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| | The Serbian metal band Draconic began in 2003 as a project of keyboardist Branislav Stankovic, who with the help of studio musicians from some of Serbia’s most prominent metal bands, recorded an album entitled "Conflux." | | The Serbian metal band Draconic began in 2003 as a project of keyboardist Branislav Stankovic, who with the help of studio musicians from some of Serbia’s most prominent metal bands, recorded an album entitled "Conflux." |
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| − | The record was released in 2004 by local label Rock Express Records.
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| − | 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 Andrijasevic and bassist David Lazar Galic.
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| − | 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.
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| − | Draconic spent the next several years writing and demoing new music, and searching for the right musicians to complete the new line-up. 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."
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| − | The music of the second album was much different in style from the debut. Obvious influences could be heard coming from North American modern metal bands like Fear Factory and Strapping Young Lad, but also from modern Swedish melodic death metal bands like Soilwork, Scar Symmetry and In Flames as well. Draconic's music, especially the guitar playing and more prominent keyboards, is also very much influenced by progressive metal bands like Dream Theater, Fates Warning and Symphony X.
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| − | 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. The album was met with excellent reviews abroad, but especially at home in Serbia.
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| − | The band had a difficult time promoting the new album due to constant changes in its line-up. Draconic retreated back into silence once again in the fall of 2009 and have not played live since. The band is currently recording a new single entitled "Hospitals" that is expected to be released independently by the end of July 2011. The new single is expected to feature new band members and a new sound that is both more aggressive and complex at the same time. The band's now only guitarist, Vanja Dusan Andrijasevic, is playing an eight-string custom guitar created for him by local luthier Dalibor Vucic, who owns an operates the small custom bass and guitar company Wood Guerilla.
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Latest revision as of 17:29, 19 May 2021
The Serbian metal band Draconic began in 2003 as a project of keyboardist Branislav Stankovic, who with the help of studio musicians from some of Serbia’s most prominent metal bands, recorded an album entitled "Conflux."
