DRAUGGARD ("The Domain Of The Undead" in ancient Iceland) was formed by the guitarist and composer Dmitry Ulybin and the drummer/lyrics writer Mikhail Panphilov in spring 2003 in Nizhniy Novgorod city (Russia). Aleksandr "Sataneev" Kalentiev (ex-Morok) was invited to the band as a singer. DRAUGGARD recorded their first demo entitled "Wodan id est Furor" in December 2004. The demo included 4 tracks and was distributed in a limited number of copies. The record featured the drummer's vocal on 2 tracks. In 4/16/2005 DRAUGGARD performed live for the first time supporting MORTEM. DRAUGGARD appeared to be the first band of Nizhniy Novgorod heavy metal scene to perform raw, fast, evil black metal with some Immortal influences. Soon after the first show Roman Kravchenko joined the band as a bass-guitarist and DRAUGGARD started to perform regularly live on stages of Nizhniy Novgorod. DRAUGGARD shows provoked rather an unequal response from the audience. The band was either loved or hated and no indifference towards their music took place. In 7/18/2006 the band released "Baldr's Dreams" single thus taken an evident direction to a technical thrash/black metal. The song "Baldr's Dreams" consequently featured in "Armageddon Vol. 1" black/death metal compilation released by CD - Maximum lable. Unfortunately Roman Kravchenko left the band for the private reasons and the new bass - man Denis Maximyuk was enrolled to the band in September 2006.
Today DRAUGGARD is an evident leader of Nizhniy Novgorod heavy metal scene. Beside the sets with such bands as ASSASSIN, BELPHEGOR, CATAMENIA, HIERONYMUS BOSCH, URSKUMUG etc. the band was honoured to be the first Russian band to play at WACKEN ROAD SHOW 2008 in Kiev and Moscow alongside with OVERKILL, ENSLAVED, SAMAEL, TRISTANIA and DEVILISH IMPRESSIONS, toured as support to the Turkish melodic black metal band EPISODE 13 and has gained a good reputation in Moscow and Saint - Petersburg as well. Now DRAUGGARD headlines local shows and recording the debut album.
LIVE VIDEOS
BERSERKER'S RAMPAGE
NIDGEDICHTE
THE NIGHT FOR SINFIJOTLI
DRAUGGARD FAN AREA
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