Dope Entertainment's current and upcoming releases!!!
Cannibal Corpse "Evisceration Plague" CD (Korea territory only)
Good 4 Nothing "Swallowing Aliens" CD with 3 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
The Strikers "Hold My Hand" CDep
Downhell "Karma" enhanced CD
Thursday/Envy"Split" CD (Korea territory only)
Suck Stuff "New Classic" CD
Bowwow "Decennium 2" - CD with 2 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
Nature Living "After all: wishes" - CD with 5 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
Terror "The damned, the shamed" - CD (Korea territory only)
Moonshine "Eternal" - CD with 4 bonus tracks for Korea
Kalmah "For the revolution" - CD (Korea territory only)
Horse The Band "A natural death" - CD with 2 bonus tracks
Serpent "XGODX" - Digipack Format (Korea territory only)
The Devil Wears Prada "Plague" - With 2 exclusive bonus tracks for Korea (Korea territory only)
Testament "Demonic" – Remastered and with new lay out!!! (Korea territory only)
Testament "The Gathering" – with bonus track (hammer of the gods)!!! (Korea territory only)
Overkill "Immortalis" – with exclusive Korea only bonus live version of the song "old school"!!! (Korea territory only)
Mahatma "Perseverance" CD (Luxurious digipack)
Tommy Six "Flickers of Hope" CD ( Korean release only)
Suck Stuff “Rough Times Ahead” CD
Knockdown "Violence For Violence" CD
The Strikers "Nothing N Everything" CDep
Vassline “Permanence” CD
Hollow Jan “Rough Draft In Progress” CD
Same Old Story “Same Old Story” CD
The Strikers “Untouchable Territories” CD
Hakkımızda Dope Entertainment/ New BEHEMOTH Album OUT !
Dope Music was spawned last winter of 2001 after two dudes who are heavily into punk, rock, hardcore and metal got fed up of the restrictions of the major record label that they are working for. Their love for the underground music and their desire to share it to their fellow Koreans was their driving force to establish the label.
The original plan was just to license release albums of bands that they love for Korean underground music enthusiasts like them. Their very first release was Strapping Young Lad’s classic album, City. Shortly, they have decided that they also need to share to the world the unique brand of Korean punk, rock, hardcore and metal that resulted in signing of the best underground bands that Korea have to offer. So far, they have 12 releases of the best local bands and 96 licensed titles (including Cannibal Corpse, Dark Tranquillity, Shadows Fall among others), and countless number of distributed titles from well establish record labels.
2002 was an uncertain year for the label, as with most of newly formed labels, they are plagued with financial problems. It’s the time to quit or do something. Kevin (one of the owner) fueled by his love for the label invested all he got to keep it going. It is one of the riskiest and wisest decisions that he ever made as it made Dope as one of the leading labels not just in Korea but in the whole of Asia as well.
Today, Dope Music was officially known as Dope Entertainment Music Company as they have also branched out to distribution (Dope Distribution), online shop (Dope Eshop - www.buyhard.co.kr), and publishing (Dope Publishing).
Dope is in partner with the Century Family, Metal Blade Records Inc, Kick Rock Music (Japan) , Theory and Practice Records (Japan) , GMC Records , M & I Company Ltd (Japan) , Prosthetic Records (USA) to satisfy us of our punk, rock, hardcore, and metal needs
You can now buy some of our releases at INTERPUNK.COM, CDBABY.COM and you can also purchase our releases online at the Korean specialty shop www.mrkwang.com. Just click the banners below.
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time:6pm
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SUCK STUFF "1982" - Live at EBS Space last August 12, 2008 - Song taken from the new album "New Classic"
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SUCK STUFF "Cheers to you" - Live at EBS Space last August 12, 2008 - Song taken from the new album "New Classic"
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SUCK STUFF "New Classic" - Live at EBS Space last August 12, 2008 - Song taken from the new album "New Classic"
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SUCK STUFF "When we are down there" - Live at EBS Space last August 12, 2008 - Song taken from the album "Rough times ahead"
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To those of you who can’t get enough of the trademark street punkrock sounds of Suck Stuff now is the time to rejoice because it’s already confirmed that the much anticipated follow up to their last album, “Rough times ahead”, will be finally released on September 10 via Dope Entertainment records. The album title as mentioned before will be “New Classics” as we are sure that it will be a future classic within the Asian punk community.
It is recorded at Studio 7 and AKT studio and was mastered by Tom Waltz at Waltz Mastering (mastered albums of artists such as DJ Lethal, Annihilator, Extreme, etc.) so you can be sure that it has great sound quality. The cover of the upcoming Suck Stuff album was uploaded at the band’s myspace. They have also uploaded two new songs that will also appear on the said album that will serve as a teaser for those who can’t wait for the release date.
No gimmick, No frills, but definitely not your monotonous sounding 3 chord punk rock.
