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Nocturnal Winter operate in the most obscure tier of the northeast underground, playing raw corpse-painted black metal with no concession to modernization. The band released two full-lengths — Shaitan a Face da Revelação Iniciática in 2004 and Sadomarsonáculo in 2008 — and have maintained a near-invisible profile outside of dedicated Brazilian extreme metal circles ever since.
Nocturnal Witch is a black/thrash metal band from Neustadt an der Orla in Thuringia, active since 2014. The band casts blackened thrash spells from the eastern German countryside.
Frigid Black Metal from Dallas.
Nocturnal Wrath is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Tula, Russia, active since 2003. Over two decades, they have evolved through black, death, doom, and industrial metal influences.
Nocturnalmorg is a depressive black metal project from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2014. They channel Siberian despair through the bleakest shades of DSBM.
Chicago's Nocturne arrived in 2021, adding another entry to the city's longstanding underground black metal tradition that stretches back through decades of midwestern grime and cold. Operating under a name borrowed from the classical nocturne — a form associated with night and quiet introspection — the band brings those dualities to black metal's confrontational noise. Chicago's dense urban landscape and brutal winters make for a fitting backdrop for their particular shade of darkness.
Nocturne Wulf is a heavy/thrash metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2019. Their sound blends traditional heavy metal power with thrash metal velocity from the west of Scotland.
Nocturnis is a black metal project from Offenburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2020. The project channels nocturnal black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Nocturnity is a symphonic gothic/black metal band from Sweden, active since 1999. One of the longer-running acts in Swedish gothic-tinged extreme metal, the band blends symphonic grandeur with black metal intensity.
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