The
riff comes in many forms. Sometimes it’s clean, catchy and elegant.
Sometimes it’s filthy, grimy and about as elegant as a sledgehammer to
the sternum. DOPETHRONE is the latter. This D.I.Y trio
from Hochelaga, Montreal’s trashiest ghetto, wallows in smoke, demons,
death, the occult and enough psychotropic drugs to send both Hunter S.
Thomspson and William Burroughs on one hell of a trip. Delivering some
of the filthiest, most skull-crushing riffs drenched in distortion and
fuzz, they encompass the bleakness of black metal, the steadfastness of
New Orleans-style sludge with a heavier-than-thou doom mentality.
Riffage is thick, punishing, suffocating and destructive and demonic
vocals are harsh, visceral and animal-like for tunes dripping with
pervasive THC. DOPETHRONE take over doom and view it through a crusty lens, and that perspective rise the genre to new heights of sonic filth.
After they released their first LP "Demonsmoke" on STB Records, the band unleashed "Dark Foil"
via Totem Cat Records in 2011, then got invited to Roadburn Festival in
2012 by festival curators Voivod. The performance was followed by the
release of third album "III", in support of which the trio toured Europe two times. Montreal’s distortion-powered sledgehammer DOPETHRONE
is set to be back in 2015 with a fourth heavier and most of all
thrashier full-length… The band will perform at DesertFest London and
Berlin and Heavy Days In Doomtown this spring, and will make their very
first appearance in Los Angeles for a special performance in November !
UPCOMING SHOWS:
22.04 - LYON (FR) MJC Ô Totem w/ EyeHateGod
23.04 - STRASBOURG (FR) Molodoï w/ EyeHateGod
24.04 - LONDON (UK) Desertfest London
25.04 - BERLIN (DE) Deserfest Berlin
28.04 - PARIS (FR) Glazart w/ Acid King & Black Cobra
29.04 - AMSTERDAM (NL) TBA
30.04 - ATHENS (GR) An Club w/ Belzebong
01.05 - COPENHAGEN (DK) Heavy Days In Doomtown
03.05 - HAMBURG (DE) TBA
DOPETHRONE IS:
Vince – Guitar & Vocals
Carl – Drums
Vyk – Bass
