Drakkar
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Drakkar may refer to:
- Drekar, a Viking longship
- Drakkar EntertainmentDrakkar EntertainmentDrakkar Entertainment GmbH, also called Drakkar Records or Drakkar Publishing, is a German record label with its headquarters in Witten. It is a joint venture with Bertelsmann Music Group.-History:...
- Drakkar ProductionsDrakkar ProductionsDrakkar Productions is a French record label that has released many recordings of black metal bands throughout the world, on CD, cassette and vinyl. They have usually limited the prints to 1000 copies or less, but some have been known to vary...
, a French underground black metalBlack metalBlack metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....
label - Baie-Comeau DrakkarBaie-Comeau DrakkarThe Baie-Comeau Drakkar are a junior ice hockey team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. They play at Centre Henry-Leonard in Baie-Comeau, Quebec, Canada. Their franchise was granted for the 1997–98 season.-History:...
, a junior hockey team - Drakkar, an Italian power metal band
- Drakkar NoirDrakkar Noir-Marketing:In 1993 Guy Laroche offered a promotional CD titled "Best of Rock" with every purchase of Drakkar Noir. The CD featured tracks by Jimi Hendrix, Rod Stewart and others. -Cultural References:...
or Drakkar Dynamic, lines of men's colognePerfumePerfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and/or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces "a pleasant scent"...
marketed by Guy LarocheGuy LarocheGuy Laroche was a French fashion designer and founder of the eponymous company.Laroche began his career in millinery and, from 1949, Laroche worked for Jean Desses and eventually became his assistant. In 1955, he visited the US to investigate new ready-to-wear manufacturing methods...
. - Drakkar, the name of the building in which 58 French paratroopers were killed in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing1983 Beirut barracks bombingThe Beirut Barracks Bombing occurred during the Lebanese Civil War, when two truck bombs struck separate buildings housing United States and French military forces—members of the Multinational Force in Lebanon—killing 299 American and French servicemen...
. - Drakkar, one of the three Ancient Dragons in Guild WarsGuild WarsGuild Wars is an episodic series of online 3D fantasy role-playing games developed by ArenaNet and published by NCsoft. Although often defined as an MMORPG the developers define it as a CORPG due to significant differences from the MMORPG genre. It provides two main modes of gameplay—a cooperative...
, Eye of the North.