Band:	Dark Domination
Album:	Rebellion 666
Style:	Black metal
Release date:	May 31, 2006
A review by:	jupitreas

01. Discovering The True Ways Of Satan
02. Interlude 1
03. Rebellion 666
04. Interlude 2
05. Tormentor Of Orthodoxy
06. Interlude 3
07. As Kold Is Er Mit Hjerte
08. Interlude 4
09. When Master Satan Returns
10. Interlude 5
11. Together We Rape The Son Of God
12. Interlude 6
13. Baphomet
14. Interlude 7
15. War March Against Christianity
16. Edasi, Saatana Lapsed [bonus]

Dark Domination is a black metal band from Latvia, a country that has thus far not really been responsible for a lot of quality metal. As much as I would like to say something good about a band like this, I am afraid I simply cannot. Rebellion 666 is a pretty mediocre and occasionally quite annoying release.

First of all, let me address by far the most annoying feature of Rebellion 666, which is that the track listing on the back of the box in no way represents that which is on the actual CD! OK - there are indeed 9 songs on this album; however, the band saw it fit to include 7 lengthy spoken-word interludes between them without mentioning it anywhere. This is extremely annoying since if we're listening to the album on a conventional CD player it is virtually impossible to quickly find out which song we are actually hearing (for your convenience, I submitted the correct track listing here). On top of all this, the spoken-word interludes consist of someone mumbling something in what sounds like French over a layer of computer-game sounding noise and are basically a terrible ear-sore.

But what about the music? After we get past the track listing issue, we discover that the black metal that Dark Domination offers here is pretty competent but definitely not surprising in any way. Essentially this is your run-of-the-mill traditional black metal without anything particularly distinctive about it to set it apart from other bands populating this already oversaturated genre. Don't get me wrong, this band does know a thing or two about writing catchy black metal but we've heard it all before. On the up-side, the production is punchy and selective, so that we can hear the manic laughter on the last track very clearly. If you are a hardcore black metal fan I suppose this release will still appeal to you but for the rest of us, I would recommend looking for something more original.