Dominion (Benedictum album)

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Dominion
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Studio album by
ReleasedMarch 8, 2011 (2011-03-08)
Genre Heavy metal
Length71:15
Label Frontiers Records
Producer Ryan Greene
Benedictum chronology
Seasons of Tragedy
(2008)
Dominion
(2011)
Obey
(2013)

Dominion is the third studio album by the American heavy metal band Benedictum, released through Frontiers Records in 2011.

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the United Kingdom. With roots in blues rock, psychedelic rock, and acid rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified distortion, extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall loudness. The genre's lyrics and performance styles are sometimes associated with aggression and machismo.

Benedictum is an American heavy metal band formed in 2005 in San Diego, California that now resides in Phoenix, Arizona. Their current line-up consists of vocalist Veronica Freeman, guitarist Pete Wells, bassist Aric Avina, and drummer Rikard Stjernquist. Since their formation the band released three studio albums, debuting with Uncreation in 2006, followed by Seasons of Tragedy in 2008, both through Madrid, Spain-based label Locomotive Music, before signing with Italian label Frontiers Records for their third album, Dominion, issued in 2011.

Track listing

  1. "Dominion" 4:18
  2. "At the Gates" 3:59
  3. "Seer" 4:34
  4. "Grind It" 2:44
  5. "Prodigal Son" 4:55
  6. "The Shadowlands" 4:56
  7. "Beautiful Pain" 1:29
  8. "Dark Heart" 4:00
  9. "Bang" 4:30
  10. "Loud Silence" 5:07
  11. "Epsilon" 8:54
  12. "Sanctuary (Bonus Track)" 5:07
  13. "Overture/Temples of Syrinx (Bonus Track)" 8:21

Personnel

Electric guitar electrified guitar; fretted stringed instrument with a neck and body that uses a pickup to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals

An electric guitar is a guitar that uses one or more pickups to convert the vibration of its strings into electrical signals. The vibration occurs when a guitar player strums, plucks, fingerpicks, slaps or taps the strings. The pickup generally uses electromagnetic induction to create this signal, which being relatively weak is fed into a guitar amplifier before being sent to the speaker(s), which converts it into audible sound.

Bass guitar Electric bass instrument

The bass guitar is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, except with a longer neck and scale length, and four to six strings or courses.

Keyboardist musician who plays keyboard instruments

A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more general term for a person who plays them. These keyboards include:

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