Mary and The Ram's Dom Smith returns under his producer guise, DOM SITH on July 10. "'Playthrough of The End Times' is a reflection of the here and now," says Sith.

​"It's the video game soundtrack, or playthrough to our descent into darkness. I find comfort in making music at this time, and whatever you find comfort in, I hope you can dig this." The video was produced and edited by Leeds, UK-based alternative artist Witch of The East: https://www.facebook.com/WitchotEast/

​For more information on Dom Sith, visit: https://www.instagram.com/dom_sith/

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Dom tells all in this revealing interview about touring with The Parasitic Twins, developing Soundsphere magazine and more....

God Is 7 is the name under which Hull, UK music producer Dom Sith continues to release his minimal electronic beats. Today, to help move and groove you through your week, GI7 returns with his latest single, “Dyst0pia.” A top option for your soundtrack to social distancing, this song begs to be cranked up.

Commenting on the new cut, Sith notes, “Seriously, what else was I gonna do with my time? I wanted to come out with something, to soundtrack how I was feeling in this current time, and hopefully some other people can get into it too. It’s the soundtrack to society as it stands today. For better or worse.”

Dom Smith of Soundsphere magazine talks to Robbie Johnson at The Warren Youth Project about the origins of Soundsphere, Wobbling About and Rocking Out and more. 

A new lifestyle website and blog, based out of C4DI in Hull aims to help end the stigma around mental health and disability.

Wobbling About And Rocking Out (WARO) was developed by Hull-born disabled entrepreneur, Dom Smith who has Cerebral Palsy – the idea was developed during his time working for The Martin Trust Center for Entrepreneurship at MIT in Boston, Massachusetts, and has since taken shape following Dom’s move back to Hull, for the first time in over ten years after a period spent working in Manchester and York, and a stint working as a freelance journalist (and Storyteller In Residence) in America.

Dom now hopes to use his contacts across the disability sector, through the business he co-founded, Disabled Entrepreneurs (a project that offers free advice and support to disabled people who want to start their own business), and in the music, arts and entertainment sector (via Soundsphere, an alternative music blog covering local, national and international artists) to tell inspiring and motivational stories. The end goal is to motivate people with disabilities and mental health issues considering careers in the creative sector, as well as other industries where possible.

“The original plan was for it to just be a clothing line with a cool logo and imagery,” comments Dom. “I wanted to amalgamate everything I’d done with Soundsphere and Disabled Entrepreneurs to create a resource where people could go, and find out information, ways of coping and also read about inspiring individuals from a range of career backgrounds – in music, or the arts, principally but not exclusively – who have achieved despite a range of challenges.”

The aim of the site is to first generate content via members of the public in Hull, and the surrounding areas before starting to speak to internationally acclaimed bands, creatives, businesses and artists about the stigma behind mental health and/or disability and how they have combatted that themselves.

“I hope that we can spread the message through collaborations with Hull’s young people, as well as amazing spaces like C4DI and The Warren Youth Project, before taking the whole thing global.”

Content is currently being added to WARO’s new website which was built at C4DI in collaboration with Mattix Design, and branded by Hull artist Jessica Eleanor Zchorn (Jesse Zee Creative), at: www.waro.co.uk.

If you would like to submit your own inspiring story, you can do so via the site’s Get In Touch page. For more information you can also visit: https://twitter.com/wobbleandrock
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Ripping a page from the Killing Joke school of lo-fi noise, then setting it on fire via the way of Today Is The Day and Godflesh, Hull’s scariest kids, The Parasitic Twins are gearing up to unleash their debut EP; the furious ‘All That’s Left To Do Now Is Sleep With Each Other’ on October 26th. Recorded live and raw, at Melrose Yard Studios in York, the hardcore duo, made up by guitarist/vocalist Max Watt (Rotting Monarchs) and drummer Dom Smith (Mary and The Ram), have performed together previously as part of Seep Away was born of a desire to create the most abrasive sound they could.
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Discussing their debut single, “Massive”, Watt had this to say: “It’s about that mental sense of abandon that comes once in a while and turns our lives into ash. Temporarily, of course. Everyone’s been in that place where long term plans and prospects just become irrelevant and all you can focus on is immediate day to day shit, and one day you wake up and think “Goddamn, what was all that noise about?” At the time it’s huge but with time just becomes a notch in your past, then you gotta make the reparations, and push all that negative shit to the back.”

Hammered into the raw aggression like a nail into splintered wood is a youthful rage desperate to be heard. Taking comfortable influence from the late 90s sludge scene, the track “Flipswitch” borrows from the Raging Speedhorn school of vocal ferocity while “End” wraps a chain around the Biohazard-esque bouncy hardcore and throws it on the heap. Making “ATLTDNISWEO” a white-hot blast of crusty oblivion, perfect for fans of low end, aggro-punk. Listen to at wielding volume.

Soundsphere magazine's editor, Dom Smith has launched a new clothing line aimed at boosting confidence in people with disabilities. Check out the info video below:
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My former punk/hardcore band's EP/album is out now, and you can stream it below!

Thanks for listening!

If you want to find out more about who/what we were, visit: https://www.facebook.com/seepaway/

Dom x

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