Noctiferia
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Noctiferia is one of the leading bands that started the metal subculture in Slovenia. They built foundations of Slovenian black metal with their debut album, Baptism At Savica Fall (1998), which also represented the beginnings of the southern black metal movement. They released the album, Per Aspera, in 2003 for the American metal label Arctic music group. That resulted in touring Europe with bands like Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation is a death metal band originally hailing from Buffalo, New York. Moving to Florida in 1987, they became a part of the emergent local death metal scene, landing a deal with Roadrunner Records...

, Immolation
Immolation (band)
-History:The band formed in May 1986 by Andrew Sakowicz and Dave Wilkinson under the name Rigor Mortis . The name was changed to Immolation in April 1988, after the Warriors of Doom demo which was recorded as Rigor Mortis and Demo I which was recorded as Immolation...

, Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...

, and Marduk
Marduk (band)
Marduk is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden. The band formed in 1990 and released their first record in 1991. Their name is derived from the Babylonian god Marduk, patron deity of Babylon.-Musical style:...

. Their third album, Slovenska Morbida (2006), was mixed in the "Abbys Studio" in Sweden with extreme metal producer Peter Tägtgren
Peter Tägtgren
Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....

, a member of Swedish groups Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)
Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...

 and Pain also producer of bands like Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir
Dimmu Borgir is a Norwegian black metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 1993. Dimmu borgir means "dark cities" or "dark castles/fortresses" in Icelandic, Faroese and Old Norse. The name is derived from a volcanic formation in Iceland, Dimmuborgir...

, Immortal
Immortal (band)
Immortal is a black metal band from Bergen, Norway, founded in 1990 by current frontman/guitarist Abbath Doom Occulta and former guitarist Demonaz Doom Occulta...

. Noctiferia possess originality that always leads to something unique, precise and slightly different. They dare to change and develop constantly, searching and interweaving different music styles in metal groundwork.

Biography

Noctiferia is an extreme metal band from Ljubljana (Slovenia), formed in 1996. Noctiferia was one of few metal bands from Slovenia and other parts of Balkan at that time. By breaking new ground, the band was always different, always following its own path and exploring music. Noctiferia has been spreading its unique style of extreme metal ever since.

After their first demo in 1996 called Gods of Pocka, the band made its first live performance on April 21, 1997 as the opening act at the Absu/Enslaved
Enslaved (band)
Enslaved is a progressive black metal band formed in June 1991 in Sveio, Norway, and currently based out of Bergen, Norway.-History:Enslaved was formed in June 1991 by Ivar Bjørnson and Grutle Kjellson when they were 13 and 17 years old, respectively. The band name was inspired by an Immortal demo...

 show in Ljubljana. Soon after that, band entered studio to record it's first full length debut Baptism at Savica fall. At that time, Noctiferia represented one of few pagan black metal bands in Europe. The album was reviewed in UK's Kerrang magazine and got 4/5 points. In that time the band did numerous live shows and shared stage with names like Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse
Cannibal Corpse is an American death metal band from Buffalo, New York. Formed in 1988, the band has released eleven studio albums, one box set, and one live album...

, Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ
Rotting Christ is a Greek black metal band formed in 1987. They are noted for being one of the first black metal bands within this region, as well as a premier act within the European underground metal scene.- Line-up :...

, Deicide
Deicide (band)
Deicide is an American death metal band formed in 1987. Their first two albums, Deicide and Legion, are ranked second and third place in best-selling death metal albums of the SoundScan era.-As Amon/Carnage :...

, Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral
Dark Funeral is a black metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, founded by guitarists Blackmoon and Lord Ahriman in 1993. They are one of the bands to have emerged in Sweden during the Second wave of black metal....

, Marduk
Marduk (band)
Marduk is a black metal band from Norrköping, Sweden. The band formed in 1990 and released their first record in 1991. Their name is derived from the Babylonian god Marduk, patron deity of Babylon.-Musical style:...

 and Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene
Impaled Nazarene is a Finnish black metal band that incorporates elements of grindcore in their sound and punk rock in their aesthetics. The band is currently signed to Osmose Productions of France....

. Three years after their debut, the band entered the studio again to record second studio album.

The album Per Aspera was released in Slovenia in 2002 and worldwide in 2003 by Artctic Music Group. The band embarked on their first European tour with Marduk, Kataklysm
Kataklysm
Kataklysm is a Canadian death metal band. They call their musical style "northern hyperblast" after an advertisement in M.E.A.T. magazine describing another band, Fear Factory, as "hyperblast". The term refers to the extremely fast blast beats that Kataklysm's drummer, Max Duhamel, fuses into the...

