Denis Stoff (Ex Asking Alexandria, Down & Dirty, & Make Me Famous) posted on Twitter on 27 September 2017 "New album and new band... so worth every minute of the work and da wait we've already invested in this. Be ready for something new and FRESH. His new band named "Drag Me Out" Consisted Of The Lead Vocalist Denis Stoff Himself, Guitarist Stas Belove (Ex Down & Dirty & At The Ruins), Bassist Easy Target, & Drummer Chris Nokia (Ex Down & Dirty)
they released their first single, titled I'm Sorry, on 15 January 2019. An accompanying music video was also released. On 1 February 2019, the band surprise dropped their debut album Pressure. Shortly after the album's release, connections were made between Drag Me Out's "Hollow" and Asking Alexandria's "Alone in a Room" sounding similar in terms of instruments and the bridge section of the song, afterwards the band's label Sumerian Records (who at the time, were also Asking Alexandria's label) took down the song from their official YouTube channel. On 14 July 2019 Easy Target announced on his personal Instagram that he had left the band, later Kiryll Medvedev (Ex Down & Dirty) would replace him as Bassist Of Drag Me Out (Kiryll Also Does Backing Vocals) that meant that every single Current Member Of Drag Me Out at that point was a Ex Down & Dirty Member
On 30 October 2020, Drag Me Out released a new single "The Watch of the Buried" and its corresponding lyric video. It was revealed on 11 December 2020 that the artwork for this single was plagiarized from an artist named Maxime Taccardia. The artist claims that neither Denis nor the band reached out to him for permission. Denis posted on his social medias about how they would reach out to said artist to discuss how to properly settle this case, claiming that the artwork was sold by a third party artist, who was never disclosed. Since then, the lyric video for the single had been taken down and the artwork had been removed from iTunes. Sumerian Records has since re-uploaded the song with no lyric video or artwork to YouTube.
Denis has also announced that these allegations will not impact the upcoming album that Drag Me Out is working on. Denis has said on multiple occasions (mostly on Instagram stories and other methods that disappear after 24 hours) that this album is going to be a two part album that'll be released throughout 2021. One half will being going back to metalcore roots, the other half will be experimental. Drag Me Out Split with Sumerian Records In 2021, they later unveiled that they would go independed with Stoff his own Record Company Lödereih (Also Known As Lödereih Music), Drag Me Out unveiled their new album Demons Away on 26 August, the album was delayed initially from its original release date (6 May 2022) Because of the war in Ukraine where Denis & Chris are from. The album reportedly is a trilogy consisting of three parts. The 1st part being "Demons Away"
In 2023 Felipe Elioenay joined Drag Me Out & replaced Lead Guitarist Stas Belove, now the band wasn't completely former Down & Dirty Members anymore.