DOMAIN: Our Kingdom LP Promo. Great Epic Hard Rock from Germany. Check audio

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TRACKLIST:
1. Lost In The City 05:12
2. The Run 03:03
3. We Got Love 03:41
4. Sign From Your Heart 05:10
5. Waiting For Love 05:25
6. Riding Through The Night 05:03
7. Rollin’ 03:38
8. Love Child 04:34
9. On The Line 03:51
10. Back From Hell 04:54
Total playing time 44:34
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DOMAIN: Our Kingdom [Great Epic-y band from Germany. Promo LP Copy] Check video

DOMAIN is one of the great institutions of the German Melodic Metal scene!
In the mid-eighties, the band was very active. Even at this early stage the group laid the foundations for classics, superb Melodic Metal jewels such as “”Our Kingdom””
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Sometime back in the late 80’s I was exposed to power ballad Sign From Your Heart and started liking it because of its heavy similarity to Journey’s various hit singles. I remember an infectiously catchy chorus and a really large keyboard presence similar to what Europe was also putting out at the time, but at that time I never could seem to recall the name of the band.  Anyway, back in 1988 when this came out this was an entirely different band. It mostly resembles the keyboard heavy and radio oriented hard rock that was heard on Rainbow’s  Street Of Dreams and Deep Purple’s Perfect Strangers, although the keyboard presence almost gets overbearing and upstages the guitar work. The keyboard work itself definitely lends itself to the simplicity of Europe than what John Lord would do, but the guitar work is definitely the sort that you’d have heard out of Ritchie Blackmore at this point and time and still hear to a large extent out of Axel Rudi Pell.

The keyboard and drum heavy production is definitely what holds this together & the contents of this album are mostly solid pieces of melodic rock that can be appreciated by any fan of guitar oriented rock like Dokken and Ozzy during the Jake E. Lee years. Whether it’s some solid riffing on harder edged anthems like The Run and Riding Through The Night, or the soaring and triumphant melodies of songs like Rollin and Back From Hell, it will definitely satisfy the sensibilities of any fan of 80’s rock.
If there is one song on here that legitimizes getting this album, it’s the opening song Lost In The City, which was also the album’s title track when it was first issued back in 1988. Sure those melodic keyboard fills are loud, but the driving theme of the entire song is so damn catchy and familiar that you can hardly notice it. The guitar work is pretty basic, the solos are brief but extremely well executed, and the whole thing is paced out like a sort of epic retelling of the Street Of Dreams story. If you were to put some double bass drum work under that chorus and some palm muted tremolo riffs to match it, you’d have essentially the same formula for a large sounding chorus that today’s melodic power metal outfits like Freedom Call, Dreamtale, Dragonland and countless others refer to again and again.

Finding this in its original version might set you back a good bit. The integrity of the master tape is maintained to ensure a vintage 80’s analogue sound despite the digital medium that it has been transferred to. I’d recommend this more to fans of Dokken and similar LA sleaze acts, as well as fans of 80’s Deep Purple and Kiss during their no makeup period, rather than fans of Domain’s current work. It’s definitely a different beast, but a fun one nonetheless.


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