, and Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation
Malevolent Creation is a death metal band originally hailing from Buffalo, New York. Moving to Florida in 1987, they became a part of the emergent local death metal scene, landing a deal with Roadrunner Records...

 in 2003. Per Aspera was very much in vain of technical extreme black death metal. The video for their single, Fond of Lies, was charted at #1 for 8 weeks on Slovenian national TV. In 2004 the band played at their first ever Metalcamp
Metalcamp
Metalcamp is a heavy metal music festival held annually in Slovenia since 2004.-2004:Danzig, Apocalyptica, Hypocrisy, Sentenced, Primal Fear, Katatonia, Dew-Scented, Dead Soul Tribe, Fleshcrawl, Mnemic, Prospect, Belphegor, Ancient, Destruction, Brainstorm, Dark Funeral, Vintersorg, Finntroll,...

 right after Danzig, and it was then that they made connections with their future partner, Mr. Peter Tägtgren
Peter Tägtgren
Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....

 (Hypocrisy
Hypocrisy (band)
Hypocrisy is a melodic death metal band from Sweden. It was formed in 1990 in Ludvika, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren.Musically, the band started off with a traditional death metal sound on their first albums, and soon drifted to become a melodic death metal band. The lyrics in their early stages -...

/Pain).

In 2005 Noctiferia entered the studio once again to record their third album Slovenska Morbida. It is their most experimental album to date. It is strongly influenced by etno music, electronics, and experimental sounds. The band flew to the Abyss studio in Sweden to mix the album with Peter Tagtgren
Peter Tägtgren
Alf Peter Tägtgren is a Swedish musician and producer. He is the founder, main songwriter, lead vocalist, and guitarist of the death metal band Hypocrisy as well as the industrial metal band PAIN in which he is the only member....

. The album was promoted with several tours- UK tour with Hypocrisy, a couple of shows with Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth
Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...

 and Pain, two appearances at the Metalcamp's main stage, a co-headlined metal stage at Wave Gothic Treffen, a headlined metal stage at the Exit festival, opened for In Flames
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...

. Slovenska Morbida was re-released for GAS market by Danse Macabre in 2008 with 3 bonus tracks in German. The South-Eastern European tour with Samael
Samael (band)
Samael is a industrial black metal band formed in 1987 in Sion, Switzerland.-Biography:Although much of their music from the mid-1990s onwards has incorporated electronic sounds which would best define their genre as industrial metal, they are an early 2nd Wave black metal band and an innovator for...

 and Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin
Keep of Kalessin is an extreme metal band from Trondheim, Norway formed in 1993. The group's early lineup consisted of Ghash on vocals, Obsidian C. on guitars and keyboards, Warach on bass, and Vyl on drums. They released two albums under this lineup: Through Times of War in 1997, and Agnen: A...

 in January 9 was the last under the mark of Slovenska Morbida. In cooperation with the Master of Metal, their debut Baptism At Savica Fall with demo collection was released in 2007 and completely sold out.

The pre-production for the 4th album called Death Culture started in 2008 when the band went to Switzerland to the home studio from Mass of Samael. When the ideas were polished, the band entered DB studios and recorded the material. The album was gonna be mixed by Peter Tägtgren but the band had to wait for few months because Peter was busy with Immortal's new album. In order to get the maximum possible quality of the recording, Peter suggested to send it to the Black Lounge studio for
the mastering, where Jonas Kjellgren
Jonas Kjellgren
Jonas Kjellgren is a Swedish musician and producer, now residing in Grangärde, Sweden. He has played for bands such as Carnal Forge and Dellamorte as their lead vocalist and played guitar for Centinex, Scar Symmetry and bass for October Tide. As a producer, he has worked with bands such as Sonic...

 (Scar Symmetry
Scar Symmetry
Scar Symmetry is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Avesta in Dalarna County, formed in 2004. The band has released five albums, with six released singles...

) delivered the final punch to Death Culture. In first days of 2010 Noctiferia signed a worldwide deal with Listenable Records who released Death Culture worldwide. So far the band recorded video for single "Demoncracy", played lots of single shows, headlined at Metalcamp 2010, did European tour with legendary Mayhem
Mayhem (band)
Mayhem is a Norwegian black metal band formed in 1984 in Oslo, Norway and regarded as one of the pioneers of the influential Norwegian black metal scene...

and another one with Melechech. In summer 2011 band will start pre-production for their fifth full length studio album.

Members

  • Gianni Poposki - Vox, Percussion (2003–present)
  • Igor Nardin - guitars, keys, programing (1996–present)
  • Roman Files - guitars (2006–present)
  • Uros Lipovec - bass, vox (1996–present)
  • Mathias Gergeta - drums, percussion (2007–present)

Former members

  • David Kiselic - guitar, vox (1996–2001)
  • Artur Felicijan - guitar, vox (2001–2002)
  • Robert Steblovnik - drumsr (1996–2004)
  • Matija Kitanovski - live session guitar (2005–2006)
  • Luka Cadez - drums (2004–2007)

Discography

  • Baptism at Savica Fall (1998)
  • Per Aspera (2003)
  • Slovenska Morbida (2007)
  • Slovenska Morbida GAS (2008)
  • Death Culture (2010)

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