Drone (band)
Drone | |
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Drone at the 2015 Hexentanz Festival |
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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
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