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Drainland is a sludge, doom metal, and crust band from Dublin, Ireland, active since 2006. With nearly two decades of activity, the band are veterans of the Irish sludge and crust punk underground.
Founded in Putney, Vermont in 2023, Draiodoir (the Irish word for druid or sorcerer) bring a pagan sensibility to their blend of stoner and doom metal, rooting their slow, fuzz-heavy sound in something earthy and ritualistic rather than purely nihilistic. Vermont's deep rural character and Celtic heritage seem to genuinely inform the project, giving the music a quality that feels less like genre exercise and more like incantation.
Draken is a stoner metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2013. The project delivers heavy, fuzzed-out stoner metal riffs from the Norwegian capital.
Drakenborg is a melodic black metal band from Aurillac, France, formed in 2019. They deliver melodic black metal from the rugged Auvergne highlands.
Drakenhof — named for the vampire castle of Warhammer Fantasy lore — arrived in 2022 as an anonymous American black metal project, shrouded in the deliberate obscurity that suits both the name and the genre. Their approach is rooted in the raw, underground tradition, with the mythological and gothic trappings of the name hinting at a sound more interested in dark fantasy and occult menace than in contemporary atmospheric trends.
Drakh plays death metal from the Azores, active since 2018 and representing extreme metal's unlikely outpost in the mid-Atlantic volcanic archipelago. Their remote island setting lends genuine isolation to music already steeped in darkness.
Drakher is a heavy metal band from Puerto Montt in Chile's Los Lagos region, formed in 2002 out of an earlier Judas Priest tribute project called Force Down. The band released their debut full-length "Primal Machine" in 2005 and followed it with "Rejector" in 2010 on Australis Records, recorded at Studio Sade in Santiago; drummer Walter Tölg is also known for his work with Chilean black metal band Hetroertzen.
A speed and power metal band from Jurbise, Hainaut formed in 1983, Drakkar are among Belgium's most enduring heavy metal acts, their first demo produced by Scorpions drummer Rudy Lenners and leading directly to a deal with Mausoleum Records and the 1988 debut X-Rated. The band subsequently opened for Metallica, Queensrÿche, Overkill, and Slayer, and remains active today with albums including Once Upon a Time... in Hell! (2014) and Diabolical Empathy (2017).
Drakkon is a thrash metal band from Varpalota, Hungary, formed in 2017. The band deliver aggressive, riff-forward thrash metal from the Hungarian underground.
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