Nov 1, 2026 · 25 min · 11 segments
Nocturnis is a five-piece black metal band from the Black Forest region of southern Germany, known for combining atmospheric intensity with historically informed concept albums. Formed in 2019, the…
Dark HelHostDrangsal basically means something like a huge hardship or something like tribulation.
And it's basically the idea of the witch hunts being a huge hardship for mankind and like the whole persecution of witches and everything.
So that's like basically the idea or like the premise of the... album being the huge toll it took on mankind just for basically nothing so that's the thing or lucas correct me if i'm wrong that's like the thing that was the idea we had
nothing to add from my side
Yeah, the lyrics are, how should I say, pretty horrifying, but they have some kind of emotional tone to it.
So we are kind of a historical band, we take different themes in history, horrific themes like World War I with our former album Unsägen and now Drangsal with the witch trials.
But we do not use them like, how should I say, it happened exactly this and that and this was the person who said this and so on.
So we try to... given an original tone, like it was back then.
But the whole thing has an artistic view on it.
So we tried to be very, or like Lucas, he's the main lyricist of the band.
So that's like basically the idea.
So I noticed that you even sing in German because I was trying to check the lyrics I didn't find and basically the titles were all written in German.
Yeah, it began with Unse.
We can use different dialects or kind of accents in words that still make sense but have a more, yeah, for us it's more a poetic way of writing because we can fully embrace what we feel when writing a song and not trying to translate it that it sounds cool and stuff.
We can make it sound cool and we can really express what we want to express.
Drangsal basically means something like a huge hardship or something like tribulation.
And it's basically the idea of the witch hunts being a huge hardship for mankind and like the whole persecution of witches and everything.
So that's like basically the idea or like the premise of the... album being the huge toll it took on mankind just for basically nothing so that's the thing or lucas correct me if i'm wrong that's like the thing that was the idea we had
nothing to add from my side
Yeah, the lyrics are, how should I say, pretty horrifying, but they have some kind of emotional tone to it.
So we are kind of a historical band, we take different themes in history, horrific themes like World War I with our former album Unsägen and now Drangsal with the witch trials.
But we do not use them like, how should I say, it happened exactly this and that and this was the person who said this and so on.
So we try to... given an original tone, like it was back then.
But the whole thing has an artistic view on it.
So we tried to be very, or like Lucas, he's the main lyricist of the band.
So that's like basically the idea.
So I noticed that you even sing in German because I was trying to check the lyrics I didn't find and basically the titles were all written in German.
Yeah, it began with Unse.
We can use different dialects or kind of accents in words that still make sense but have a more, yeah, for us it's more a poetic way of writing because we can fully embrace what we feel when writing a song and not trying to translate it that it sounds cool and stuff.
We can make it sound cool and we can really express what we want to express.
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