Drottnar are a Norwegian extreme metal band founded by three siblings whose sound has evolved from a hybrid of death-doom, folk, and Viking metal roots in the 1990s to bridging the subgenres of technical, progressive, and black metal. Known for their blistering-fast attack, unhinged vocals (courtesy of vocalist/guitarist Karl-Fredrik Lind), and on-stage proto-military costumes that suggest, alternately, Soviet-era Eastern European military uniforms (to mock Nazi and Communist ideologies) and stylistic props from the era, they have always been provocative. Far from the mainstre...