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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Drastic Measures is a heavy metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2021 and rapidly building a catalog of hard-hitting material. Their approach channels the directness and intensity of classic heavy metal through a modern Eastern European lens.
Drastus is a black metal band from Pays de la Loire, France, formed in 2019. They deliver drastic black metal from western France.
Drastyca is a melodic death metal band from Cruz das Almas, Bahia, Brazil. The band released their debut EP Emblems in 2018, which was made widely available on digital platforms in 2020, and contributed the track Lake of Blood to the Roadie Metal Vol. 14 compilation.
Dratna is a one-man atmospheric black metal project from Belfast, created by Andrew McKenna in 2018, drawing heavily from Irish mythology and Celtic folklore. The prolific project has released seven albums since 2018, from the debut Cliodhna through to Samhain Dawn at the Gates of Mag Mell (2025), each exploring Irish legends through melodic, folk-inflected black metal.
Rising from the Gulf Coast city of Gulfport, Mississippi, Draug has been carving out their corner of the American death metal underground since 2013. Their music channels the murky, oppressive atmosphere of the Deep South into a relentlessly brutal sound that feels both suffocating and primal. Named after the undead of Norse legend, they bring a mythic dread to a region more often associated with swamp-soaked doom.
Draugar plays black metal from Kirov in the Urals, formed in 2022 and named after the Norse undead guardians of burial mounds. Their Scandinavian-mythology name channels the dread of walking corpses through atmospheric black metal compositions.
Draugaskogur is a black metal band from Serbia, formed in 2025. Named after an Icelandic haunted forest, the project channels atmospheric black metal.
Draugen is a folk metal band from Keski-Suomi (Central Finland), active since 2011. They weave Finnish folk traditions through heavy metal.
Draugenatt is a black and viking metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2019. The project channels atmospheric black metal with Norse themes from the Norwegian capital.
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