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Dope Stars Inc. 21st Century Slaves or Cyberwarriors?
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With lyrics inspired by
Cyberpunk imagery and subculture Dope Stars Inc. have beeen mixing industrial beats, acid synths and distorted sounds with a bratty rock’n’roll sound and attitude since their foundation in may 2003.
With their debut self-produced EP
“10.000 Watts Of Artificial Pleasures†the band catched the interest of the international press and and got immediately signed with Trisol Music Group to release two albums,
“Neuromance†(2005) and
“Gigahearts†(2006), infecting through the years an horde of loyal fans and spreading like a virus over communities and golobal networks.
The band
toured intensively between 2005 and 2008 performing on stages across all Europe and supporting bands like London After Midnight, Kirlian Camera, ASP, Apoptygma Berzerk, Nightwish, Combichrist, My Dying Bride among the others. The band also performed at the biggest European festivals like Mera Luna, Wave Gotik Treffen, Amphi Festival, Summer Darkness, On A Dark Winter Night, Infest UK and Trash Fest I & II in Finland. Songs of Dope Stars Inc. also appeared 3 times on the soundtrack albums of the horror movie saga of
"Saw".
The new 3rd studio album upcoming this summer has been licensed to Trisol Music Group in Europe, Metropolis Records in North American and Subsound Records in italy. Before it's release an
advance EP including 2 tracks of the new album and titled "
Criminal Intents / Morning Star - Double Feature EP" will be released on 21st April 2009. After the ep some dates are being planned in May and an International Tour will follow after the full lenght album release.
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Cd Reviews
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10.000 Watts (7)
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Auteur: Ergo
Infectious and Horny.
That is the best way to describe the band Dope Stars Inc. as well as their club hit ’10.000 Watts’. These BlackStreet Boys in the well-thought out cybergothic outfits flirt with the camera, but also remain tough and manly. ...Read more
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21st Century Slave (8)
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Auteur: TekNoir
Following the rather succesful Criminal Intents EP, Italian Dope Stars Inc. are back with a new studio album named 21
st Century Slave. With an exciting mixture of gothic glam and industrial rock drenched in electro influences Dope Stars Inc. makes a...Read more
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Criminal Intents / Morningstar (7.5)
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Auteur: TekNoir
This new EP from Dope Stars Inc is actually a double single and a series of remixes. ‘Criminal Intents’ is a danceable grooving industrial rock song with strong electro undertones and ‘Morning Star’ is a sensitive ballad with heavy electro ...Read more
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