NOCTURNAL FEAR

Thrash Metal • United States
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Nocturnal Fear are an American thrash band from Detroit. The band's roots go back to the 1980s, but Nocturnal Fear was officially formed in 2000. Their style is raw and aggressive Slayeresque thrash with elements from death metal, most notably the use of blast beats.
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NOCTURNAL FEAR Sterilize and Exterminate album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Sterilize and Exterminate
Thrash Metal 2002
NOCTURNAL FEAR Fog of War album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Fog of War
Thrash Metal 2005
NOCTURNAL FEAR Code of Violence album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Code of Violence
Thrash Metal 2008
NOCTURNAL FEAR Metal of Honor album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Metal of Honor
Thrash Metal 2009
NOCTURNAL FEAR Excessive Cruelty album cover 4.00 | 1 ratings
Excessive Cruelty
Thrash Metal 2011

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NOCTURNAL FEAR Line of Fire album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Line of Fire
Thrash Metal 2007
NOCTURNAL FEAR Allied for the Upcoming Genocide album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Allied for the Upcoming Genocide
Thrash Metal 2013

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NOCTURNAL FEAR Pagan Rites album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Pagan Rites
Thrash Metal 2000

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NOCTURNAL FEAR Excessive Cruelty

Album · 2011 · Thrash Metal
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World War 3...

Genre: thrash metal

Lock and load and get ready for war, because Nocturnal Fear are about to launch a major attack on your town.

From beginning to end, Nocturnal Fear deliver one barrage after another of aggressive thrash metal on "Excessive Cruelty" accompanied by war-themed lyrics. While there are some more death metal-like elements, such as the occasional well-placed blastbeat and death metal-style riffage, Nocturnal Fear's style on this album is very old school.

There are some Slayer and other American influences, to be sure, but primarily they draw on the more brutal and aggressive thrash metal style associated with the German thrash bands of the mid-to-late 1980s. Thus, Nocturnal Fear capture the technicality of American 80s thrash metal and the raw and dirty aggression of German thrash metal of the 1980s and combine it into a quasi-technical and aggressive-to-brutal feel. In other words, this is thrash metal when thrash metal is really good.

The production is also retro and has a certain DIY-feel to it, much like the thrash metal of the 1980s. So, it has a raw quality to it, but it is not so lo-fi that it sounds amateurish or anything. It just sounds authentic, and suits the aggressive music perfectly.

"Excessive Cruelty" by Nocturnal Fear is recommended to any fan of authentic ass-kicking thrash metal.

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