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Tomorrow, February 2, 2012 is the 2nd Anniversary of Dommin's debut album, "Love Is Gone." We'd like to commemorate the day by asking you to fill the internet with Dommin's music, pictures, videos and links.

Let's trend on Twitter, let's get Facebook buzzing! Who is Dommin? What are they about?

Whether it's a link to your favorite photo of the band or a personal photo you took of or with the band, Whether it's a video the band has, a live video you shot or maybe a link to a YouTube video that has the audio of your favorite Dommin song....

Link to it! Post it on your Facebook walls, share it with your friends, blog about it on Tumblr, Tweet it and hashtag Dommin (#Dommin).

Let's DOMMINATE the World Wide Web!

Have you created some Dommin related art? Made a bracelet? Personalized some Dommin license plates? Done some interesting body art? Drawn or painted the band or a logo? We want to see and collect it all!! No contest here. We just want to show you off! Post a link to your piece in the comments below!

We've collected many beautiful, and what I'm sure are painful, tattoos!

Even though the submission deadline is officially closed, we'll continue to add everyone's ink. You'll simply be at a disadvantage having arrived late to the party.

However, now is your chance to go support your favorite ink. Go to Dommin's Facebook Page and Click to View the Photos. You'll see a folder named "Dommin Tattoos." Browse and be sure to LIKE all your favorite ones.

The winner with the most LIKES will be announced on January 2nd.

Coming up next, we'll be having a similar contest for all other Dommin art.

We've seen many amazing Dommin related tattoos: lyrics, logos, symbols, and monograms. We'd love to collect and see them all!

POST A COMMENT BELOW WITH A LINK TO YOUR INK!

After we collect all of the Dommin Tattoos, they will be displayed in a folder on the Dommin Facebook where fans will vote for their favorite tats by "LIKING" the photo. The tat with the highest number of "LIKES" will win a Dommin T-shirt of their choice from The Dommin Shop.

The deadline for entries will be on the 27th.

Ever gotten a tattoo you regret?

copy and paste the link below into your browser to see footage from 9.26.2011 of Cameron Morris.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wFTtEdco34

Dommin is excited to announce two upcoming shows!

June 30 Dommin will be playing at the Slidebar in Fullerton, CA. Buy tickets HERE

January 21, 2012 Dommin will be opening for Nightwish at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles! Buy your tickets here NOW

The band thought it would be fun to look back on their original video for "My Heart, Your Hands" that was shot over a 6 month period and released in 2007 when the band was still independent. Kristofer, Billy and Konstantine reminisce about the video adding their commentary while watching as well as injecting some hilarious story-telling. Watch the original "My Heart, Your Hands" video with band commentary now in the Premium Section of Dommin.Com.

Not a member? Sign up today! Insert your Dommin "Love Is Gone" CD into your computer or when signing up, the computer can also find your Dommin album if purchased on iTunes or Amazon.com

Also, for a limited time, the band has the original video with original music posted publicly on their YouTube page. Visit: www.youtube.com/domminband

Dommin had such a great time in Australia that they wanted to share their adventure with you. They have posted a video with a montage of their experience at the Soundwave Festival and included some of the sightseeing they were able to do during their down time. Also posted are photos in two galleries. One gallery, "Dommin Down Under," is full of live photos from the festival in Brisbane and Melbourne. Some very candid photos have also been added to the Mobile Photos Gallery for Premium Members of the guys being tourists and letting loose. They even got a couple of shots from their trip to The Great Barrier Reef.

Kristofer Dommin will be stopping by the Heidi & Frank Show this Friday. You can listen in at www.heidiandfrank.com from 10AM to 12PM.

As I sit here in the hotel lobby in Perth, I'm recounting in my mind all that has happened over the past two weeks. We were fortunate to avoid a major issue and the keyboard arrived about 2 hours before our set time. Once that was settled, the rest of the trip was relatively stress free.

The first show in Brisbane would be the hottest and most humid of all the shows. It always takes a few shows to get your body into the swing of things when it comes to performing. And since we hadn't performed since early December, we anticipated the sore necks and aching shoulders that were in store for us after this first show. I remember after we had finished the set in Brisbane, I knelt down to put my guitar in it's case and looking down into the case, my chin just dropped to my chest. My neck was so weak that if felt like a wet noodle. We were all so dehydrated. I felt like i was dying.

Though the day prior to our first show in Brisbane, we walked around the city a bit (and blew through all our spending cash in the first day because everything is SO expensive), we didn't really have too much time to take in the city. After our performance in Brisbane at 2pm, we were leaving the festival by 4:30PM to catch a flight to Sydney. After Soundwave in Sydney, we'd almost have too much time on our hands. We had almost 3 full days to explore Sydney. We of course did all the expected things: walk along the harbor bridge, visit the opera house and take the ferry to Manly Beach. We walked through the botanical gardens which had gigantic spiders in webs sprawled across tree branches. I also mistook what I thought were large fruits hanging in the trees until I saw them moving and stretching their wings. They were bats! They were bigger than any other bats I had seen in person before. I would liken them to the existence of crows where I live. They are so normal to the locals but so fascinating to me.

One of the highlights of this tour for me would be the "Sidewave" or side-show we played opening for Rob Zombie in Melbourne. At the festivals, the number of people watching us would vary from very few to a nice handful of people. We're virtually unknown in Australia right now so it was surprising to have anyone there at all at tucked away 'Stage 5'. But we were humbled by those people who would stand in the blazing sun to see what we were all about. However, the sideshow was a different story. There were probably about 3500 people at the show. Again, as we opened the show, you could feel the discerning eyes of the concert goers. Very few people knew who we were and most were trying to figure out just who the hell Dommin are and are they worthy of paying any attention to? I think our music was a little unexpected. All in all I thought it was a great show and since that night, a steady stream of praise has been pouring in. Rob Zombie's show was one of the great rock shows I've ever attended. There were large screens synched up to the music playing various vintage style movie clips.

