Dope

The success and growth of Dope is complex and impressive and on their new album, appropriately titled NO REGRETS, Dope continues to show a plethora of reasons that their fans keep coming back for another fix.

NO REGRETS is the band’s most impressive work to date. The songs are full of heavy metal hooks and the album oozes the riff-driven energy that we’ve come to expect from Edsel and his band. The most notable progression on NO REGRETS is the obvious emphasis put on the technical side of the band and their musicianship. It’s especially obvious in the guitar work and in the drum patterns. “One of our main goals was to smarten things up and to really let the lead guitars shred. The tunes are smarter, but they still have that Dope swagger to them,” proclaims Edsel. That approach influenced the drums to get faster, the sound to get more precise, and at the end of the day, made us all have to practice more and play better. It was fun and challenging to push ourselves musically. Edsel produced NO REGRETS at his studio in Chicago, IL and shares the majority of the musical and production responsibilities with his long-time guitarist and songwriting partner “Virus.” The NO REGRETS lineup is rounded out by drummer Angel Bartolotta and bassist/vocalist Tripp “Lee” Tribbett.