Dopelord on tour

Rock and roll’s history with Satan goes back to before there even was rock and roll. A blast of devil-worship in the riffing realms is nothing new, and Warsaw, Poland’s DOPELORD aren't the first band to openly embrace the motif. Even so, their amplified heresy is uniquely triumphant, their fuzz-drenched apostasy genuine and glorious. The band coalesced in late 2010 in the city of Lublin, Poland, where three of the soon-to-be-band's members attended university. Merging members from two previous groups and pulling inspiration from classic cult films, 70s rock, occult themes and magical herbs, the quartet set its sights on stoner doom before the style had taken much hold in their country.

DOPELORD released their debut "Magick Rites" in 2012, a record that flaunted their love of vintage heavy rock and proto-metal, which The Sludgelord noted for its "huge unstoppable riffing in every song." 2014’s "Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult" was a leap forward in songcraft, and as the band got serious, they began touring abroad in Western Europe, the members also completing a relocation to Polish capital city Warsaw. Critically-acclaimed 2017 album "Children of the Haze" found their formula for drawn-out psych-sludge behemoths perfected, as confirmed by The Heavy Chronicles, which proclaimed, “Nothing will be the same again. There used to be doom, now there is Dopelord.”

As if heralding the actual end times, fourth LP "Sign of the Devil" arrived on March 10, 2020, just as the covid-19 pandemic took terrifying hold of the planet and called the knowable future of humanity into question. Supremely confident in their infectious bludgeon and thematic overtness, DOPELORD presented a record that stepped more fully than ever into both melody and rebellious iconoclasm. Naming "Sign of the Devil" their album of the week, Worship Metal cheered it as, “a torrent of ear-pleasingly suffocating riffs which crush all in their path," adding, "Satan would be pleased."

Derailed from their aggressive live schedule for two years, DOPELORD blasted out the “Reality Dagger" EP in 2021 before setting to work on their boldest statement yet. On October 6th, 2023, their fifth album "Songs for Satan" will induct the mighty foursome as one of Europe's heaviest and most faithful doom purveyors of the new era, crushing everything on their path under the Blues Funeral Recordings banner. Their fifth full-length "Songs for Satan" is a moment of critical mass for Dopelord. A blast of devil worship in the riffing realms is nothing new, and while they aren't the first band to openly embrace the motif, their amplified heresy is uniquely triumphant, their fuzz-drenched apostasy genuine and glorious.

Dopelord European tour 2023:

• Oct 12 - Prague (CZ) Modra Vopice
• Oct 13 - Cottbus (DE) Muggefug
• Oct 14 - Jena (DE) KuBa
• Oct 15 - Braunschweig (DE) B58
• Oct 16 - Hamburg (DE) Hafenklang
• Oct 17 - Malmö (SE) Plan B
• Oct 18 - Copenhagen (DK) Loppen
• Oct 19 - Kiel (DE) Schaubude
• Oct 20 - Groningen (NL) Café de Walrus
• Oct 21 - Nijmegen (NL) Doornroosje
• Oct 22 - Antwerpen (BE) Trix - Desertfest Belgium**
• Oct 23 - Lille (FR) La Bulle Café
• Oct 24 - Osnabrück (DE) Bastard Club
• Oct 25 - Düdingen (CH) Bad Bonn
• Oct 26 - Düsseldorf (DE) Pitcher
• Oct 27 - Berlin (DE) Lido - Heavy Psych Sounds Fest
• Oct 28 - Dresden (DE) Chemiefabrik - Heavy Psych Sounds Fest