Montréal sludge metallers, Dopethrone, have announced their first new album in six years, Broke Sabbath. It is due out on Totem Cat Records this spring. The band has also unleashed their latest single, “Uniworse,” taken from the long-player, and will head out on a full Canadian tour, as well as a string of European summer shows, including some festival appearances. Check out the new track and more details below.
About the album, the band says: “We went full ‘Volume 4’ on this one. The last few years have been tough for the underground, we swam against a tsunami of nonsensical bullshit and still managed not to drown. It’s just like a stew, we all know that the scum always rises to the top… And here we are! We decided to turn up the ‘not giving a fuck’ knob to 11, stepped out of our rusty dumpster, gave it a spit-shine and lit the fucker on fire. We went ‘full DIY’ on the cover artwork. We grabbed a shit-ton of Hochelaga alley dirt, junk, slutch and dumped it on our saloon floor, made a concoction of ‘fake’ blood and proceeded to surgically etch the Dopethrone logo on this stinking putrid pile. We also made all our videos with no budget and full dedication. Passion is known to exceed the norms of expectation, but we’re not passionate, we’re obsessed, so you better buckle up.”
Whenever the world thinks Dopethrone has finally disappeared, be sure that Canada’s filthiest heavy trio is rustling up something evil in the dark corners of their twisted minds… The beast has awakened and it’s now ready to deliver maximum levels of grim, fuzz and fun with their sixth studio album Broke Sabbath, a noxious 7-tracker recorded by long-time collaborator Jean-Baptiste Joubeaud and coated with copious amounts of asphyxiating sonic density thanks to mastering from Brad Boatright.
Broke Sabbath will be released in the spring of 2024 on various vinyl editions, CD and digital through independent label Totem Cat Records. Don’t miss their latest video for “Life Kills You“!
Broke Sabbath tracklisting:
01 Life Kills You
02 Truckstop Warlock
03 ABAC
04 Shlaghammer
05 Rock Slock
06 Uniworse
07 Sultans of Sins
After a series of tours in 2019, Dopethrone has retreated to focus on the “delicate” baking of their sixth studio release. Broke Sabbath will be released in the spring of 2024, followed by shows in North America and Europe.
Dopethrone 2024 shows:
April 19 – Victoria, BC – Wicket Hall
April 20 – Vancouver, BC – Green Auto
April 21 – Kelowna, BC – Jackknife Brewery
April 22 – Nelson, BC – The Royal
April 24 – Edmonton, AB – The Buckingham
April 25 – Calgary, AB – Modern Love
April 26 – Regina, SK – The Exchange
April 27 – Winnipeg, MB – Handsome Daughter
August 07 – Warsaw (PL) Hydrozagadka
August 08 – Jaroměř (CZ) Brutal Assault Fest
August 09 – Waldmunchen (DE) Void Fest
August 10 – Seelbach (DE) Hoflärm Festival
August 11 – Basel (CH) Quarterdek
August 13 – Nijmegen (NL) Merleyn
August 14 – Berlin (DE) Neue Zukunft
August 15 – Hamburg (DE) Hafenklang
August 16 – Copenhagen (DK) Stengade
More from Dopethrone:
Dopethrone is a three-piece band from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Active since 2008, this DIY gang encompasses the bleakness of black metal, the steadfastness of New Orleans-style sludge, and a heavier-than-thou doom mentality. The riffs are thick, punishing, suffocating and destructive, with lyrics based on self-destruction, murder, cannabis and sleazy drug abuse. The band refers to their music as “Slutch”, the Canadian term for cold sludge or dirty mud snow. They once described it as “frozen sludge, snow covered in crackhead diarrhea, blood, tears and broken dreams.”
After their second release Dark Foil (2011), Dopethrone started drawing some attention and were invited by Voivoid to play Roadburn Festival in 2012. They since haven’t stopped growing their audience in Europe, their adoptive land. Since their formation, Dopethrone has released five studio albums as well as some collaborations with other artists, and have regularly toured Europe and Canada.
Dopethrone is:
Vince – Guitar & Vocals
Vyk – Bass
Shane – Drums
Follow Dopethrone:
https://www.facebook.com/dopethrone.mthell
https://dopethrone.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/dopethroneband/