Draconic’s musical journey began in 2003 as a project of keyboardist Branislav Stanković, who with the help of studio musicians from some of Serbia’s most prominent metal bands, recorded an album entitled “Conflux.”
The record was released in 2004 by local label Rock Express Records.
With intentions of turning the Draconic studio project into an actual working band, Stankovic enlisted musicians from Belgrade’s local metal scene, two of which were guitarist Vanja Dusan Andrijasević and bassist David Lazar Galić.
Once the promotion of “Conflux” had ended and the band began working on new material as a group, it became glaringly obvious that the new line-up had no interest in continuing to write music in the symphonic black metal style of the debut.
Draconic spent the next several years honing their craft live and in the studio, writing and demoing new music, and searching for the right musicians to complete the new lineup. The culmination of this process came in the fall of 2008, with the completion of the band’s second album “From the Wrong Side of the Aperture.”
The music Draconic embody today is an amalgam of metal styles bridging the gap between old school and new—a monstrously heavy and layered slab of modern progressive metal.
The band creates music that puts lessons learned from the past into a modern context, providing the listener with metal that is both impressive and futuristic, but also sincere and rooted in tradition.
The band inked a deal in late 2008 with Austrian metal label Noisehead Records, who released “From the Wrong Side of the Aperture” worldwide on April 3, 2009.
After two turbulent years filled with various turmoil and having to make changes to the band’s lineup yet again, Draconic are starting a new chapter once more.
The band released the song “Hospitals” in August 2011 as a sign of new life and a new beginning.
Draconic plan on releasing yet another single in the fall of 2011, after which they will begin preparing material for their next album.
Draconic line-up:
David Lazar Galić – bass
Branislav Stanković – keyboards
Vanja Dušan Andrijašević – guitars
Milan Jejina – drums
Jovan Dorkin – vocals
Discography:
Conflux (2004)
From the Wrong Side of the Aperture (2009)
Hospitals (single) (2011)
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