Nocturnal Mortum
| Nocturnal Mortum | |
|---|---|
 Nokturnal Mortum (2015) |
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| General information | |
| Genre (s) | NSBM , Pagan Metal |
| founding | 1991 as suppuration |
| Website | http://www.nokturnal-mortum.com/ |
| Founding members | |
| Knjaz Varggoth | |
| Munruthel | |
| Xaarquath (1991-2002) | |
| Current occupation | |
Vocals, electric guitar |
Knjaz Varggoth |
Drums |
Bairoth (since 2009) |
bass |
Rutnar (since 2014) |
Guitar, vocals |
Jurgis (2014-2019) |
Keyboards |
Hoyzt (since 2017) |
| former members | |
Electric guitar |
Edward Pichugin (1992-1993) |
Vocals, keyboard |
Sataroth |
Electric guitar |
Wortherax (1993–1996) |
Electric guitar |
Karpath (1993-1994, 1996-1999) |
Electric guitar |
Alzeth (2002-2007) |
Drums |
Odalv (2003-2009) |
Electric bass (until 2002 electric guitar) |
Vrolok (2000-2011) |
| Saturious (1996-2014) | |
Electric guitar |
Astargh (2007-2011) |
| Former session members | |
Drums |
Istukan (2000) |
Drums |
Khaoth (2000) |
Nokturnal Mortum is a black / pagan metal band from Ukraine . The albums NeChrist , The Taste of Victory and Weltanschauung are assigned to the National Socialist spectrum of Black Metal .
Band history
The band was founded on December 31, 1991 by Knjaz Varggoth (vocals / guitar), Munruthel (drums) and Xaarquath (bass) as a death metal band under the name Suppuration in Kharkiv . Knjaz Varggoth left his previous band Leprosy that same month. The band played the demo Ecclesiastical Blasphemy in the St. Maybe Soundfactory in 1992, which was distributed by the Belgian label Shiver Records. In 1993, Suppuration was dissolved, Knjaz Varggoth and Munruthel continued with Karpath as Crystaline Darkness and recorded the demo Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto . In 1994 Knjaz Varggoth and Munruthel left Crystaline Darkness, formed with all members of Suppuration Nocturnal Mortum and recorded the Twilightfall demo, but the original recordings were lost. In 1995 the C in the band name was replaced by a K in order to rule out any possible identity, and the demo was re-recorded.
In 1996 Crystaline Darkness broke up, Karpath joined Nokturnal Mortum as guitarist. With their album Goat Horns , released in 1997 on MetalAgen Records , the group also made their breakthrough in western countries. In January 1998 The End Records signed the group. With To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire (1999) the music became heavier, more chaotic and less keyboard-heavy. The band's first albums were released via The End Records and as license pressings via Nuclear Blast .
2000 Munruthel was temporarily released from the band; During this time Istukan (Dub Buk) and Khaoth ( Hate Forest , Khors, Astrofaes, Tessaract) helped out as drummers. In the same year the album Нехристь was released ; after its release and the re-release of the demo Lunar Poetry , The End Records separated from the band because of the neo-Nazi sentiments. Nevertheless, the label released the song Night Before the Fight in 2007 on the compilation The Dark Psyche: An Aural Exhibition of Black Metal from Top Scholars in the Genre .
In 2001 the band members concentrated more on their side projects Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, Munruthel and Finist. Nokturnal Mortum recorded only one song of their own , besides a Graveland and a Burzum cover. In 2002, in addition to his previous solo side project Mistigo Varggoth Darkestra, Varggoth founded another music project called Aryan Terrorism, whose orientation was openly neo-Nazi. Varggoth also took part in recordings by the Russian pagan metal band Temnozor together with other right-wing extremist musicians . Knjaz Varggoth, Munruthel and Saturious were also members of the Polish pagan folk band Piorun.
At the end of 2009, the Nokturnal Mortum album The Voice of Steel was released under the original title Голос Сталі on Knjaz Varggoth's own label Oriana Music. An LP version is to appear via Osmose Productions , where in 2012 the other releases are also to be reissued on vinyl. On Golos Stali , the band's music became more epic and elements progressive / hard rock and blues were added to the sound. From now on, the band renounced explicitly National Socialist themes. B. on the song Ukraina , however, there are still nationalistic undertones. In 2016 Nokturnal Mortum released a split CD with the right-wing extremist music group Graveland .
Work on the album Istina (Truth), which was released in 2017, lasted four years . Due to the conflict in Ukraine and the departure of some musicians, including the long-time multi-instrumentalist Satorious, the completion of the album was delayed. A total of seven guest musicians contributed to the traditional instruments. Istina was received less enthusiastically than its predecessor, the band is accused of increasing commercialization.
