Martin van Drunen is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 vocalist, who started out in the band Pestilence

Pestilence (band)

Pestilence is a death metal band from the Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and fusion elements into their music. After disbanding in order to pursue other musical directions in 1994, Pestilence has reunited in 2008...

. In this band, he also performed the bass duties live. He recorded two albums with them, Malleus Maleficarum and Consuming Impulse. After his departure from Pestilence, he joined Asphyx

Asphyx

Asphyx is a Dutch death/doom band that was formed in Overijssel in 1987.-Biography:The band was formed in 1987 by Bob Bagchus and Tonny Brookhuis. Eric Daniels was found as a second guitarist and Chuck Colli joined on vocals and bass guitar; this line up released the Enter the Domain demo...

 as the singer and bass player in 1987. For this band he recorded two albums as well. He performed guest vocals on Comecon

Comecon (band)

Comecon was a Swedish death metal project founded in 1990. The band consisted of two guitarists, a drum computer and a session singer; a different one on each album. The debut album featured the Swede Lars Göran Petrov, who was then dismissed from Entombed. Their second album was sung by Dutchman...

's second album Converging Conspiracies in 1993 and then formed his own band called Submission. In 1995, he was asked to replace Karl Willetts in the UK

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 death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band Bolt Thrower

Bolt Thrower (band)

Bolt Thrower are a British death metal band from Coventry, England. They formed in 1986 and released their first album with Vinyl Solution in 1988. The band then shifted to a new record label, Earache Records, soon becoming one of the best selling bands on that label. Their current label is Metal...

. He did two tours with them, but never recorded an album.

In 2006 an 'all star' death metal band by the name Hail of Bullets

Hail of Bullets

Hail of Bullets is a Dutch death metal band from Amersfoort. The band's lyrical content deals with the Second World War. The band has released two albums via Metal Blade Records.-Albums:*…Of Frost and War...

 was formed with van Drunen doing vocals, ex-Houwitser bass player Theo van Eekelen, Gorefest

Gorefest

Gorefest was a Dutch band from the Zeeland region of the Netherlands which was founded in 1988 as a death metal outfit by De Koeyer, Harthoorn, van Schaik and Hoogendoorn.-History:...

-drummer Ed Warby

Ed Warby

Edward R. Warby was born and raised in Rotterdam and is best known as the drummer for Gorefest and Ayreon.He also appeared in the band Agressor in 1982 and joined the Eindhoven-based prog-outfit Elegy in 1987...

 and both Thanatos-guitarists Paul Baayens and Stephan Gebédi. In May 2008 they have released an album called Of Frost and War. In October 2010, Hail of Bullets released their second album On Divine Winds.

With Pestilence

Pestilence (band)

Pestilence is a death metal band from the Netherlands founded in 1986. Later they incorporated more jazz and fusion elements into their music. After disbanding in order to pursue other musical directions in 1994, Pestilence has reunited in 2008...

 

• Malleus Maleficarum
  Malleus Maleficarum (album)
  Malleus Maleficarum is the debut album by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence.- Track listing :- Bonus tracks :Album was re-issued in 1998 on Displeased Records with two earlier demos as bonus tracks:- Demo 1 Dysentery 87 :...
  
  
• Consuming Impulse
  Consuming Impulse
  Consuming Impulse is the second album by the Dutch death metal band Pestilence. It received high regards from death metal fans as soon as it was released. 'Consuming Impulse' is often cited as a high point of original death metal movement...
  
  

With Asphyx

Asphyx

Asphyx is a Dutch death/doom band that was formed in Overijssel in 1987.-Biography:The band was formed in 1987 by Bob Bagchus and Tonny Brookhuis. Eric Daniels was found as a second guitarist and Chuck Colli joined on vocals and bass guitar; this line up released the Enter the Domain demo...

Albums

• The Rack 1991
• Last One on Earth (1992)
• Death... The Brutal Way (2009)

EPs & Others

• Crush The Cenotaph EP (1992)
• Death... The Brutal Way 7" advance single (2008)
• Live Death Doom live DVD (2010)

With Hail of Bullets

• Hail of Bullets (demo)
• Of Frost and War (2008)
• Warsaw Rising (EP) (2009)
• On Divine Winds (2010)