Nocturnalia
| Nocturnalia | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Linkoping , Sweden |
| Genre (s) | Hard rock , stoner rock , psychedelic rock |
| founding | 2011 as Nocturnal |
| Current occupation | |
| Dennis Skoglund | |
| Linus Ekermo | |
| Martin Ericsson | |
| Kalle Svensson | |
Electric guitar |
Linus Lundgren |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Kalle Elfvin |
Nocturnalia is a Swedish stoner , hard and psychedelic rock band from Linköping , which was founded in 2011 under the name Nocturnal .
history
The founding of the band goes back to the end of 2011, when the guitarist Kalle Elfvin and the drummer Dennis Skoglund wrote the first songs together, from which the single Until the Morning Light developed. The band was still called Nocturnal here. After another single under the name Night Rainbow , the self-titled debut album followed in 2013 on the local Gaphals Records label . After appearances in Europe and several line-up changes, the second album Above Below Within followed on Gaphals Records in March 2015 . Linus Lundgren was then added as the second guitarist, although the band had now changed their name to Nocturnalia. Then the members took a break and devoted themselves to other projects. In early 2018 they began writing new material, which was released on The Sign Records as an album under the name III: Winter in November 2019 .
style
Thomas Kupfer from Rock Hard wrote in his review of Nocturnal that the band played stoner, hard and psychedelic rock in the style of the 1970s. The group is not "the next big thing in retro- rock ", but they deliver solid craft. In a later issue, Kupfer reviewed Above Below Within and assigned it to Psychedelic Rock. The song structures are easy to understand, while the singing has an independent, sometimes accusatory character. The music has tonal similarities to Blue Öyster Cult , with the songs being kept in a retro style. Thorsten Dörting from the same magazine said to III: Winter that this is "a collection of kitschless warm-hearted cold-time songs". There is a subtle melancholy , whereby musically it is "mother earth connected" hard rock, which has been provided with "forgotten song passages" and "psychedelic borrowings". The group bowed "to the spirit of folk , without ever aping folk". Musically, but not in terms of image, the band is comparable to The Devil's Blood , Hexvessel and Wishbone Ash . One issue later, Andreas Schiffmann compared the Albu with Novis Orbis Terrarum Ordinis from Year of the Goat . In an interview with him, Dennis Skoglund stated that the album is thematically about the winter in Northern Europe, both "in a figurative, philosophical sense and literally materially". The album is about "life and death, standstill and darkness, snow and the longing for the days to get longer again". The lyrics would be by Linus Ekermo. Angela from Metal.de also reviewed the album and found indefinable rock, which now and then shows southern rock elements. The band tries to " capture the gloom of the Scandinavian winter", but hardly any song is "really dark, melancholy or in any other way sweeping". Characteristic are the "monotonous rhythms, which are almost the same in all pieces, and [the] guitars and vocals that are just as uniform".
Discography
As a nocturnal
- 2012: Until the Morning Light (Single, Gaphals Records )
- 2013: Night Rainbow (single, Gaphals Records)
- 2013: Nocturnal (album, Gaphals Records)
As a nocturnalia
- 2015: Above Below Within (Album, Gaphals Records)
- 2019: III: Winter (Album, The Sign Records )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Info. Facebook , accessed June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c NOCTURNALIA. metalmusicarchives.com, accessed June 3, 2020 .
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Nocturnal . Nocturnal. In: Rock Hard . No. 312 , May 2013.
- ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Nocturnalia . Above Below Within. In: Rock Hard . No. 335 , April 2015.
- ↑ Thorsten Dörting: Nocturnalia . III: winter. In: Rock Hard . No. 391 , December 2019, p. 103 .
- ^ Andreas Schiffmann: Nocturnalia . Spring wishes. In: Rock Hard . No. 392 , January 2020, p. 76 .
- ↑ Angela: Nocturnalia - III: Winter. Metal.de , accessed on June 27, 2020 .