History Fear of Domination

Fear Of Domination is at least two artists:

1) A Finnish heavy industrial metal band.

2) A Japanese melodic death metal band.

1. Fear of Domination is a Finnish industrial death metal band with a wide range of musical influences. The band was originally formed in 2006 by Saku Solin (vocals), Jan-Erik Kari (guitar) and Jaakko Arteli (drums). Soon Marko Salmikangas was taken in to play lead guitar and Lauri Ojanen to play the bass. Within the next two years Johannes Niemi took over lead guitar and Niina Telén joined the band to play the keyboards and sing backing vocals. In 2010 Vesa Ahlroth took the throne of the drummer, completing FoD's current line-up.

The band is signed to the record label Osasto-A and has released two albums with the company. FoD had recorded two demos earlier, the first of which was never released. The band's first album, Call of Schizophrenia, was released in May 2009 and received great reviews. With the release of their debut album Fear of Domination managed to expand their fan-base all the way to Canada.

After getting to know the music scene better FoD began to prepare for their next album. Finally, after a long wait, their second album Create. Control. Exterminate. was released in November 2011. The new album generated a lot of positive feedback, including a #1 spot on Radio Rock's most downloaded single list for 4 weeks in a row. This set the band's goals for the future even higher than before. Slowing down was no longer an option. Right now the band's main goal is to focus on live shows and start piecing together their third studio album.

Current lineup:

Saku Solin - Vocals

Niina Telén - Keyboards

Johannes Niemi - Lead Guitar

Jan-Erik Kari - Guitar/Backing Vocals

Lauri Ojanen - Bass

Vesa Ahlroth - Drums

Find FoD on the net:

www.fearofdomination.com

www.myspace.com/fearofdomination

2. Fear Of Domination is Japanese melodic death metal band from Tokyo. It was formed in 1999 by lead singer Kenshi. In 2000 band had 3 members Kenshi (in guitar at the time), Nao and 光輝, they also released album FEAR under Shinko records. Soon after the release, band members noticed that Kenshi was great singer and he decided take palace as lead singer. In 2004 new member Yusuke was announced to take melodic parts under his control. 2008 they released new album named Illusion tree and later Xen joined to take lead guitars.

Band was in early more visual kei than nowdays, but couple members still use visual style in their clothes.

Kenshi - Lead vocals

光輝 - Death vocals, bass

Yusuke - Keyboards, FX

Nao - guitar

Xen - lead guitar

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