With 2011’s Ultrawired, Dope Stars Inc. became the first band whose music was featured on the popular website The Pirate Bay, offering their album as a free download for millions of visitors and leaving their fans to choose how to support the DIY group: by donations, sharing the music or by directly buying CDs and merchandise. Appearances at festivals like Wave Gotik Treffen, Dark Munich Festival or Castle Rock followed to push them even deeper into the modern Rock world. They have also toured the globe on stages across Europe, Russia, Japan and the US, supporting bands such as London After Midnight, Apoptygma Berzerk, Nightwish, Deathstars, and Combichrist, just to name a few. As a result, the band has appeared on the soundtracks of the horror movie saga Saw II, III and IV. After catching a deal with the German label Trisol Music Group, the Italians released three full length albums: Neuromance (2005), Gigahearts (2006) and 21st Century Slave (2009), while building up a huge community of loyal fans spreading the word and sharing the music through Internet and global networks. With the release of their self-produced EP, 10,000 Watts Of Artificial Pleasures, in 2003 the Rome based Cyberpunk band created their own mix of industrial beats, acid trance-synths and Rock-n-Roll sound. is a band like none other, able to take the rude, aggressive sound of ’70s Punk Rock and combine it with twenty-first century digital mastery.
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