After Dutch symphonic metallers STREAM OF PASSION ended their eleven-year career in late 2016 with one final show, guitar player Eric Hazebroek decided to transform his plans for a possible solo album into a full-blown band. Together with Marjan Welman (vocals; also of AUTUMN), Douwe De Wilde (bass; ex-THE SATURNINE), and Jim Van De Kerkhof (drums; ex-ALL FOR NOTHING), he formed the melancholic metal band VETRAR DRAUGURINN.

VETRAR DRAUGURINN is the vehicle of Hazebroek's songwriting. On March 30, the band will release a four-song EP, titled "I", as a form of introduction. The material showcases the diversity and melancholy of the band, featuring everything from heavy, doomy and eight-string-guitar-driven tracks to fragile and delicate sorrow-drenched atmospheric songs.