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Oxford may be known as an elitist seat of learning for the country's more intelligent University fodder but scratch the surface and dig a little deeper and you will find a pulsating rock and roll heart. Domes of Silence have been gestating and mutating for many years to finally arrive at a sound that takes the stoner rock of the American deserts, repackages it with a uniquely British sheen and sends it back bigger, fitter and better!!! It hasn't always been so. The band initially started as a much different prospect centred around vocalist Sean Parkin's darker but infinitely less rocking studio project that resulted in the 2004 album, "Mescaline" on the Shifty Disco label. Although well received, no sooner had Parkin got this album out of his system the urge to rock bubbled in his veins and a full band began to magnetically coalesce around him. Of course, as with any band, some people have fallen by the wayside where others have stayed true and the Domes of Silence of today is a tight knit, living, breathing rock and roll organism. Combining the low-slung, molasses thick fuzz of Fu Manchu with Queen's Of The Stone Age's innate melodic pop suss and topping it off with some shamanistic, Jim Morrison meets Iggy Pop bellicose yet edgy crooning, Domes of Silence create a unique, compelling and intriguing clash of riffs, tunes, elephantine low end and propulsive rhythms. Their impressive blend of brawn and brain looks set to topple the foundations of the stoner scene and the wide