History Music / NokturnalMortum

* CoverVersion: They've covered "Sorrows of the Moon" by Music/CelticFrost, "My Journey to the Stars" by Music/{{Burzum}}, "Turisaz" by Graveland, "Valhalla" by Music/{{Bathory}}, "Family Vault" by Death SS, "Lira" by Ukranian rock band Komu Vnyz, and, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers most surprisingly]], "Nights in White Satin" by Music/TheMoodyBlues. We shit you not. It's a very respectful and mostly faithful cover, too - definitely not played for any sort of irony. Meanwhile, the band's compilation ''22 Years Among the Sheep'' features three discs worth of Nokturnal Mortum covers by other artists, many with rewritten or translated lyrics in the bands' native languages. (The rewrites were necessitated because apparently even the band themselves no longer remember most of the lyrics from the albums before ''To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire''.)

* BadassBaritone: Knjaz Varggoth has some ''deep'' vocals, even when talking too.

* ThoseWackyNazis: ''[[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Not to go into too many details...]]'' but they went with this during the ''Nechrist'' to ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'' era. They seemed to distance themselves with it around 2009 with the release of ''The Voice of Steel'', whose lyrics were mostly fantasy themed, and Knjaz finally dropped politics altogether in 2014. The most we know of their political ideologies now is more about the conflict with Ukraine's independence from Russia and are now more of a "Proud of Ukraine" type of band. There remains some debate about how sincere the band is about its attempts to distance itself from the far right, but in any case, they don't seem to want the overt associations any longer.

...And unfortunately, [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement there's another known factor]].

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Generally a 7-8 throughout their catalog. They actually used to be higher although they dropped by one after ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung''.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: The band Lucifugum ended their friendship with Nokturnal Mortum over the latter's politics. This was after they had released a split together, 1997's ''Path of the Wolf / Return of the Vampire Lord''; moreover, Nokturnal Mortum's 1998 album ''To the Gates of Blasphemous Fire'' was dedicated to Lucifugum's sole constant member Igor Naumchuk.

* BadassBaritone / BadassBeard: Knjaz Varggoth has some ''deep'' vocals, even when talking too. That's not even talking with the beard he sported around ''The Voice of Steel''.

* ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'' (2004/2005) [[note]]Both have the same metal songs in different languages (Russian on the former except for "Слава героям", which is in Ukrainian; English on the latter), but despite similarly named instrumentals, they're actually completely different compositions apart from "Endless Vast Swamps"[[/note]]

* ''Nechrist'' (1999)

* ''Twilightfall'' [Demo] (1995)
* ''Lunar Poetry'' [Demo] (1996)

* AlbumIntroTrack: After ''Nechrist'', they began to use this a lot more often. See {{Leitmotif}} as well. A lot of their albums also have album ''outro'' tracks, including ''Twilightfall'', ''Lunar Poetry'' (if you count "Barbarian's Dreams" as its own song), ''Goat Horns'', ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'', and ''Verity''.

* ProgressiveMetal: Another major influence on their sound, particularly starting around ''Weltanschauung'', though it's always been there to some extent. Perhaps surprisingly to people who haven't actually heard their music, one of their biggest musical influences is Music/PinkFloyd, and David Gilmour is almost certainly Knjaz Varggoth's biggest influence as a guitarist; around half of his guitar solos on their last several albums could probably slot into any latter-day Pink Floyd album without feeling out of place. Knjaz is an avowed fan of several other prog groups as well.

* UncommonTime: Befitting any self-respecting fans of progressive rock, they employ this liberally. "Eastern Breakdown" contains one segment near the end that seemingly changes meter signatures every few bars; there's another similar segment with a lot of meter signature changes in the middle of "The New Era of Swords" which, impressively, the band even manages to pull off live with few alterations. These are far from the band's only examples.

...And unfortunately, [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement there's another known factor]].

* ThoseWackyNazis: ''[[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement Not to go into too many details...]]'' but they went with this during the ''Nechrist'' to ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'' era. They seemed to distance themselves with it around 2009 with the release of ''The Voice of Steel'', whose lyrics were mostly fantasy themed, and Knjaz finally dropped politics altogether in 2014. The most we know of their political ideologies now is more about the conflict with Ukraine's independence from Russia and are now more of a "Proud of Ukraine" type of band. There remains some debate about how sincere the band is about its attempts to distance itself from the far right, but in any case, they don't seem to want the overt associations any longer.

* AlbumIntroTrack: After ''Nechrist'', they began to use this a lot more often. See {{Leitmotif}} as well.

* {{Leitmotif}}: The horn melody that began on ''Nechrist'' has become the intro for every album after it, being heard during a battle in "Путь бессмертных / The Path of Immortals" off of ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'', the intro off of ''The Voice of Steel'' mixed with nature ambience, "For the Undefeated" on ''The Spirit Never Dies'', and "I'll Meet You In Ancient Darkness (Intro)" off of ''Verity''.

* ''Мировоззрение / Weltanschauung'' (2004/2005) [[note]]Both have the same metal songs in different languages (Russian and Ukrainian on the former, English on the latter), but despite similarly named instrumentals, they're actually completely different compositions apart from "Endless Vast Swamps"[[/note]]

* BilingualBonus: They sprinkled this throughout their catalog but now fully embraced it from 2009 onwards; all of their lyrics have been in Ukrainian for their last two albums. ''Мировоззрение'' and some of their other earlier examples of this were mostly in Russian, though.

* CoverVersion: They've covered "Sorrows of the Moon" by Music/CelticFrost, "My Journey to the Stars" by Music/{{Burzum}}, "Turisaz" by Graveland, "Valhalla" by Music/{{Bathory}}, "Family Vault" by Death SS, "Lira" by Ukranian rock band Komu Vnyz, and, [[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers most surprisingly]], "Nights in White Satin" by Music/TheMoodyBlues. We shit you not. It's a very respectful and mostly faithful cover, too - definitely not played for any sort of irony.