Nocturnal Reaper is a black/speed metal and hardcore band from London, UK, formed in 2024. Their sound fuses the velocity of speed metal and black metal with hardcore's raw aggression.

Nocturnal Rites is a Swedish power metal band from Umeå, formed in 1990 under the name Necronomic as a death metal outfit before gradually shifting toward melodic power metal across their early releases. Their first album In a Time of Blood and Fire (1995) signaled the transition, and they developed into a respected melodic power metal act across nine studio albums, including Grand Illusion (2006) and The 8th Sin (2007). The band entered an indefinite hiatus in 2018, returning only for a final studio album, Phoenix (2017), before going quiet.

Nocturnal Ritual is a black metal project from Bergen, Norway, active since 2014. They continue Bergen's legendary tradition of black metal with ritualistic intensity.

Nocturnal Scum is a death metal and crust band from Berlin, active since 2016. The band pairs death metal heaviness with crust punk's raw urgency from the German capital.

Nocturnal Throne is a black metal project from Grebbestad, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project channels raw black metal from the picturesque Bohuslän coast.

Nocturnal Weed is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Ulm, active since 2019. The band delivers haze-drenched doom from the Danube city where Einstein was born.

Nocturnal Witch is a black/thrash metal band from Neustadt an der Orla in Thuringia, active since 2014. The band casts blackened thrash spells from the eastern German countryside.

Nocturnal Wrath is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Tula, Russia, active since 2003. Over two decades, they have evolved through black, death, doom, and industrial metal influences.

Nocturnalmorg is a depressive black metal project from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2014. They channel Siberian despair through the bleakest shades of DSBM.