Dopethrone – Broke Sabbath (Review)

Dopethrone are a Canadian sludge metal band and this is their sixth album.

Following on from 2018’s Transcanadian Anger, Dopethrone have finally returned to crush everyone flat with their charismatic sludge metal brew. Broke Sabbath contains 39 minutes of filth and hatred, all thrown at the listener in typically heavy Dopethrone fashion. Ahh, it’s good to have this particular brand of sludge nastiness back in town.

Few bands do horrible sludge heaviness like Dopethrone. The style is not overly dissimilar to a number of other bands, but it’s the execution that’s key. Dopethrone not only dish out this sort of punishment naturally and without airs, but they have an uncommon capacity to find the choicest riffs, most addictive grooves, and most venomous vocals in the sludge metal toolbox.

Dopethrone know that being heavy and filthy is fair enough, but to really make a mark you have to know how to pen a good tune. As you should  hopefully expect at this point, Broke Sabbath is full of the damn things. The levels of malignant scuzzy fuzz have been ramped up massively on these new songs, and Dopethrone sound as if they’re on fire.

For a strong hit of grim caustic groove, murderous destructive intensity, and malevolent distorted vitriol, you’ve come to the right place. Throw in a big set of acerbic blackened teeth and a good splash of doomblues whiskey, and you have a giant metallic party that goes out with a bang. Broke Sabbath might kick you in the crotch and spit in your face, but it’ll show you one helluva good time as it does it.

Honestly, at this point you probably either like this sort of thing or you don’t. Dopethrone don’t care either way, as they’re just focusing on kicking out the foulest jams and living their best sludge-driven lives. If you can stomach Dopethrone’s corrosive material, tag along for a wild and dangerous ride.

Good work Dopethrone.