Nokturnal Mortum

Nokturnal Mortum is a Ukrainian black metal baund frae Kharkiv.

History

Nokturnal Mortum stairtit as a daith metal baund Suppuration in 1991, then turned tae black metal an chyngit thair name tae Crystalline Darkness but "had tae chynge the name back in 1993/94 tae Nocturnal Mortum acause there awready existit a baund wi that name in wastren unnergrund." Then the baund "chyngit the letter so that we wadna find a baund wi the same name again like it wis the case wi Crystaline Darkness." Nokturnal Mortum gained thair first Wastren recognition wi the release o thair album Goat Horns, thair seicont full lenth album, notable for haein twa keyboardists play on the album, aften on the same sang, an for mixin traditional Ukrainian muisic wi black metal. As traditional instrumentation gained in significance an the leerical concept muivit away frae black metal’s patterns, the newer releases are clessifee'd as pagan metal.

The baund’s first albums wur released throu The End Records an (as licence pressings) throu Nuclear Blast, but the label an baund separatit efter releasin the album NeChrist an a re-release o the “Lunar Poetry” demo acause o the baund’s ideology: "We haed a contract wi The End Records but it wis broken. We hae different points o view. They didna like oor policy, we didna like the way they dae business. They awe us some money. That wis enough for a conflict."

Discography

LPs

• 1996 - Lunar Poetry (re-released in 2001)
• 1997 - Goat Horns
• 1998 - To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire
• 2000 - Nechrist
• 2005 - Weltanschauung (aka Mirovozzrenie featurin Roushie an Ukrainian leerics)
• 2009 - Live in Katowice
• 2009 - The Voice of Steel
• 2017 – Істина

EPs

• 1997 - Return of the Vampire Lord (re-released wi Marble Moon on CD in 2003)
• 1997 - Marble Moon (re-released wi Return of the Vampire Lord on CD in 2003)
• 2003 - The Taste of Victory
• 2007 - Eastern Hammer (fower-way split wi Graveland, North, an Temnozor featurin a new version of "Kolyada")

Demos

• 1992 - Ecclesiastical Blasphemy (as Suppuration)
• 1993 - Mi Agama Khaz Mifisto (as Crystaline Darkness)
• 1995 - Twilightfall (re-released on CD in 2003)
• 1995 - Black Clouds over Slavonic Lands (re-released as bonus tracks on 2005 CD re-release of Lunar Poetry)
• 1996 - Lunar Poetry (re-released several times in different formats)

Splits

• 1997 - Path of the Wolf / Return of the Vampire Lord (Metalagen Records). Split tape wi Lucifugum.

Compilations

• 2004 - Eleven Years Among the Sheep (compilation of auld, unreleased, demo, an Suppuration & Crystalline Darkness sangs)

Freemit airtins

• Nokturnal Mortum biography @ MusicMight Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine