Dom uses an assortment storm thorgerson wallpaper of Remo and Aquarian drum heads. At Hullabaloo his toms have clear Remo Emperor batter heads while the Black Beauty snare has an Aquarian Hi-energy batter head. His Ayotte kick has a Remo Powerstroke 3 batter and the Starclassic snare usually has either coated Emperor or coated CS dot heads.

Dom's first band was named 'Carnage Mayhem' ^[2], which he was in at school. Meanwhile, he befriended Matt Bellamy, who played guitar but didn't have a stable band. Not long after, Matt was faced with the chance of entering Dom's band. After two years of drop-outs, only Dom and Matt remained. Chris Wolstenholme then entered the scene, who played matthew bellamy muse drums in Fixed Penalty, and with a great "spirit of sacrifice" he began to play bass.

Finally receiving mainstream critical acclaim in Britain, and with a new American record deal, Muse undertook their first international storm thorgerson wallpaper stadium tour. It continued for about a year and saw Muse visiting Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, and France. Meanwhile, the band released five singles ("Time Is Running Out", "Hysteria", "Sing for Absolution", "Stockholm Syndrome", & "Butterflies and Hurricanes"). The US leg of the 2004 tour began ominously as Bellamy injured himself on stage during the opening show in Atlanta.^[13] The tour resumed after several stitches and a couple of days.

For Muse's third album, Absolution, Wolstenholme kept the Pedulla matthew bellamy muse basses but also recorded using Warwick basses (his old ones) and others. He also added a Fender Jazz Bass into his lineup for Sing for Absolution and a Zon Sonus Studio 4. For live performances of "Stockholm Syndrome" Wolstenholme used a beat up Pedulla Rapture SB5 - so beaten up that a tuning peg has been lost and is now only used as a four-string bass. No surprise that Wolstenholme threw it onto the stage from the audience, then into Dominic Howard's bass drum at the UK's biggest festival, Glastonbury.

For recording he uses darker K Custom Zildjian Fast and Dark crashes while he often uses the brighter A Customs eva green in live performances for their increased "cut" (K Customs were used at Live 8, Abbey Road Session, Royal Abert Hall, and so on).

For the latest album, Black Holes and Revelations, Wolstenholme has changed his rig almost completely. Now favouring Rickenbacker 4003 basses and Fender Jazz Basses for new and old songs alike, he also uses a pick on a few new songs, including Assassin, the beginning of "Map of the Problematique", the beginning of "Invincible", and the beginning and middle of "Knights of Cydonia", according to Muse's August 26, 2006, performance at the Reading Festival. He also plays an upright bass in "Soldier's Poem". The Electro Harmonix Big Muff is used more often in this album, nearly in every track, and his vocals are sometimes sung through a vocoder, matthew bellamy gaia polloni photos most noticeably in "Supermassive Black Hole". Additionally, on the recent HAARP DVD he can be seen playing guitar, with Morgan Nicholls manning the bass, and Bellamy on the piano. Specifically, on the DVD, he uses a PRS 513 Rosewood. Before "Knights of Cydonia" at the 2008 V Festival, Wolstenholme played "Man With The Harmonica" (composed by Ennio Morricone) on harmonica, which fits in with the western style of the song.

Fragments of the song "New Born" have been used in an advertisement for Oxfam designed by Tim matthew bellamy pic Burton. The advertisement uses part of the piano intro and the first driving guitar riff.