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Nocturnal Fog are a two-piece raw black thrash outfit built around Oldskull on vocals, guitar, and bass, and drummer Deathhammer, debuting with the 2014 EP Manifestation of the Essence before delivering the 2017 cassette Nocturnal Ritual — five tracks of speed-driven riffing and barked vocals recorded with characteristic lo-fi grit. The band also contributed to a 2015 tribute to Quorthon, signaling the direct first-wave Bathory influence that runs through their sound.
Nocturnal Force channel early blackened thrash with an occult edge across three releases — A Touch of Evil (2016), Invocation of Morbid Power (2017), and The Kingdom of Hatred (2023) — the last a seven-track self-release featuring songs like "Forças de Satã (Guerras Profanas)" and "Cryptic Invocation." The band is primarily the work of Nahemoth on vocals, drums, and guitars, with Kellaborn contributing bass.
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 Graves is a blackened thrash and death metal band from Victoria, Australia, formed in 2004. The band released demos in their formation year before issuing the Necromancer 7-inch in 2006 and their cult debut full-length Satan's Cross in 2007, a record that immediately earned them recognition within the extreme metal underground for its raw, uncompromising ferocity. After a hiatus between 2010 and 2012, the band resumed activity and signed to Season of Mist Underground Activists, continuing to release material into the 2020s.
Nocturnal Hate is a black metal band founded in mid-2017 in Sincelejo, Colombia by vocalist Macabre and drummer Alzagorath. The band explores themes of darkness, Satanism, rituals, and paganism, releasing their debut demo Hate in 2023 through Mortecina Records. They remain an active independent act based in the Sucre department of northern Colombia.
Nocturnal Hate is a black metal band founded in mid-2017 in Sincelejo, Colombia by vocalist Macabre and drummer Alzagorath. The band explores themes of darkness, Satanism, rituals, and paganism, releasing their debut demo Hate in 2023 through Mortecina Records. They remain an active independent act based in the Sucre department of northern Colombia.
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