After the sideshow, we played the final 3 Soundwave shows in Melbourne, Adelaide and finally in Perth. All of us in the band were constantly having to pinch ourselves because of the sheer amusement we felt at being a part of this festival. Other festivals can keep you isolated in some ways. This festival, however, had everyone traveling and staying together. Just to give you an example, as I type this, Les Claypool from Primus is about 10 feet away enjoying a glass of wine with friends in the hotel lobby; next to him is another group of guys from Pennywise; next to them are the guys from Bullet For My Valentine and next to them are some members of Slayer. They're all just hanging out here in the lobby bar. As I look across the lobby floor near the front desk, a few guys from Rob Zombie's band are chatting it up with some people. I've never been one to be too star-struck, but it is pretty surreal to be among all these guys that have been doing this for so many years. To be honest, I still feel like a bit of an outsider and I have a feeling I always will.

Another thing that blows me away is when I think about how many bands I got to watch on this tour. Sometimes we watched from the crowd and sometimes from the side of the stage. Today I watched Foxy Shazam, Social Distortion, Rob Zombie, 30 Seconds To Mars, Queens Of The Stone Age, One Day As A Lion and Iron Maiden. I've gotten so much new inspiration from watching these performances and listening to the music. At the moment I'm feeling pretty exhausted. It's been a long day. I've grown a little weary of planes rides and shuttle buses. The guys have gone out to the after-party at some bar set up especially for Soundwave performers (where they apparently met Ke$ha). I prefer the relaxed environment of the hotel bar lounge. My eye lids feel like one hundred pounds each. I could use a massage. It's time for me to close up my lap top and leave the presence of these rock icons for the company of a soft pillow. We have an early morning flight out of Perth tomorrow. What an experience!

I thought to myself as we were arriving at the airport in Los Angeles to depart for Australia, I wonder if I'll have anything to blog about on this trip. I laugh when I think about that thought now because it was only 15 minutes of being at the airport that things became interesting.

The first thing we noticed upon arriving at the airport was that it appeared that every band on the festival was going on the same plane. It was a rendezvous of rock stars. Black clothes, tattoos, chains, piercings, plugs and guitar cases were the average attire of all those checking in. It was a collection of individuals all excited to do what they love but weary of the actual travel. It was a bit surreal to see Slash next in line behind me.

As we got to the desk, it was the beginning of what was to be a stress-filled flight. Taking a few steps back, the night before we left, I was emailed a spreadsheet of the backline equipment. This is the equipment to be rented by local dealers to all the bands playing. This includes amplifiers, drums, keyboards, etc... Usually all we have to do is bring our guitars. In the past, we have rented the exact model keyboard we use here at home. As I scan the spreadsheet, I notice under keyboard, it says Roland RD 700. At first I think, is this just their generic identifying title of the keyboard or is this the actual model? I look it up and sure enough it's a model of an electric piano. The stress begins to simmer. Someone has made a mistake in giving the backline company the impression we could use this. All this has is basic piano and rhodes sounds and none of the synths, bells, choirs, strings that we normally use. The tedious hours I spend fine tuning the tone, decay and shape of every single sound in every single song would be useless on this. We'd turn into the Dommin jazz quartet. Not bad for a smokey New York City lounge, but perfectly wrong for an outdoor rock/metal festival. I start to do my own research checking the stock of all the backline companies in Australia. There is ONE in Sydney but we don't even know if it is available. I start to think...do we have to cancel our first Brisbane performance? What are we going to do? We have no keyboards!!! Upon realizing we may have to bring our own, we call the airline to ask if something of this weight and size would be allowed. They assure us that it should be ok and if not, there are cargo companies that will pick it up from the airport and send it separately.

So back to the airport on the night of departure, we put the keyboard on the scale. It comes up at 132 lbs. The airline tells us they can't take it. They also tell us that the cargo company is not on site and won't pick it up. And even if we take it there, it's likely that, because we didn't make prior arrangements, it will take over a week. The stress went from simmer to boil. Conveniently, the company that said they would come pick up the keyboard were not answering the phone. So here we are with a 132 lb keyboard that no one can take and our plane departs in less than an hour. Fortunately a complete angel really helped us out, came back from dropping us off and took care of the arrangements. However, we didn't know the outcome until 2 hours after we landed in Brisbane. It made for a uneasy 14 hour flight. There was some light-hearted banter that came from an aussie lady in her late 70's sitting in the adjacent row with so many questions. "Are you all together? Is this a competition? Why are you all wearing so much black?" It was humorous to hear Billy James come out with the explanations.

So as I sit here in my hotel room in Brisbane, we've been told the keyboard will arrive tomorrow morning. And also another keyboard was found locally and made available from the backline companies here. So it seemed only hours ago we had nothing and now we have more than we need. It's funny and completely annoying when someone on the outside says, "what were you worried about?" As if they had the crystal ball that allowed them to know it was going to turn out ok. All I could think about was arriving at the festival grounds at 6 AM on the day of the show and tinkering around with an electric piano I know nothing about trying to manipulate the piano keys to sound like bells for "My Heart, Your Hands" and splitting the keys into the various sections we need for "Without End." All I could think of was the horrible first impression we would make here.

Hopefully it arrives without delay and it all works out okay tomorrow morning. I still have a seed of anxiety that won't go away until the keyboard is in our possession, we plug the keyboard in and it functions just fine. It's somewhere over the Pacific Ocean as I type and hopefully it's been handled with care.

It's pretty interesting so far. All the bands were on the same plane, the same shuttles and most are staying in the same hotels. I just hope tomorrow goes well.