The folks at Paper and Iron Booking have given us two pairs of tickets to giveaway for this hardcore noisefest at West Germany.
To be in with a chance to win these soon to be much-sought-after tickets just tell us which record label their recent album Natural History was released on.
Yes, sometimes I like to make it difficult for you, in this case you actually might have to read all of the text below but that’s just the teacher in me who likes to make his students work that little bit harder from time to time.
Send your answers as usual to winwinwin@www.blitzgigs.de on or before lunchtime on October 15th. Lunchtime for me being 10am, I am very strict about these things as you all know.
Dope Body, Baltimore, MD’s four-headed beast, fired their second salvo, Natural History, on May 22nd. Borne in 2008 from the dance-friendly confines of the city’s Wham City scene, this unclassifiable heavy ventured out into the night to find more like-minds, but came back empty-handed – i.e., they stand alone. Evolving from blasting three-piece to blistering four-piece, they enjoy writing their own songs, touring endlessly, having fun and pummeling basement parties with a gleeful, wide-eyed fanaticism that the more reasonable among us might mistake for insanity (it ain’t entirely so).
Dope Body writhe under their own influences and experiments, swinging from gutterish sludge-punk to snake charmer-on-fire within the confines of a singletune. Rather than compare their ferocity to another contender, just know that Dope Body is punk spelled other-wards and standing on its hands,
Dope Body released their LP debut Nupping [Hit Dat/Hoss] in 2011. Natural History is their first release on Drag City.
And now that you’ve behaved like model pupils you may be rewarded with some brain-meltingly hard music, congratulations:
Dope Body / “Enemy Outta Me” from Matt Porterfield on Vimeo.
