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Nocturnal Exorcism is a Finnish black metal band from Vantaa that emerged in 2024 with releases including the albums Penumbra and I. Their music channels the raw intensity and atmospheric darkness characteristic of Finland's deep black metal underground.
Nocturnal Fiend is a Lithuanian black metal project active since 2016. They haunt the Baltic night with their dark, atmospheric sound.
Nocturnal Flame is a black metal project from Cosio Valtellino in the Sondrio province, Italy, formed in 2023. They ignite darkness from the Alpine valleys of upper Lombardy.
Nocturnal Frost is a black metal project from Lodi, Italy, active since 2019. They deliver cold, bitter black metal from the Lombardy lowlands.
Nocturnal Funeral is an Italian black metal project active since 2014. They conduct midnight rites through somber, atmospheric black metal.
Emerging from New England in 2024, Nocturnal Gatherer is one of the newer voices in American black metal, drawing on the atmospheric cold of the northeastern landscape. The project channels raw, unadorned black metal in the tradition of the region's long history of isolated, woodsy darkness. Still very early in their existence, the band hints at a sound rooted in grimness and introspection rather than spectacle.
Nocturnal Grace is a black/symphonic metal band from Sarno near Salerno, Italy, active since 2015. They pair orchestral elegance with black metal darkness from the Campanian hinterland.
Nocturnal Hell is a black/thrash metal band from Pontevedra in Galicia, active since 2008. The band has delivered nearly two decades of blackened thrash fury from the Rias Baixas coast of northwestern Spain.
Nocturnal Misanthropy is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2019. The project channels misanthropic fury through raw black metal from the capital of southern France.
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