Dope Stars Inc.

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From left to right: Alex Vega, Victor Love, Grace Khold and Darin Yevonde.
From left to right: Alex Vega, Victor Love, Grace Khold and Darin Yevonde.
Background information
Origin Italy
Genre(s) Industrial Rock
Cyberpunk
Years active 2003 – Present
Label(s) Trisol Records
Website http://www.dopestarsinc.com
Members
Victor Love
Alex Vega
La Nuit
Darin Yevonde
Former members
Brian Wolfram
Grace Khold

Dope Stars Inc. are an Italian Industrial Rock band founded in the Spring of 2003 by Victor Love, Grace Khold and Darin Yevonde, and Brian Wolfram. They are a fairly recent project that capitalizes on cyberpunk imagery in their songs and appearance.

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[edit] Origins

Dope Stars Inc. was formed on 8 May 2003 by Victor Love (vocals, guitars, synthesizers, drum machine), Grace Khold (keyboards), Darin Yevonde (bass) and Brian Wolfram (guitar). Their idea was to create a "rock 'n' roll band with a gritty, highly seducing blend of punk attitude and industrial sonic attacks". Later that year, the band's first EP was released, titled 10.000 Watts of Artificial Pleasures EP. Each part of their name means something. "Dope" represents the doped, synthesized and Prozac-addicted acid that is in their blood. "Stars" represents their Rock 'n' Roll attitudes and "Inc." represents the industrial side to the music.

[edit] 10.000 Watts of Artificial Pleasures EP

Dope Stars Inc. began working on their debut EP on May 8, 2003. Victor Love took care of most of the songwriting, while Grace Khold helped with lyrics. Although, recently, Grace is no longer in the band. The EP was recorded very swiftly and cost nothing to produce. Multiple pressings sold out and it is currently out of print due to the fact that most of the songs were re-recorded for their debut album, ://Neuromance.

[edit] ://Neuromance and Make A Star EP

When Dope Stars Inc. chose to start production of their first full length release, they originally entitled it New Breed of Digital Fuckers. This name was referenced to even after Trisol Records signed Dope Stars Inc. in February 2005. Also in February, Brian Wolfram left the band and was replaced by Alex Vega, previously guitarist for Klimt 1918.

In April, it was announced that Thomas Rainer, the man behind L'Âme Immortelle, would produce three tracks on the new album. It was also announced that John Fryer would act as a producer on the new album. The name of the album changed to ://Neuromance in June 2005. ://Neuromance is a reference to the William Gibson novel Neuromancer. William Gibson is credited with establishing the cyberpunk culture. ://Neuromance was released on August 22, 2005.

Throughout 2006 the band continued working on new material, and on August 4 they released the Make a Star EP. The EP featured 4 new songs produced by Victor Love himself and a new rearranged version of "Make a Star", again produced by Thomas Rainer. Make A Star EP sold out in less than 2 weeks.

[edit] Gigahearts

After a full year of touring, Dope Stars Inc. entered the Subsound Studio to record a new full length album between July and September 2006. Gigahearts was released on November 17, 2006, and coincided with a Germany tour, supported by ASP. However, because of personal reasons, Grace Khold left Dope Stars Inc. during winter 2006/2007. In the same period guitarist La Nuit, join the band as a full-time member of the band. The band continue as a quartet, with Victor Love continuing to take care of composition and performing of all synthesizers and programming like he has done from the band's inception and for all the previous albums.

On January 27, 2007, Dope Stars Inc. performed at the premiere of Saw III in Munich, Germany. A new song titled "Getting Closer" inspired by the movie was released on the European version of the film's soundtrack. The Gigahearts Tour will start in spring 2007 and will include such locations as Germany, UK, Russia, Netherlands, Spain and Italy.

[edit] Band members

[edit] Current members

[edit] Past members

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums and EPs

[edit] Special Editions

[edit] External links

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