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Nocturnal I is a doom/death metal project from Osnabruck, formed in 2025. The project brings glacial doom-death to the northern German city near the Dutch border.
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.
Tennessee's Nocturnal Mischief lean into the deliberately crude end of raw black metal, embracing noise and ugliness as aesthetic values rather than flaws to be corrected. Formed in 2022, the project has the irreverent energy suggested by its name — a kind of gleeful malice that gives raw black metal a chaotic, unpredictable quality. Their approach places them alongside the American USBM underground that prizes atmosphere and attitude over technical execution.
Nocturnal Nightmare is a depressive black metal project from Aneby, Sweden, formed in 2020. The project explores the darkest emotional depths through bleak, harrowing depressive black metal from rural Småland.
Nocturnal Obeisance is a black metal project from Zlin in eastern Moravia, active since 2020. The project pays homage to the night through ceremonial black metal from the shoe-manufacturing capital of the Czech Republic.
Nocturnal Pestilence is a symphonic epic black metal band from Prague, active since 2016. The project fuses orchestral grandeur with epic black metal storytelling from the Gothic spires of the Czech capital.
Nocturnal Premonition is a black metal project from Kungsbacka, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the Halland coast south of Gothenburg.
Nocturnal Reaper is a black/speed metal and hardcore band from London, UK, formed in 2024. Their sound fuses the velocity of speed metal and black metal with hardcore's raw aggression.
Nocturnal Rites is a Swedish power metal band from Umeå, formed in 1990 under the name Necronomic as a death metal outfit before gradually shifting toward melodic power metal across their early releases. Their first album In a Time of Blood and Fire (1995) signaled the transition, and they developed into a respected melodic power metal act across nine studio albums, including Grand Illusion (2006) and The 8th Sin (2007). The band entered an indefinite hiatus in 2018, returning only for a final studio album, Phoenix (2017), before going quiet.
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