Dragged Into Sunlight is an extreme metal band from Liverpool, England. Formed in 2006, the group has kept its identities hidden ever since: members wear balaclavas in photos and perform with their backs to the crowd. The lineup is known only by initials - T., J., T. and C.
The band blends death metal, black metal, doom and sludge into a dense, punishing sound. Their 2009 debut Hatred for Mankind, produced by Billy Anderson, remains one of the hardest-hitting British extreme metal records of its decade. The follow-up Widowmaker (2012) is a single forty-minute track. A collaboration with Gnaw Their Tongues, titled N.V., came out in 2015.
Dragged Into Sunlight shows are known for their atmosphere: candles, one strobe light and heavy smoke. The band leaves nothing on the stage - and the audience treats the whole thing like a ritual.
Dragged Into Sunlight announced their first North American tour in nine years, with Mizmor and Meth. as support.
Meth. was removed from the tour lineup; the band later issued a full statement about the dismissal.
