Death Records. Today, Decibel Magazine presents the album’s third single, “Solar Flare Tsunami.”
DISTANT DOMINION’s Ripping Through Time debut deploys an incinerating salvo of invigorating metal devastation infused with flourishes of technical flair, powerful classic metal influence, and fragmented melodies that form an alloy that branches beyond their classically inspired death metal core. Recorded by the band, the album was mixed by Mike Bardzik at NoiseyLittleCritter Recordings (The Casualties, Kill Your Idols, The Boils), mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound (Opeth, Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath), and completed with artwork by Mike Hrubovcak / Visual Darkness (Mortician, Grave, Sinister).
With the public unveiling of “We’ve Come For Your Souls,” Ryan Moll reveals, “I believe this was maybe the second or third song we ever wrote. It’s got a strong Mercyful Fate vibe to it both lyrically and musically. Lyrically, this one tells the story of some very rich and successful individuals that achieved through the exchange of selling their souls to be collected on their deathbeds. It’s a fun and challenging one to play while also carrying a strong rock vibe to it.”
The lyric video for “Solar Flare Tsunami” was created by Drain Hope. DISTANT DOMINION guitarist/vocalist Ryan Moll reveals with the song’s premiere, “This one has a very somber, and lonely vibe to it. Almost feels like you’re floating in solitude throughout space. Lyrically, it’s themed on the possibility of a massive solar flare that completely decimates our planet, so the riffage behind the vibe kind of plays into the aftermath of that. The afterlife of endlessly and aimlessly floating your way through this beautiful but empty aether void of nothingness.”
Decibel writes, “A sharp combination of various extreme metal subgenres tempered with just enough technicality and melody to keep you on your toes, DISTANT DOMINION’s debut album shows the band’s veteran experience in the songwriting and performance… DISTANT DOMINION chug, blast, scream and riff for nearly six minutes, building from a blackened base with flashy technical parts and almost Gojira-esque grooves.”
View DISTANT DOMINION’s incinerating “Solar Flare Tsunami” lyric video first through Decibel Magazine RIGHT HERE.
Ripping Through Time will be released on CD and digital formats worldwide September 27th through German label Fetzner Death Records. Preorders are posted at the label webshop HERE and Bandcamp where “We’ve Come For Your Souls” and the title track are streaming HERE.
DISTANT DOMINION will support the record with regional performances over the months ahead, having announced a show in Wilmington, Delaware on October 20th. Watch for additional dates to post shortly.
DISTANT DOMINION Live:
10/20/2024 Bar XIII – Wilmington, DE w/ Ikillya, Eyes Of The Living, Single Bullet Theory
The vision of DISTANT DOMINION has been gestating in the dead but dreaming womb of the Philadelphia area metal scene for decades like an unwritten prophecy carried in from the acrid winds risen off the cross-tides of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers. Beyond their other acts, here the members harness virtuosic composure into a relentless golem of brutality. A perfect storm of technical precision, powerful and complementary songwriting, and more than a collective century of experience. Not only the quintessential metal band of celebrated genre veterans from the area, but they are also the amalgamation of still-standing shrines to the great old ones who have summoned a sonic assault far greater than the sum of its parts.
Formed during quarantine voids of the COVID-19 pandemic by guitarist/vocalist Ryan Moll (In The Fire, Azure Emote, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Total Fucking Destruction), drummer Brian Deal (Polterchrist), and bassist Frank Esposito, the lineup was soon thereafter completed with the addition of guitarist Joe Gordon (Mortal Decay) and vocalist Shawn Riley (Woe, Rumpelstiltskin Grinder, Krieg). Soon after recording for their debut full-length, Esposito stepped down and left his prodigious compositions in the skilled hands of new bassist Steven Dever (Heikousen, In The Fire).
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