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The band takes its name from the founding member and leading singer Edsel Dope's surname. It also has a close link to drug culture, the band confessed that at the beginning of their career they sold drugs to be able to purchase instruments and play live. In 1998 the band secured a record deal with Epic after cutting their teeth on the New York club circuit. They released Dope's debut 'Felons and Revolutionaries' in 1999 and it peaked at #25 on the US Heatseekers chart.
They toured the album tirelessly and supported the likes of Alice Cooper which helped push album sales to over 250,000 and spread their sound further. The follow-up 'Life' broke into the Billboard top 200 and featured two US Rock chart hit singles, 'Slipping Away' and 'Now Or Never'. The next album 'Group Therapy' missed the Billboard chart but did appear once again on the Heatseekers and the Indie charts.
The 2005 release 'American Apathy' charted at #128 and was considered a return to the commercial success the band had received at the beginnings of their career. Their highest position to date was achieved with the 2009 LP 'No Regrets' which appeared at #88 and #7 on the US Billboard and Indie Chart respectively. Since this album the band has released a single 'Selfish' yet there is still no sign of the next album.
I’ve always had industrial metal down as one of the most unusual genres - insofar that it seems to have struggled to gain too much of a foothold within the popular metal community, let alone the wider musical one - but within its own sphere, within that niche, there are plenty of hardcore subscribers. LA outfit Static-X - who, admittedly, flew a little too close to nu metal territory for their own good during the early noughties - remain a fine example of the cult of the industrial band; they enjoyed a successful enough career to allow them to release six full-lengths and tour the world constantly. Things seemed to fall apart for them pretty quickly in the late noughties, though; after their last album, Cult of Static, performed strongly critically and commercially in 2009, frontman Wayne Static put the band on the back burner to focus on solo project Pighammer, and his bandmates moved on, effectively dissolving the band. Static did tour with solo band under the Static-X name in 2012, but the shows lacked the usual fizz and crackle of the band’s heyday, as well as the sheer heaviness of their live peak; both group and fans knew it was over, with their second split announced in June of last year.
Joeg_67
Dope is definitely one of those bands that have stuck to their nu metal guns over the years despite that type of sound dying out probably about ten years ago. They have been going for about seventeen years and are still going now. Led by the singer Edsel Dope, they have released six studio albums across their career, and tonight they are performing in celebration of what they have achieved up until the present, with a bit of promotion towards their album that is due to come out this year, entitled “Blood Money”. The distortion and down tuned clad band, suited up in their best gothic gear, make up and everything, launch into a glam metal set, where everyone in this whole room pretty much looks the same. People are wearing the same make up, they have the same huge boots on there are audience members sporting the anomalous gas masks – odd. And nor can you tell who is male or female – more odd. It’s the songs that reached the charts that bring the house down tonight. Songs such as “Always” and “Addiction” demonstrating the new metal that never wore off this band.
Lannistaar
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