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Noctura is a death/black metal band from Wurzburg in Lower Franconia, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal darkness from the baroque university city on the Main.
Nocturn is a black metal project from Barcelona, active since 2018. The project delivers nocturnal black metal from the cosmopolitan Catalan capital.
Nocturn Decadence is a black metal project from Osorno, Los Lagos, active since 2016, blending raw black metal with blackgaze and dark ambient textures around themes of loneliness, nature, and existential contempt. The band self-released two albums independently: Impavida Muerte in March 2017 and Sirviente del Psicodelico Lenguaje Inconexo in 2018.
Nocturnal Abyss is a black metal project from Brunna, Sweden, active since 2013. The project has spent over a decade creating dark, underground black metal from the Stockholm area.
Houston's Nocturnal Avernus have cultivated a grim presence in the Texas underground since forming in 2008, weaving cold atmospheric black metal from a city better known for its death metal heritage. Their approach leans into darkness and dissonance, standing as one of Houston's more determined black metal voices amid a scene dominated by heavier and denser sounds. Over more than fifteen years of activity, the band has remained resolutely committed to the raw traditions of the genre.
Nocturnal Blasphemies is a black metal project from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2021. The project channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Nocturnal Chalice is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2016. The band delivers raw black metal darkness from Scotland's largest city.
A brand-new black metal entity out of Oklahoma, Nocturnal Corruptor arrived in 2026 with an intent to corrupt and defile that's embedded right in the name. Oklahoma's underground metal scene is small but quietly determined, and this project slots into that tradition with a focus on orthodox black metal hostility. Still in their earliest stages, the band represents a fresh eruption of darkness from the southern plains.
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