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Nokturnel
12+ albums
thrash metaldeath metaldeath thrash metalUSADeath-Thrash
about
Taken from the band's myspace, by Tom Stevens Welcome to my world of negativity......but I mean that in a good way. You must want to know about this band and or my history in the underground so let me enlighten you. You will not find many pics of us though eventually there may be some old video footage. Since we were pretty fucking ugly and not in metal guy costumes what we looked like seemed irrelevant. We cared about nothing but the metal, nothing else mattered. We were not at all trendy and always seemed to go against the grain. The thing that pissed us off the most was that it seemed like people could see our talent as musicians but wondered why we were not doing what everyone else was. To us, that defeated the purpose of the band. We wanted to baffle people with our technical metal, and we did, but more often than not that was overlooked and all people cared about was that we were fast. Speed was a huge factor for Nokturnel. We were all about it, but the way people focused on that made me think we should have just played grind. I will admit we wanted the things successful bands had. Killer equipment, a good label and opportunities to tour but instead of becoming another clone band to get there we chose to make the best of things and agreed to basically have cash out of pocket to keep us doing what we loved the most, and that was playing metal. Almost any time we were promised anything, those promises were worth nothing. We learned that early on and honestly I still hea
