A young band that is shouting towards us with their self financed cd that they are "Still Fighting". Fighting to spread their music, fighting to spread their message. So, we give them the step to introduce themselves...

1.FIRST OF ALL, GIVE US A SHORT BAND BIO AND TELL US WHICH IS THE CURRENT LINE UP. WHO ARE THE FOUNDERS?

• DREAGGAN have been formed in August 1998 by Thomas LOMBARD (guitars) and me, Aurelien LOMBARD (bass and vocals). A couple of weeks after, our cousin Julien CHATEAU joined us at the drums. In December 1999 we released a first demo CD called "BACK TO METAL". This first CD was pure Heavy Metal and nowadays our fans still ask for more songs from BACK TO METAL in our shows. In November 2001, after many shows, we released our second demo CD : "STILL FIGHTING" which is more aggressive than the previous one. Just after the release of this second CD, I decided to focus myself on the vocals and Nicolas SEYVES joined us at the bass guitar. Now we’ve got the perfect line up to burn up the stage!

• DREAGGAN is definitively not a French word. It’s just a name we created. We decided to take this name cause it sounds aggressive. One day, we learned that it was a Serbian name. But our Metal band hasn’t got any link with Serbian wars.

• As I said to you, we are actually a quartet (guitar, bass, drums and vocals). We don’t want a keyboard player cause we don’t need such an instrument in our band. Our music is raw, a keyboard player would not find his place in our band. We also don’t want a second guitar player cause we think that Thomas makes a good job and he doesn’t need another useless guy. Furthermore, we don’t want some guitar competition in DREAGGAN. During the recording of STILL FIGHTING, we called many friends to take part in our music. DREAGGAN is a band made of friends and we like to share our music with other friends. I think that there will always be some friends in our CD’s.

• Our CD is self financed cause we didn’t have the choice. Nowadays, labels don’t want to finance the production of young underground Metal bands. What they want is a real album ready for distribution. For the moment, we don’t have enough money to produce a real album by ourselves. So we produce some professional quality demo CD in order to make ourselves known in the Metal scene and to find as many gigs as we can. Furthermore, we want to do things step by step. We don’t want to lose our money in a useless bad first album. We are still satisfied with all our songs, they are part of our history and each fan has his preferred song. The one thing we could improve (and we have to improve) is the quality of our sound on our records. Maybe we didn’t have enough experience in the past in order to guide our sound engineers.

• You now, the French Metal scene in not really exciting. There are very few famous French Metal bands and they don’t find enough metalheads in France to support their fight. So they try to make themselves known in foreign countries like Germany or Japan. France is not a Metal nation. Here the only metal bands that run are the old monsters like IRON MAIDEN  or METALLICA and the young nu Metal bands like KORN or SLIPKNOT. There is no place for the others.

• Oh, I guess you want to speak about DIE BASTARD DIE lyrics. Yes, these lyrics are full of anger. When I wrote it, I wanted to show that some guys use satanic lyrics in order to mask their fascist side. It's very dangerous cause these guys are followed by a huge number of young people who just look for provocation. These bands are just some cowards cause it’s really easy to loath at the Catholics. A priest will never give you a punch in your head. Laughing at a more powerful enemy is another story.

• We have got some good feedback till now. The fans are happy and the new songs are running well on stage. The common things in all the reviews are that we have some good intros, some good solo and an original voice. But I’m not the judge and I let you say what you think of our music.

• Yes, we like to play live. Each DREAGGAN’s song is made to be played live. I think that if you wanna know what is really DREAGGAN, you need to see one of our shows. Till now we performed roughly 30 live shows. For the moment we performed only one concert in a foreign country. It was in Belgium at Bruxelles. We were the head of the show ant it was a fucking great night. My best memory is our participation to a French live music competition. We were the only Metal band and we knew that the judges would never give us the victory. So we played like demons and we performed one of our best concert.

• The best part in our music is the composition. I deeply believe that we’ve got some well build up songs. The worst part is the sound. We need to improve its quality and we are working hard to offer a third CD with a fucking sound to our fans.

• You are bored by all these fucking joyful true metal. You want anger, rage and fury. You want raw power. So listen to our last CD : STILL FIGHTING. This one is made for you.

• Sex, money and recognition, for sure.

• You know, we don’t take care of all these shit. We play the music we like, the music our fans like. We enjoy playing it live and having parties with our fans. That is important.

• Oh I’m not God you know and there are so many things to change. But I think that giving a job and a home to each person would be a good first step.

• Hum, it’s a very hard question, cause all historical periods are full of wars and pain. I think that the period we live is the longest peaceful period ever known in Europe. So I don’t want to visit another historical period.

• Title: I let you give a name to this interview. I thing you’ll do a better job than me!

• I hope you will have the chance to listen to one of our songs in Greece. DREAGGAN salutes you Greek Metal Warriors!