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Nocturnal Rites is a Swedish power metal band formed in 1994, Umeå/Holmsund. So far they’ve released 7 studio albums.

Their first three albums (‘In a Time of Blood and Fire’, ‘Tales of Mystery and Imagination’ and ‘The Sacred Talisman’) feature the former vocalist Anders Zackrisson, while the newer albums are sung by Johnny Lindkvist. Also the musical style has changed a bit during the years; some demo’s were something more like death metal … , but then the three first cd releases pure melodic power metal, and on “Afterlife” they took a bit heavier approach with influences of true heavy metal like Masterplan and Dream Evil and even some thrash metal riffs, though the melodic choruses were kept right in the core of the songs.

They have released a few more albums since, with the latest ones being ‘Grand Illusion’ that came in 2005 and ‘8th Sin’ that came out in 2007. The band keeps on fighting on and remains one of Scandinavia’s best known power metal bands.

On June 21st, 2008 it was announced that guitarist Nils Norberg has left the band. On May 9th, 2010, Chris Rörland joined Nocturnal Rites. A video of him playing and Fredrik Mannberg talking a bit about him can be seen here.
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  • xMirazelx

    and update would be nice

    Sunday evening

  • mattimek

    + Me +

    Friday afternoon

  • Sorrowful_shade

    shadowland and the sacred talisman are their best in my opinion. [2]

    24 days ago

  • A-lexandre

    Ring Of Steel is awesome!

    last month

  • Violin_Rocker

    they need to really get their energy and get shit done, but they do make lots of high quality sounds.. especially their last 2 albums were really good LOL

    March 2012

  • Kattfan_93

    They have been recording the new album like forever now... WHEN IS IT DONE? Couse i wanna hear new material from these guys NOOOOOW!

    February 2012

  • D86Leader

    я почти уверен, что это никто не прочитает, но все же странно, что Вконтакте и здесь в топе разные треки. Видимо у россиян и нероссиян (национализм, ок?) разные вкусы

    February 2012

  • WarlockMeister

    Whatever shit I go through in my life and however low I get these guys always pick me up and make me feel on top of the world

    January 2012
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NR in the Japanese Charts!

10 Jul 2007 | from blog.myspace.com/nocturnalrites

Hi all, we entered the Japanese charts with "The 8th Sin"! To make it easy I simply copy/pasted my comments from the official press release by Century Media: "Wow is simply all I can …

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