The dram group released a new album called "Oštro", which you can listen to on all streaming services at the link
"Oštro" is the band's third studio album, and the first to be released by Kontra Rights. The album contains 10 new songs and was recently announced by the single "Beograd", which the band presented in a slightly harder light than we are used to. In addition to digital services, a vinyl release of the album is also planned in the spring. The author of the "Oštro" album cover is Nina Bunjevac.
We wrote Belgrade during the summer of 2024 in the studio in the "Jugošped" building, where we lived for about 10 days and made rough sketches of all the songs from the third album. We switched from a soft sound to a harder one, the drum is now more of a rock band than ever before, the guitars have become the center of the world. Marko has completely switched from keyboards to guitars, Gro and Pera are wild and wild on drums and bass, Stefan is next to the guitar, strumming and singing to the heart. The change was natural, we sounded hard live and we wanted to be like that on tape, without foiling and beautification. Just as there were no compromises with the sound and genre, there were no compromises with the texts and themes either, we wrote from the first person, the way we feel and think. The third album "Oštro" is the identity card of this band, it shows all our faces,' the band members say about the new album.
dram, photo: Bojan Batar
Speaking about the single "Belgrade", the band members add: "The new single "Belgrade" is everything that hurts us intensely. Our city has long been turned into a construction site, symbols of the city have been scrapped, such as the Old Sava Bridge, while the Bigza building, once a meeting place for artists, has become just a business space. We escaped from "BIGZ" to "Jugošped", however that building was swallowed up by the infamous "Belgrade on the Water". The places in Belgrade that we spent, visited and above all loved no longer exist. This is a song about that, but despite everything, we stay, resist and fight for our city'.
Direction and camera of the (excellent) video: Ole Villwock, editing: Milan Subotić Igla, color correction: Dom Hofer
Dram is an indie rock band from Belgrade, and debuted on the scene with the album "Nećemo promeniti svet'" in December 2019. It is better known as a band that turns concerts into dance parties.
The combination created from the flirtation of powerful guitar sequences, watery retro synth phrases and three boys' vocals that lie over bombastic bass and drum sections, sets Dram apart as one of the most interesting new young groups in Serbia. The band played live at festivals such as Exit, Arsenal Fest, Belgrade Beer Fest, Zagreb Beer Fest, Beat na Moru and as the opening act for Momčil Bajagić Bajaga at his biggest concert in Belgrade in 2024.
For the single "Daj mi sve", the band won the prestigious "Milan Mladenović" award in September 2020, from the Milan Mladenović Foundation, for a work of exceptional artistic value.
In September 2022, the band will release a second studio album called "Previše svega" (Too much of everything), a collection of 11 of the most pathetic, anxious-immature and dance-depressive pop songs about the charms and fears of youth.
At the moment, dram is a rock and roll band more than ever before, led by guitars that overwhelmed and redefined the band's sound as heralded by the singles "U ovoj sobi", "Vanja" and the banned "Vazduh miriše na ludilo".
dram are: Stefan Aćimović (vocals, guitar), Marko Arizanović (keyboards, guitar, backing vocals), Nikola Grozdanić (drums, electronics) and Petar Blagojević (bass, backing vocals).
