And they just released their new video for "My Heart, Your Hands"

My Heart, Your Hands (Music Video)

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There are no words to describe the horror that is the current band I am in. Involving a revolving door of noob musicians continually dragged in and left out by current band members. Its more a "people-who-want-to-play-in-a-band-but-can't-play-with-other-people" collection. And somehow the numbers keep increasing. You play piano? Come on in. Doesn't matter if you don't even know what chords are, and we've never heard you play. Oh, you play guitar too? Why don't you jam with us next practice? What's aggravating is every time a new member is dragged in, which is basically every other practice, I have to teach them all the chords. AGAIN. Doesn't help no one else in the band remembers any of the chords we play. And for some reason, no one else remembers the names of the chords, only what they kind of look like when you play them. And no one else knows how to figure out chords by listening to the music, and since most of our songs are foreign, there are no tabs. Guess who has to do all the work to figure out all the chords? Then teach them to everyone? I will be the first to admit my guitar playing should be loads better than it is now. In fact, outside simple folk rock, my guitar is terrible. My electric guitar skills and soloing skills are terrible. What does that say when I feel like I'm the one holding everyone's head above water when we play? We don't even have a real drum set. We have a friggin set of BONGOS. What self-respecting band has BONGOS? The dude who plays the bongos can't even friggin play bongos.
I guess what aggravates me is that 1. I want to sing but I'm not the one singing. I would rather sing than play guitar, since I'm a much better singer than guitarist. 2. I always have to hold people's head above water in this musical endeavor. 3. The constant influx of new members. One of the band members suggested we bring a celloist into the band, regardless of the fact that she didn't even have her cello in the states. [facepalm]
The group is a great group to hang out with though, and practices are fun if I see it more as a socializing opportunity than actual practice. Maybe that's why I always dread practice but enjoy hanging out.
This is further proof that I need to be involved in a real band, and this can not be my main musical project.

There are very few bands that I gush about. From what I recall, I only gush about 2 bands regularly: One is the Birthday Massacre, and the other is Dommin. In fact, I found about about Dommin after clicking around TBM's myspace and saw that they were opening up for TBM. A visit to their myspace kept me on their page for weeks, probably inflating their listening stats massively as I went through all their available songs again and again for hours on end. I saw them live with TBM, and was hooked.

The band sounds like a gothy Elvis; a male, less ADHD Horror Pops; or an emo Danzig. I'm not a fan of emo, but the emo-ness is much more bearable for me if the lead singer isn't some suburban prepubescent male cutting himself and crying to sleep every night cuz he thinks he's misunderstood. That's just annoying. Heart-wrenching and bittersweet lyrics, guttural vocals dripping with anguish, combined with a haunting and simple melody, and you've got a band that screams Jane Eyre meshed with the English Patient and Frankenstein (the whole "monster-only-wants-to-be-loved part", not the re-animating dead bodies part). Being a closet goth who isn't obsessed with death [contradiction? Identity crisis?], this band hit me just about as hard TBM did. This band melts the music I want to write and sing and breathes their own life into it. All the minor chords, all the chord progressions, all the catchy melodies. Their music is like mine, but from a different dimension, which is probably why I like them so much. Their simple lyrics are somehow able to grasp distrust, lust, love, and fear by the throat and consume them in a passionate, melodic embrace.

Here's the video for their newest single, My Heart Your Hands.


Dommin - My Heart Your Hands


Video's kinda eh. But hey, you can only do so much with a limited budget, and its an improvement to their first one. Their new tshirt is also kinda eh. I'm waiting for a nice one to come out before I commit $$ to a shirt I have to wear. Their CD is supposed to come out in August 2009, so I guess I'll have to find a hot topic to get that.

Can't wait to see them again if they come to Philly or DC. If I have to, I may go to NYC to watch them again.