Music genre
By mixing traditional Ukrainian instruments with black metal influences, the band with the album Goat Horns achieved numerous positive reviews and a fairly high level of awareness within the black metal scene. The songs are complex and the melodies are carried by two keyboards ; the music on Goat Horns is reminiscent of the style of bands such as Emperor , Cradle of Filth or Dimmu Borgir, which had already become popular at the time , and was also “touted as 'the Ukrainian answer to Dimmu Borgir'”, but is more aggressive than on contemporary albums by these bands. The keyboard-based intro Black Moon Overture is based on classical music , whereby Robert Müller from Metal Hammer is of the opinion that the use of two keyboard players "creates tense nerves, especially during the sticky 'Black Moon Overture'". Songs like Goat Horns or Kolyada combine church bells, the howl of the wind, acoustic guitar parts and extreme metal with traditional Ukrainian folk music.
On the follow-up, To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire , the band oriented itself towards "raw, brute old-school Black Metal"; the music "gets to the point a lot more and has clearly increased in manic intensity due to the coarse speed". The style is reminiscent of “old Emperor, and in a very pleasant way. Unfortunately, the sound of this CD is a bit mushy, which means that some details of the majestic arrangements and, above all, much of the spiritual aura of this music are distorted and [sic!] Inaccessible. ”With Нехристь or NeChrist “ there is the ironic situation that Ukrainians as Band for everyone who doesn't have to portray Dimmu Borgir as true Black Metal. Dark rattling, cacophone pounding, with majestic keyboards that rise from the clink like on the oldest Emperor recordings, they drill their way into the regions of the scene where their chances are greatest: the pure underground. This includes a clear rejection of the international leveling of music, Nokturnal Mortum sing a large part of their songs in Russian and, with the help of a folklore ensemble, bring a lot of this peculiarly melancholy, wild Slavic atmosphere into play, ”and in contrast to Dimmu Borgir, that offers that Album "not a polished, powerful production". The traditional instruments became more and more important in the band's music. On the album Weltanschauung or Мировоззрение the band Pagan Metal plays in an Eastern European style that differs strongly from Scandinavian and integrates traditional instruments into the music even more than before. On the album The Voice of Steel or Голос Сталі the band mixes "their original Pagan Metal with symphonic bombast and progressive tendencies".
ideology
In the beginning the band called their music "Lunar Black Metal" and called for the killing of Christians, the destruction of their churches and the return to the gods of their fathers and called Jesus Christ a "crucified ' hippie ' " in the cover insert of Lunar Poetry ": " This message is adressed to all people who really believe that Christianism have [sic!] To be destroyed, who want to live without false and hypocrisy, who are eager to learn the eternity, who want to turn theirs souls to the belief of our father-gods. [...] We want to see the sky colored in red by total purifying fire. Millions of stupid idiots are swallowing the maggots of the crucified 'hippy'. [...] Poor creatures of their own imagination speaks about eternal soul don't paying [sic!] Any attention to the fact that their souls are currently dead. [...] Wolves! Your destiny is in your hands. Cross-loving winbs [sic!] Have to be killed, their churches destroyed, this age have [sic!] To be burned on a separate cultural bonfire. By the name of our ancient gods, spirits of the nature and mystic eternity we bless you! "
Starting with the EP Marble Moon , the band showed an openly National Socialist sentiment, which was shown in swastikas in the band's logo and on To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire in the image of an SS skull, a Celtic cross and the note “NOKTURNAL MORTUM & KOLOVRAT PRODUCTIONS is a proud member of THE PAGAN FRONT ”. From the album Нехристь or NeChrist , this was also evident in texts such as The Call of Aryan Spirit . In interviews, at performances and on their website, the band showed their convictions openly and described their music as “ pagan Aryan NSBM ”. Statements and texts show clear influences of neo- folk and neo-pagan ideas and on some albums a tendency towards thoughts of ariosophy or an emphasis on the population of cultural Europe as Aryans. In 2008, the band's singer and guitarist, Knjaz Varggoth, claimed he had no interest in political currents and had never viewed Nokturnal Mortum as a political band; However, his ideology and the lyrics of the 2005 album Weltanschauung are influenced by the writings of the " esoteric Hitlerist" and Holocaust denier Miguel Serrano . In addition, the band portrayed World War II in the song The Taste of Victory as a fratricidal war among the peoples of Europe fueled by a Jewish conspiracy :
“Though it's your brother stands on other side still it's time to fullfill the orders to kill
The beast thirsts for Aryan blood squeezing down his greedy claws
With a stolen power he forces brothers to whet against each other
By slyness the blood has been spilled pride has been forgotten and defamed
But the memory still lives in our hearts […]
What incited Germans to go against slavs who made Russia to rot Ukraine
Who sucked power from the world like a vampire who feels himself a master today
[…]
Towers have fallen but the persons do stand firm and the Mason's pyramides do stare into our souls
The taste of victory is bitterness and sarcasm
It's price was Shekel and their scourge upon our trampled backs
Oh world beware new master this desert breed won't die on their own
If they weren't burnt those 60 years ago they should be burnt today ”
"Although it is your brother who is on the other side, it is time to obey the order to kill.
