Canadian doom/sludge/stoner metal trio Dopethrone share new single and music video »Life Kills You«; European tour dates announced!

Montreal, Quebec based doom/sludge/stoner metal trio Dopethrone has released new single and music video »Life Kills You«. New album coming out 2024 via Totem Cat Records.

Music by Dopethrone, lyrics by Vincent Houde.
Recorded and mixed by Jean-Baptiste Joubeaud.
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.
Videoclip by Vincent Houde, Marianne Martinez and Rodolphe Tremblay.

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.

Dopethrone plays “Slutch Metal”, a foul Canadian mix of yellow snow, crackhead diarrhea, blood, tears and broken dreams. Their latest album »Transcanadian Anger« follows in with the trio’s widely acclaimed fourth full-length »Hochelaga« (2015) and pushes their pervasive, filthy brand of sludge metal to its most extreme and intoxicating levels. This is eight punishing tracks of the highest order, a no-frills-given riff carnage with all the sleaze and groove you can expect from a Dopethrone record, while embracing the band’s punk and hardcore roots as never before. Dopethrone’s »Transcanadian Anger« dropped on May 25th, 2018 on vinyl, CD and digital via Totem Cat Records.

Dopethrone is:
Vince – Guitar / Vocals
Vyk – Bass
Shawn – Drums

Exclusive UK Show:
02/03 – London, UK – Masters Of The Riff Fest

Life Kills You Euro Tour 2024:
07/08 – Poland, Warsaw – Hydrozagadka
08/08 – Czechia, Okruzni – Brutal Assault Fest
09/08 – Germany, Waldmunchen – Void Fest
10/08 – Germany. Hoflärm Festival
11/08 – Switzerland, Basel – Quarterdeck
13/08 – Netherlands, Nijmegen – Merleyn
14/08 – Germany, Berlin – Neue Zukunft
15/08 – Germany, Hamburg – Hafenklang
16/08 – Denmark, Copenhagen – Stengade – C’est Finit Tabarnak

Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well