Please check out the very comprehensive review of Moonshine “eternal” by www.kmusiceuropa.com you can read the review Here
We have uploaded the whole bonus tracks from Moonshine's newest album, "Eternal". The songs are the Korean versions of Chaos Lover, (We) Die Cold , True Heart, Dark Reception.
The reason for such decision is a call for the Korean metal community to support their local metal bands and that to show them that there are lots of really talented Korean metal bands that deserve the same attention that their counterparts from the USA and Europe are receiving.
Support your local Korean music scene!!!
Burning Hepburn is confirmed to appear in this year’s segment of Korea’s No. 1 music festival, Pentaport Rock Festival. It will be held from July 25 to 27. Headlining this year’s event includes Travis, Ellegarden, Feeder, Hard-Fi, The Music, Underworld among others. For more info about it please visit: www.pentaportrock.com
The mastering of the new Suck Stuff album, “New Classics”, was already done yesterday and mastered by Tom Waltz at Waltz Mastering (mastered albums of artists such as DJ Lethal, Annihilator, Extreme, etc.). You can expect that it has much better sound quality than their previous album aside from the fact that it’s catchier and have much better song writing quality.
The cover artwork is being done again by the band’s bassist, Jin Suk Ryu, who also done the artwork for “Rough times ahead”.
We assure you that “New Classics” will be a landmark album for Asian punk rock scene and we have high hopes that it will help get the Asian punk bands the attention that it deserves. This is no frills, no gimmicks, just pure fun punk rock but done with a taste for good music.
Nature Living's (Japan's emo sensation) newest album, "After All: Wishes", is already out now with 5 bonus tracks for Korea. Their recently concluded Korean tour was a big success. If you're into emo, consider this a mandatory purchase.
SHADOWS FALL Schedule Headlining Slot on Busan Rock Festival , Busan,South Korea
Shadows Fall have been confirmed for the 9th annual Busan Rock Festival, set to take place August 2-3, 2008 in Busan, South Korea.
Commented by Vocalist Brian Fair ' "I am very excited to announce that Shadows Fall will be returning to Korea this year to headline the annual Busan Rock Festival!! We always have an amazing time playing club shows in Korea and we are really looking forward to the opportunity of performing in front of a large festival audience. This will be one of our only headlining shows of the summer so we plan on pulling out all the stops and unleashing a set that will cover the entire history of Shadows Fall. It is going to be a killer day of music and partying so make sure you get on down to Dadaepo Beach in Busan Korea on August 2&3. The show is free and we will be playing with a bunch of great Korean bands so there are no excuses for missing it. We will see ya there soon!!"
Brian -Shadows Fall
Also, Shadows FALL has scheduled the following National TV Live Taping on Monday, August 4
EBS TV : Space .Seoul.South Korea
"Falling to Hell", the new video from Korea's thrash metal quartet MAHATMA, can be viewed below. The clip was directed by 1999 Productions in Korea.
"Falling to Hell" is the first video from MAHATMA's latest album, "Perseverance", which was released in Europe on February 13 via Listenable Records. The CD will be made available on May 21 via Soundholic Records in Japan.
In other news, MAHATMA will spend two days (April 22-23) at Sonic Boom Studio in Korea this month with engineer Kyung Su Hwang recording a cover of the TESTAMENT classic "Practice What You Preach", to be used as a bonus track for the Japanese version of "Perseverance".
They will also be co-headlining this year’s Summer Slam (The Philippines biggest annual rock/metal events with 35,000 in attendance with Death Angel as the headliner) with USA’s DARKEST HOUR (Victory records).
For more Mahatma related news, please visit www.myspace.com/mahatmametal
MAHATMA - Falling to Hell Promo ..
MAHATMA's first ever National TV appearance.
MAHATMA - Violence / Live at EBS TV Feb 12
We have two exciting upcoming new licensed releases, first of which is “Plague” the newest album from the critically acclaimed Christian Metalcore from Dayton, Ohio, USA THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA. The Korean version will be out on February 22 and will have two bonus tracks which are not available on the US release. It is being licensed from Rise Records (USA). You can listen to some of their songs HERE
Our second upcoming licensed release will be the sophomore album from Kobe, Japan’s melodic death metal band SERPENT. The albums will be titled “XGODX” and it will be released in Korea on the 4th of March in a luxurious digipack format. Serpent had been praised for their ability to make great melodies and is being compared to old In Flames. You can listen to songs from their first album HERE
Metalunderground.com in conjunction with Korean black/dark metal band Moonshine and Dope Entertainment have posted an exclusive Moonshine track on Metalunderground.com’s MYSPACE page
"The Song Of Retrospect" is from Moonshine's previous album, "Songs of Requiem," but the band are hard at work on their upcoming album, "Eternal," due out in March on Dope Entertainment (www.dopemusic.co.kr ) . You can listen to the track exclusively on www.myspace.com/metalunderground for the next month.
Dope Entertainment launched a new website for our punk and hardcore releases. You can visit it at www.dopemusic.co.kr/punk . The new site will make it easier for you to browse our punk and hardcore related releases and news. You can still visit our old website for our metal releases and news.
