Drone (band)

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Drone
Drone at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival
Drone at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival
General information
Genre (s) Thrash metal , groove metal
founding 2004
Website www.dronemetal.com
Current occupation
Moritz (Mutz) Hempel
Felix Hoffmeyer
Vocals, electric guitar
Marcelo Vasquez
Bass , vocals
Fabian Harms (since 2009)
former members
bass
Martin Froese (until 2009)

Drone is a German metal band from Celle .

Band history

Mutz Hempel at the Rockharz 2018 in Ballenstedt.

Drone was founded in 2004 in Celle . In January 2006, was Demo - EP Octane published. In the same year they won the "Wacken Metal Battle 2006" of the Wacken Open Air . They also reached the West German final of the Emergenza 2006. Drone was the opening act for Die Apokalyptischen Reiter and Korpiklaani . In February 2007, the debut album Head-on Collision was released on Armageddon Records. In October 2007 Drone went on a three-week European tour with the Finnish bands Norther and Amoral . Her album Juggernaut was released in March 2009 . The official CD release took place on April 25th, 2009 in the CD barracks in Celle. At the beginning of April 2009 they went on tour in Germany with Ektomorf , Debauchery and Aggressive Fear . They continued to tour with Overkill and Pro-Pain . In May 2015 the band played an extensive European tour with Arch Enemy and Unearth .

Music genre

Drone play a mixture of Thrash Metal , Groove Metal , Death Metal and Metalcore . Fear Factory , Machine Head and Pantera serve as role models . The band itself describes their music as "101% sex metal".

Discography

Albums

  • 2007: Head-on Collision
  • 2009: Juggernaut
  • 2012: For Torch and Crown
  • 2014: Drone

EP

  • 2006: Octane

DVDs

  • 2015: Hammered, Live and Boozed

Web links

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