DROWN's Back Catalogue And Previously Unreleased Music Available Through iTunes

March 26, 2011

Southern California alt-metal act DROWN has re-released its entire back catalogue digitally through iTunes. This includes the band's debut album, "Hold On To The Hollow" (remastered and re-titled "The Hollow Years" and featuring the previously unreleased track "Embrace"); the sophomore effort, "Product Of A Two Faced World" (now including bonus material); "Throwing Away The Demos" (a collection of B-sides); and "Remixes From The Hollow" an intense album of re-mixes done by Dave Ogilvie, Joseph Bishara and Anthony "Fu" Valcic.

DROWN managed to release two critically acclaimed albums and an EP in the late '90s while touring with WHITE ZOMBIE, PRONG, CLUTCH and countless others.

Just before and during the explosion of West Coast metal icons KORN, DEFTONES, STATIC-X and SYSTEM OF A DOWN, there was DROWN, a band which was forced to stay in the metal underground due to label drama while many of their peers were achieving mainstream success. The group's 1994 debut album, "Hold On To The Hollow", was produced by Dave Olgilvie (SKINNY PUPPY, NINE INCH NAILS, MINISTRY) who praised the band by stating, "Many people use the word heavy, but it’s the only word to describe DROWN."

"These album have been out of print for such a long time and a lot of this material has never even been released, [so] it feels good to be able to get the music back out to the people where it belongs," commented DROWN founder/vocalist Lauren Boquette.

"I've been asked many times over the years where to find certain albums and songs but never really had an answer. I'm extremely proud of this music and am very glad the world can finally find it all in one place. This was our music, our statement, our lives. This wasn't a hobby or something I did to be cool, DROWN was my entire reason to live back then. The hardest part was there was always something political going on behind the scenes that made progress difficult. Now the music is available for the first time in years and the fact that people still talk about my old band and this music over a decade later is a testament that we did our jobs right."

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