The beast thirsts for Aryan blood, presses down its greedy claws.
With stolen power it forces brothers to fight each other.
Cunning is that." Blood has been shed, pride has been forgotten and defamed
But the memory still lives in our hearts [...]
What prompted Germans to attack Slavs? Who let Russia exterminate Ukraine?
Who sucked power from the world like a vampire? Who feels like a master today?
[...]
towers have fallen, but the people are fixed and the pyramids of Maurer rigid in our souls
The taste of victory is bitterness and sarcasm
Its price was shekels and their scourge on our trampled back
Oh world, beware, this desert breed is not die by themselves
If they hadn't been burned 60 years ago , they would have to be burned now "
In addition, Nokturnal Mortum was a member of the Pagan Front, a worldwide association of neo-Nazi black and pagan metal bands, until 2008 .
Discography
- 1992: Ecclesiastical Blasphemy ( Demo ), as Suppuration
- 1993: Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto (demo), as Crystaline Darkness
- 1995: Twilightfall (demo)
- 1995: Black Clouds over Slavonic Lands (Demo)
- 1996: Lunar Poetry (Demo, MetalAgen Records)
- 1996: Path of the Wolf / Return of the Vampire Lord ( split demo with Lucifugum , MetalAgen Records)
- 1997: Return of the Vampire Lord ( EP )
- 1997: Marble Moon (EP)
- 1997: Goat Horns (MetalAgen Records)
- 1998: To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire (Oriana Productions)
- 1999: Нехристь (Oriana Productions; published in 2000 under the title NeChrist on The End Records and Last Episode )
- 2004: The Taste of Victory (EP, Oriana Productions)
- 2004: Eleven Years Among the Sheep (Best-of, UnHoly Records)
- 2005: Weltanschauung ( No Colors Records ; with Russian instead of English texts under the title Мировоззрение published by Oriana Productions) (indexed)
- 2006: Thurisaz on Chronicles of Tyranny & Blood - A Tribute to Graveland (Totenkopf Propaganda)
- 2007: Eastern Hammer (split with Graveland , North and Temnozor , Hammerbolt Productions; published in 2008 by Stellar Winter Records under the title Молот Восточной Европы )
- 2009: Live in Katowice (Live-CD / -DVD, No Colors Records)
- 2009: Голос Сталі (Oriana Productions)
- 2016: The Spirit Never Dies (split with Graveland , published by Heritage Recordings)
- 2017: Істина (Oriana Productions)
Individual evidence
- ↑ NOKTURNAL MORTUM - BIOGRAPHY. Retrieved January 28, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b c NOKTURNAL MORTUM on MySpace. Retrieved January 28, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b Sonia: firegoat.com: Interviews (Nokturnal Mortum). November 1, 2001, accessed January 28, 2010 .
- ^ Aaron McKay: CoC: The End Records: Interview. August 12, 2001, accessed January 28, 2010 .
- ↑ LATEST NEWS .
- ↑ Nokturnal Mortum - The Voice of Steel (album review) - Sputnikmusic
- Jump up ↑ Death Metal Underground: Nokturnal Mortum - Verity (2017)
- ↑ a b c d e f NOKTURNAL MORTUM - Reviews. Archived from the original on January 27, 1999 ; accessed on January 28, 2010 (English).
- ↑ a b Robert Müller: Nokturnal Mortum . Goat Horns . In: Metal Hammer , November 1998, p. 87.
- ↑ a b c Robert Müller: Nokturnal Mortum . Ne Christ . In: Metal Hammer , August 2000, p. 90.
- ↑ Robert Müller: Nokturnal Mortum . To The Gates Of Blasphemous Fire . In: Metal Hammer , May 1999, p. 84.
- ↑ NOKTURNAL MORTUM "The Voice of Steel". December 29, 2009, archived from the original on January 30, 2010 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 .
- ^ Metal Underground.com: Nokturnal Mortum - "NeChrist" CD Review .
- ^ Christian Dornbusch , Hans-Peter Killguss: Unheilige Alliances . Black Metal between Satanism, Paganism and Neo-Nazism. Unrast Verlag , Münster 2005, ISBN 3-89771-817-0 , p. 245 .
- ↑ a b Nokturnal Mortum Interview «Frostkamp Magazine. August 5, 2008, accessed January 28, 2010 .
- ↑ BAnz AT 06/30/2014 B8