With their mixture of furious Nordic Black Metal with captivating melodies and acoustic elements on their 2000 demo "Unter dem Banner der Nordwinde," Drautran set standards not only in Germany. This band from Kiel was founded in 1996 and sets the primal forces of Nature to music, an approach not unlike that of the early works of Emperor or Enslaved. With the references to their Northern German home marked by the rough sea, they manage to bring out their own strengths. The album "Throne Of The Depths," an enquiry into existence and death with mythological references that makes your skin crawl, has long since become a classic of Pagan music alongside the standard works by bands such as Helrunar or Nagelfar.