Dopelord

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.
DOPELORD 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 DOPELORD’s formula for drawn-out psychsludge
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.
Songs for Satan showcases the band’s equal mastery of lumbering plod and silvery hooks, and mines Polish
Catholicism’s decades of oppression for lyrical fuel. Tracks like “Satan’s Call,” “The Chosen One,” “One
Billion Skulls” and “Worms” are pointed in their defiance of the church’s cultural dominance, even while
managing to be contagiously singable at the same time.

2012     Magick Rites

2014     Black Arts, Riff Worship & Weed Cult

2015     Dopelord / Major Kong (Split)

2017     Children of the Haze

2019     4 Way (Split)

2020     Sign of the Devil

2023     Songs for Satan