Noctiferia
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, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, and Marduk. Their third album, Slovenska Morbida (2006), was mixed in the "Abbys Studio" in Sweden with extreme metal producer Peter Tägtgren, a member of Swedish groups Hypocrisy and Pain and producer of bands like Dimmu Borgir, Immortal. Their music often integrates other musical styles into a metal genre sound.
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 the Balkans at that time.
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 show in Ljubljana. Soon after that, band entered studio to record its full length debut album Baptism at Savica fall. At that time, Noctiferia was one of few pagan black metal bands in Europe. The UK's Kerrang! magazine reviewed the album, giving it 4/5 points. During that time, the band performed numerous live shows and shared stage with names like Cannibal Corpse, Rotting Christ, Deicide, Dark Funeral, Marduk and Impaled Nazarene. 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 Arctic Music Group. The band embarked on their first European tour with Marduk, Kataklysm, and Malevolent Creation in 2003. The video for their single, "Fond of Lies," was charted at No. 1 for 8 weeks on Slovenian national TV. In 2004, the band played at their first ever Metalcamp right after Danzig and made connections with their future partner, Mr. Peter Tägtgren (Hypocrisy/Pain).
In 2005, Noctiferia entered the studio once again to record their third album Slovenska Morbida. It is their most experimental album to date, 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. The album was promoted with several tours: a UK tour with Hypocrisy, a couple of shows with Cradle of Filth 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. 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 and Keep of Kalessin in January 9 was the last under the mark of Slovenska Morbida.
The pre-production for the 4th album called Death Culture started in 2008. When the ideas were polished, the band entered DB studios and recorded the material. In order to get the maximum possible quality of the recording, Peter Tägtgren suggested to send it to the Black Lounge studio for the mastering, where Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry) finalized Death Culture. In first days of 2010, Noctiferia signed a deal with Listenable Records who released Death Culture worldwide. So far, the band has recorded a video for the single "Demoncracy", played several single shows, headlined at Metalcamp 2010, and toured with the bands Mayhem and Melechesh. In summer 2011, the 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 - drums (1996–2004)
- Matija Kitanovski - live session guitar (2005–2006)
- Luka Cadez - drums (2004–2007)
Discography
- Gods Of Pocka (1996)
- Eternal Blasphemy (1997)
- Baptism At Savica Fall (1998)
- Inhuman (2000)
- Per Aspera (2002)
- Slovenska Morbida (2006)
- Death Culture (2010)