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."Interview with Varggoth in Firegoat webzine 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,CoC-interview with Andreas Katsambas 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)

References

Freemit airtins
 Nokturnal Mortum biography @ MusicMight 

Category:Ukrainian black metal muisical groups
Category:Symphonic black metal muisical groups
Category:Muisical groups established in 1994
Category:Naitional Socialist black metal muisical groups
Category:1990s muisic groups
Category:2000s muisic groups
Category:2010s muisic groups
Category:Muisical quintets