Band Biographies: NOCTURN

Nocturn was founded in 2007 by Seb, then joined by Vince to build a new collaboration upon the ashes their past projects (Lorien, that became Anima). The idea was to play extreme but melodic music, mostly black/death metal but filled with various influences such as Dimmu Borgir, Death, Cradle of Filth, Immortal, Iron Maiden, Guns’n Roses, Jean-Michel Jarre, Children of Bodom, Dream Theater, Slayer, Bach, and many other artists in several music styles. 

After some months of songwriting and playing with different musicians, we managed to gather a full line up in 2010 and played a few nice live dates. We decided to get in studio in 2013 to record our first EP, a 3 songs demo and we promoted it by playing live about fifteen dates from 2014 to 2015.

After a big line-up change in 2015, we get back to work with new musicians and we managed in 2017 to gather a full line-up: Matt (bass), Léo (lead guitar) and Nico (drums). We invited Sophie, singer in “From Hell with love”, as a guest to sing melodies and harmonized parts on our album.

We got back in studio in summer 2018 and recorded our first album, « Like a Seed of Dust ».

We definitely teamed with Sophie as co-singer. Nico dismissed for his work and we welcomed Florian, a talented drum student. We mastered the album in summer 2019 and improved the alchemy between the members. We performed the first live show under this configuration in December 2019, and it was the best one.

In 2020 we managed to find a label to sign our first album. We are proud to join the Sliptrick Records family ! The album releases today, the 1st September o f this strange year 2020, and future is still to write.