Biography

Ivan Khilko, Ethan Griffiths, Richard Johnson

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, Drugs of Faith signed with Selfmadegod Records and issued a self-titled album in 2005. Its first tour was the “No Speed Limit” European tour with Blood I Bleed in 2007.

In 2011 the band released the full-length album Corroded, which earned them slots on best-of-2011 lists from Decibel Magazine, Invisible Oranges, Pitchfork, and MetalSucks. Corroded was listed in the essential discography for 2011 in the book Choosing Death, written by Decibel editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian.

Drugs of Faith’s Architectural Failures EP made it onto best-of-2013 lists including Washington CityPaper’s best music of D.C., Hellbound.ca’s writers’ lists, and American Aftermath.

The band landed a slot on Decibel Magazine’s flexi series with a cover of Sacrifice’s classic “Re-Animation.” in 2014.

Drugs of Faith teamed up with label mates Antigama for the “Blast the East Coast” tour in the U.S. in 2015.

The latest release is the 7″ Decay from 2019. Decibel premiered the record, writing, “just think of them as the world’s blast-friendliest noise rock band” while No Echo, which premiered a music video for the EP, wrote, “there’s also sections that jump out at you with a twisted hookiness that only top-notch bands in the grind realm can create.”

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)