Doomed Confessionary: Todd, Ian, Pick & Jared (World Domination Organization)
(Left to right: Ian, Todd, Jared, Pick)
Hailing from Indianapolis, Indiana, World Domination Organization is a powerhouse collective of musicians fueled by heavy, fuzz-driven soundscapes and dark, horror-inspired energy. Forged in distortion and attitude, W.D.O. delivers raw intensity with every riff and rhythm.
Firmly standing out to emit a crushingly, heavy-horror and literature inspired, psycho-doom monster. Work Domination Organization forms amid the chaos of splintering groups an collects all willing to sacrifice nothing hut to have the reverherations preserved in their soul.
Guided by the talents of Christian “Pick” Nield (guitar), Ian Keith (guitar), Jared Asher (drums) and J. Todd Cramer (bass, vocals), W.D.O. has a ferocious appetite for metal music that seeks to unhinge the mind.
Can you please say a few words about your band?
Ian: Four mf’ers known to break‘em off some.
Jared: We all bring a different perspective of heavy to W.D.O.
What was the biggest challenge for the band?
Ian: Schedules. I tour for a living and am gone a lot and life happens for all of us.Jared: we all have jobs, lives and families that can limit our availability together, but when we do, we crank it up.
What can you be most proud of so far?
Todd: we are just starting to develop a working relationship with Electric Desert Records, so seeing W.D.O. develop, individual sacrifices by everyone, seeing our music released into the wild.
Ian: I am most proud of the four of us melding into a group instead of being just dudes.
Jared: Making the best in the limited amount of time we have together once a week.
What was your biggest regret?
We were hoping to have material ready last year for a music distribution company to work with but that fell through. Let’s see what excitement this year brings for us. No more jail time, please.
What was the best concert/tour so far and why?
Jared: I do love the production aspect on all the new tours. I am a huge pyro guy, with stage shows and energy and to me that all started with KISS. Luckily for me, I got to see them 4 times before they broke up, which includes the Dressed To Kill – Alive Tour, Destroyer, Love Gun – Alive II and then the Dynasty Tour.
Ian: My first tour as a guitar tech was Ozzfest 99 with Slayer. Hard to top that whole summer.
Todd: I love small venue shows where the energy from the music really checks in. Punk shows, doom shows. Any band that brings energy, even the drop, slow and chug can have as much powerful energy as a thrash show.
Pick: Lollapalooza ’93, Pantera and Type O Negative ‘94.
What was the biggest surprise on the music scene for you?
Ian: Nothing surprises us with music. It just gets weirder and weirder, but we are trying to stay true to what we cut our teeth on.
What is currently in your heavy musical rotation?
Todd: Wolftooth, Moon Temple, Wizard Tattoo, Radian, Blessed Black, Mound Builders, Devil To Pay, Faerie Ring, Sacred Leather, Heavy Temple, Strangled By The Sun, Midnight Whiskey Massacre, Omen Killer, Burnt Witch, Human Debris, Chokesetter, Ice Howl, Pale Horseman all are on my current underground heavy/fuzz playlist.
Ian: Earthless, Drive Like Jehu, Cutthroats 9, Baroness, older Mars Volta, JJs Paradise Players Club, Torche, Kongh, Supershit 666, Hellacopters, Pelican, Fela Kuti, Red Fang, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Pigs, Kowloon Walled City.
Jared: Love supporting local bands, Faerie Ring, Wolftooth, W.D.O. LOL!! I have been doing the mixing of the recordings, so I hear a lot of our stuff.
Pick: Black Sabbath, Castle Rat, Slayer, Gates Of Slumber, Lung Burner, Sun Crow, Cleen, Henge, Crooked Skulls, Dope Smoker recently!
What was the best advice you’ve ever been given as a musician?
Todd: Stay true to yourself. Ever since I was a wee lad, I have loved the thought of writing and performing my own music. Heavy music!
Ian: Stay in school, kid.
Pick: Don’t pose – be you in everything you do.
Jared: Play with meaning and purpose and don’t hold back.
What are your guilty pleasures?
Jared: Enjoying good food and beer with friends.
Ian: Collecting gear. It’s a sickness. Being out in nature away from humans.
Todd: Watching the old Kung Fu classics. Nothing beats Five Deadly Venoms.
Pick: Sleeping in (no alarm clock and throwing socks out the window when it rains.
Can you say something more about the current music scene in Indiana?
Ian: I’ve lived here in Indianapolis for 21 years, but I’m always gone on tour so I’m not really in touch with the scene here.
Jared: The original scene is so hard, people don’t realize the true talent from these original bands. Support your local music!
Where can we see you live this year (concerts/tours)?
Hoping to get a show or two here or maybe in the Midwest area. We do plan to start playing out soon. Once we complete the recording process and get some more songs out to the public, so people are familiar with us.
What are your plans for the future as a band?
Todd: We will continue to make non-serious video content for our YouTube channel, release a full-length on vinyl.
Ian: Write heavy stuff. Play heavy stuff live. Repeat.
Jared: Write, write, write, expand some geographic boundaries, and build our fan base.
Pick: Write heavy music and take it to the people.
How can people best support your band?
Todd: Share our stuff. Like our stuff. Buy our stuff. Get low and heavy.
Ian: We are on the interwebs so like and listen to the songs and come have a drink with us at our shows.
Jared: Find us on most of the social media outlets: worlddominationorganizationband.com. Like, follow, subscribe and crank it up loud enough so your neighbors can enjoy it as well!
Pick: Sharing our stuff-build and support the original music scene in your area.
Do you have any messages for your listeners?
Todd: Support the heavy music scene in your area and make it a real thing. See an original band and bang your head!
Ian: More will come. Better and better. We have come to take over!
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well