Drugs of Faith is a grind ‘n’ roll band from Northern Virginia, where it formed in 2002. After a few demos and a song on a Terrorizer Magazine compilation CD, DOF signed with Selfmadegod Records and issued a self-titled album in 2005. In 2007 the band did a split CD with Polish avant-grind band Antigama and hit the road in Europe with Blood I Bleed on the “No Speed Limit” tour.
DOF’s second full-length album Corroded came out in 2011, which earned them slots on best-of-the-year lists from Decibel Magazine, Invisible Oranges, Pitchfork, and MetalSucks.
Drugs of Faith’s Architectural Failures 12″ made it onto best-of-the-year lists in 2013, including Washington CityPaper’s best music of D.C., Hellbound.ca’s writers’ lists, and American Aftermath. Next, the band landed a slot on Decibel Magazine’s flexi series with a cover of Sacrifice’s classic “Re-Animation” in 2014.
The next time out on tour for the band was the “Blast the East Coast” tour in the U.S. in 2015 with Antigama. After a split 7″ with the mighty Cloud Rat in 2015, DOF released the Decay 7″ in 2019.
The third full-length album is Asymmetrical, released in 2025. Metal Injection premiered the record, writing, “there’s really nothing more angry than this record at the moment.”
Other reviews of DOF’s records include Decibel writing, “just think of them as the world’s blast-friendliest noise rock band,” and No Echo writing that the band has “a twisted hookiness that only top-notch bands in the grind realm can create.” And Heavy Metal Online wrote, “If there is finesse in grind, Drugs of Faith is one of those examples.”
Discography highlights:
self-titled album (Selfmadegod, 2005)
split 3″ CD with Antigama (Selfmadegod, 2006)
This Comp Kills Fascists Vol. 2 (Relapse, 2010)
Corroded (Selfmadegod, 2011)
Architectural Failures (Malokul, 2013)
Decibel Magazine flexi (2014)
split 7″ with Cloud Rat (Selfmadegod, 2015)
Decay (Selfmadegod, 2019)
Asymmetrical (Selfmadegod and Malokul, 2025)
