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. The band hit the road with Blood I Bleed in 2007 on the “No Speed Limit” European tour.
DOF’s second full-length album Corroded came out in 2011, which earned them slots on best-of-2011 lists from Decibel Magazine, Invisible Oranges, Pitchfork, and MetalSucks.
Drugs of Faith’s Architectural Failures 12″ made it onto best-of-2013 lists 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 the road was the “Blast the East Coast” tour with label mates Antigama in the U.S. in 2015. After a split 7″ with Cloud Rat, DOF released the Decay 7″ in 2019.
The new full-length album is Asymmetrical. Metal Injection premiered the record, writing, “there’s really nothing more angry than this record at the moment. I mean really, this thing is an aural fucking beating through and through.”
Other reviews of DOF’s records include Decibel writing, “just think of them as the world’s blast-friendliest noise rock band.” No Echo wrote 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)
