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The Black Dahlia Murder - Nocturnal



8.4 | 275 votes |
Release date: 18 September 2007
Style: Melodic death metal, Metalcore

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01. Everything Went Black
02. What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse
03. Virally Yours
04. I Worship Only What You Bleed
05. Nocturnal
06. Deathmask Divine
07. Of Darkness Spawned
08. Climactic Degradation
09. To A Breathless Oblivion
10. Warborn

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b0000mst1ck
Rating:
8.7
The heathens are back with their third release: Nocturnal. Ten tracks of constant, driving mayhem that should become a textbook definition of deathcore. Their perfect mixture of death metal and hardcore elements should really say something, as they still haven't given up on either influence. Both are prevalent throughout, yet somehow work together.

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published 20.02.2008 | Comments (8)

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24.12.2010 - 19:20
Stay (sic)

Nocturnal, The album titled song, Best One along with What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse<3!!
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26.12.2010 - 18:41
JD
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Written by Stay (sic) on 24.12.2010 at 19:20

Nocturnal, The album titled song, Best One along with What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse<3!!

Agreed.
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17.03.2011 - 11:51
MechanisT
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Written by Stay (sic) on 24.12.2010 at 19:20

Nocturnal, The album titled song, Best One along with What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse<3!!


Word.
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09.01.2012 - 17:25
Rating: 9
musicalkaratekid

A much better album than 'Miasma', i really liked this one. Seeing them on sunday:D
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22.09.2013 - 13:32
NorthernDickhead

Best metalcore album,what I have ever heard. Awesome albumcover by the way.....
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02.11.2013 - 05:59
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Written by Stay (sic) on 24.12.2010 at 19:20

Nocturnal, The album titled song, Best One along with What a Horrible Night to Have a Curse<3!!

I like To A Breathless Oblivion myself. The chorus is sweetness.
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15.04.2015 - 16:57
Rating: 8
Reaper_Redeemer

I dislike the 99% part of metalcore and I gave this a try because of the melodeath approach. Actually this is good, very good. In tracks like Deathmask Divine , Of Darkness Spawned, What A Horrible Night To Have A Curse, there are some really nice riffs and breakdowns while vocals are playing a nice role.
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20.02.2017 - 21:14
Rating: 10
thewall30

This album brings back memories, their best album no doubt
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22.08.2017 - 17:24
RikkiTikiTavi

Great fucking album and one of my favorites.
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24.06.2019 - 18:00
Rating: 5
metalriff

Almost as bad as Slaughter of the Soul. After all they're (At the Gates) the ones to blame.
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24.06.2020 - 14:45
Rating: 9
TSRodriguez

Quite amazing. Really intense from top to bottom. I really like the nerdy subject matters, like the Castlevania song (Horrible Night to have a curse), or the horny necromancer one (Deathmask Divine), and of course the title track Nocturnal which is amazing in every way. The vocals are quite weird and unique, and the guy loves to put vocals on almost every fucking second of the album, but they are varied enough. I especially love that part in Nocturnal when he screams "Nocturnal Majesty, sworn to black will always be" and he sounds like an angry Donald Duck... fun stuff
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10.02.2021 - 13:14
Rating: 9
nonZero

Easily the best Black Dahlia Murder album IMO. Also, I don't hear what's "Metalcore" about it?
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05.02.2022 - 01:37
Rating: 5
F3ynman2000
Nocturnal Bro
The guitar playing is cool. I can't stand the vocals though. it might grow on me still, who knows?
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05.02.2022 - 19:26
Rating: 8
musclassia

Funny to see a comment on this record today, listened to it today for the first time in years - still a very good album. those first two tracks are such a strong opening
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05.02.2022 - 19:47
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
The album cover reminds me of Necrophobic Mark Of The Necrogram.

Is their some connection between the two bands?
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05.02.2022 - 20:05
Rating: 8
musclassia

Written by AndyMetalFreak on 05.02.2022 at 19:47

The album cover reminds me of Necrophobic Mark Of The Necrogram.

Is their some connection between the two bands?


I discovered Necrophobic after the singer of TBDM shared 'Blinded By Light, Enlightened By Darkness' on his FB page, but apart from that, I don't believe so - this came out a decade before the Necrophobic albums with the similar artwork, so if one was inspired by the other, it would be Necrophobic inspired by this
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05.02.2022 - 20:07
Starvynth
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Written by AndyMetalFreak on 05.02.2022 at 19:47

The album cover reminds me of Necrophobic Mark Of The Necrogram.

Is their some connection between the two bands?

The only direct connection is that Necrolord (Kristian Wåhlin) created both cover artworks.
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05.02.2022 - 20:41
AndyMetalFreak
A Nice Guy
Written by Starvynth on 05.02.2022 at 20:07

The only direct connection is that Necrolord (Kristian Wåhlin) created both cover artworks.

Ok that explains it
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13.05.2022 - 16:07
A Real Mönkey

To my brothers who've fallen before me, I will walk with you again

RIP Trevor
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15.06.2022 - 14:56
Rating: 9
Metal Rasputin

I knew this was supposed to be great, I just didn't know how great. Turned out it's complete asskicking intensity from the beginning to the end, barely any quieter moments at all. It's just quality riff after quality riff with zero bullshit.
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28.11.2022 - 04:57
Rating: 9
Fred_P

This is lean and mean, relentless from beginning to end. It's a bit one note but god damn it's good.
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