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NOCTURNAL RITES BAND PAGE
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CURRENT NAME
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Nocturnal Rites | |
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FORMER NAMES
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Necronomic | |
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ORIGIN
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Umeå, Västerbottens Län, Sweden | |
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STATUS
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Active | |
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FORMED IN
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1990 | |
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LABEL
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Century Media | |
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GENRE
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Power metal | |
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STYLE
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LYRICAL THEME
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| BAND ADDED | 2005-07-22, 00:00 | |
| LAST UPDATE | 2009-01-11, 16:23 | |
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| Band biography |
In '91 the band made their first, and still only official, demo recording. A four track release called "The Obscure". It attracted a fair share of independet label interest, but the band decided to wait for something better. While writing material for what came to be a two track promo recording, they found themselves having drifted away from the "mainstream" death metal, towards a more melodic and harmonic oriented sound. This new approch, again, attracted some label attention. Still, nothing the band would be willing to sign. Around this time drummer Tommy Eriksson left the band and was replaced by Ulf Andersson. The band also added a second guitarist, Mikael Söderström.
Through 1993 the band continued writing material and by this time their sound had come to grow into traditional heavy metal, influenced by the likes of Iron Maiden and Judas Priest. The band describes this transison as a normal continuance on what they started on in 1992. By the fall/end of ’93 they felt they had gathered enough good material for another recording. This recording, however, made the band realize that Fredrik’s vocals didn’t quite fit their innovated sound. So they felt they had to recruit a proper, melodic singer. Fredrik’s replacement was found in Anders Zackrisson, a talented and experienced vocalist, formerly of Umea’s Gotham City.
Even though 93’s recording didn’t represent the band’s sound with newly recruited Zackrisson, they felt the songs had potential, and it was sent out to various labels. The tape caught swedish label Dark Age’s attention.
A deal was worked out and by the end of 1994 the band signed it. Dark Age’s intention was always to license the album to a bigger label with better funds and distribution, and the partner was found in Megarock Records. In 1995 the debut album In a Time of Blood and Fire was finally released. It was crtically a big sucess but, unfortunately, due to some distribution problems and poor efforts in promoting the album, it never became the sucess it potentially could have been.
While writing for a follow-up, guitarist Mikael Söderström decided to leave the band and was replaced by Nils Norberg. A perfect addition to the band, equally talented as musician and songwriter.
In late 1997 the band’s second CD, Tales of Mystery and Imagination was released in Japan. But since Megarock didn’t please Dark Age, they shopped around for a better deal in Europe. Ultimately, the band was sold to Century Media, and the album was released in March 1998.
In February 1999, the band’s third album "The Sacred Talisman" was relased. After the release of The Sacred Talisman the band joined Nevermore, Lefay and Sacred Steel for a hughe European tour which took them accross most parts of Europe.
After a tour they went back to writing new material for the upcoming album at that point still untiled.
In September of 2000 they’re back with a new vocalist (Jonny Lindkvist) and their fourth offering, called Afterlife. After touring in support of their albums, the band continues to grow and sales keep increasing in Europe and Japan as well as in the US.
We call the year 2001 one and finally Nocturnl Rites embark on the tour supporting last years release Afterlife. Doing several shows across Europe and some festivals during the summer. After the tour they will start writing new material for the upcoming release.
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