Drowning, which featured(members from Diabolic) and now renewed dark Death Doom band Eibon, lasted for a decade only, from 1996 to 2006, but for sure will stay for long in the memory of Death Metal fans.
Started as an hardcore outfit that soon turned to a more Death Metal oriented one with hardcore elements (the true Deathcore, not the crap you now know as being labelled that way!), Drowning never stopped to darken their sound and lyrics and to accelerate the tempo and enhance the brutality, dropping their Hardcore roots as the years were passing by to focus on a more and more dark old-school Death Metal.
Plagued with line-up problems that led them not to be able to take all the opportunities they were offered at the time (like a set at the New England Metal Fest or an European tour), they nevertheless managed to tour France, Belgium, Netherlands and UK intensively as well as to release two quality full-length.
1997 saw the release of a split 7″ with Restrain (Back To Basics) and an appearance on Overcome records’ “In this other land” compilation. In 1999, they released their debut, untitled, MCD (Released Power) while in 2001 they entered the studio again to record a four song promotape that would get them a deal with Bones Brigade records.
At first, the label offered us a seat on the four way split CD “Created to kill” which was to give their chance to then quite unknown Death Metal bands which later became great names within the underground scene: Aborted, Brodequin and Misery Index were the three other ones.
Then came the debut album, “Age old Nemesis”, in 2002, followed in 2005 by its follow-up, “Apocalyse unsealed”, two albums that will stay for long as milestones of pure Death Metal, the brutal and dark way.
