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2502 First Ave. N., 59101, Billings, MT, US

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Capacidade: 500

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Abertura dos portões: 20:00

Para fãs de: Metal, Rock, Eletrônico, e Hip-Hop.

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Dope biografia

Dope is an American industrial metal band from Illinois which formed in 1997 and currently consists of Edsel Dope, Nikk Dibs, Jerms Genske and Dan Fox.

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.

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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.

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