The Suck Stuff “rough times ahead” is now available at CDBABY.COM. You can buy it on cd and digital format. You can directly buy it at http://cdbaby.com/cd/suckstuff
We are very happy to have Burning Hepburn as part of the Dope Entertainment family. Having them in our roster is great start for us this new year. We have been fans of their previous album and they have always impressed us with their energetic live performance. They have a new single titled “We are” and you can listen to it at www.myspace.com/burninghepburn . You can expect that a new album is on the works and hopefully a new release early this year.
Please do add them up as one of your friends at www.myspace.com/burninghepburn
We proud to announce that Korea's black/dark metal visionaries, Moonshine, have joined the Dope Entertainment family. We can't be much happier to have them as part of our family since we've been very big fan of them ever since we helped them distribute their sophomore album (The Songs of Requiem).
Moonshine is currently in the studio self-producing their self-titled third album and their debut release for Dope Entertainment. The band is expecting an end of March, 2008 release date.
Giga & Amon of Moonshine comments "We are excited and honored to be on a label that we truly respect and have proven that they are the best rock/metal record label in Korea. The sound of our new record will be true to form Moonshine. Very melodic and dark yet still extreme enough to satisfy the taste buds of those black metal purists. To all our faithful fans we promise that we will be bringing our best ever and most ambitious album very soon. We can't wait to get this record out."
Their 2nd album have been already compared to Rotting Christ and have received praises for their phenomenal ability to make mind lingering melodies and excellent guitar solos. If they were from Europe, they should have been big by now but I guess that their mastery of the genre and their exceptional musical skills will speak of themselves. It's just only a matter of time that the metal world will know that it is not a matter of where you come from but it is a matter of what you can do.
"What stands out to me about this album is the guitarist Amon's ability to create awe-inspiring melodies and catchy riffs. The time changes in the music are numerous and his guitar work holds surprises for the listener at each and every one of those time changes. Their sound is mid-paced Black Metal for the most part, but in a few spots on some tracks they have a more traditional Metal sound, even reminding me of Judas Priest at Priest's heavier moments once in a great while. The drummer is absolutely amazing and the keyboardist is a master at what he does, and I especially like the piano sound he creates with the synth. It sounds like the real thing! Still, I have to keep coming back to comment on the guitar parts. I just can't get enough of the melodies and neat little hooks this guy comes up with. He can hammer out some excellent solos as well. Phenomenal!" (an excerpt of the review of their 2nd album, Songs of Requiem, at www.metalcoven.com ) - http://www.metalcoven.com/review_moonshine_songs.html
"Lady in Black" video (from their 2nd album, Songs of Requiem)
"The Memorable Tide" video (from their 1st album)
You can visit them at www.moonshine.co.kr or you can add them at http://www.myspace.com/moonshineofficial
My new 3 album box set ODESSA delves into the disgusting involvement the United States government had in hiding Nazi war criminals that were deemed, "intelligence assets", to be used against the Russians. ODESSA also examines the enthusiastic role the Franciscan Order, Argentinian and Chilean Governments, and Arab leaders who hated the Jews played in hiding and finding new homes for former fascists. It seems many nations had a reason to keep these monsters from being captured, and this is my attempt to expose the establishment of a Fourth Reich in South America that still exists to this day. Send $13 cash/check/money order to -
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Cannibal Corpse "Evisceration Plague" CD (Korea territory only)
Good 4 Nothing "Swallowing Aliens" CD with 3 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
The Strikers "Hold My Hand" CDep
Downhell "Karma" enhanced CD
Thursday/Envy"Split" CD (Korea territory only)
Suck Stuff "New Classic" CD
Bowwow "Decennium 2" - CD with 2 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
Nature Living "After all: wishes" - CD with 5 bonus tracks (Korea territory only)
Terror "The damned, the shamed" - CD (Korea territory only)
Moonshine "Eternal" - CD with 4 bonus tracks for Korea
Kalmah "For the revolution" - CD (Korea territory only)
Horse The Band "A natural death" - CD with 2 bonus tracks
Serpent "XGODX" - Digipack Format (Korea territory only)
The Devil Wears Prada "Plague" - With 2 exclusive bonus tracks for Korea (Korea territory only)
Testament "Demonic" – Remastered and with new lay out!!! (Korea territory only)
Testament "The Gathering" – with bonus track (hammer of the gods)!!! (Korea territory only)
Overkill "Immortalis" – with exclusive Korea only bonus live version of the song "old school"!!! (Korea territory only)
Mahatma "Perseverance" CD (Luxurious digipack)
Tommy Six "Flickers of Hope" CD ( Korean release only)
Suck Stuff “Rough Times Ahead” CD
Knockdown "Violence For Violence" CD
The Strikers "Nothing N Everything" CDep
Vassline “Permanence” CD
Hollow Jan “Rough Draft In Progress” CD
Same Old Story “Same Old Story” CD
The Strikers “Untouchable Territories” CD
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