Tag: Drottnar

April 12, 2024

Song of the Day: Drottnar - Cul-De-Sac

Impossibly difficult to categorize into any nice, neat genre, Norway’s Drottnar originally formed as Vitality, in 1996. They began playing death metal, but changed names when their sound shifted towards black metal. The band’s sound continued to evolve more and more, incorporating progressive and technical elements into something more avant-garde over time, while still retaining elements of black metal, death metal, and other extreme sounds. It is this level of experimentation and excellence that both sets them apart from their peers musically, and simultaneously makes their music less accessible to the general populace of listeners–even amongst fans of heavy music.… Continued →

February 15, 2014

Drottnar - Cul-De-Sac

Check out Drottnar‘s new lyric video for “Cul-De-Sac,” a track from their 2013 album, Stratum. Drottnar is a band from Norway who describes their sound as bunker metal: “bizarre; orthodox bedlam skillfully crafted through cutting-edge unorthodoxy.”… Continued →

October 13, 2012