DANNY LILKER Launches New Black Metal Band NOKTURNAL HELLSTORM

"Naan Kadavul", a new track from the Rochester, New York-based black metal band NOKTURNAL HELLSTORM featuring Danny Lilker (BRUTAL TRUTH, NUCLEAR ASSAULT, ANTHRAX) on bass, guitarists Quartaro and Rague, drummer Sno, keyboardist/vocalist Greenwood and frontman Blackwell can be streamed at DecibelMagazine.com.

When asked how NOKTURNAL HELLSTORM came together, Lilker told Decibel magazine, "In a way, it's similar to how BRUTAL TRUTH began way back in '90, with me working in my home studio. I wrote the music, programmed the drums and played all the instruments (no vocals, though). I asked Ron from CRUCIFIST to write and record vocals for this project, but before he got around to it, the band came to life when I realized that some of my friends from the Rochester melodic black/death band SARCOUS would be able to play this material. So, we took the three songs I had written one of which is 'Naan Kadavul' wrote another song together, and recorded what we had. That's the essence of how the band started, and as far as the impetus; well some may remember a black metal band I played in called HEMLOCK from New York City in the mid-to-late '90s. We broke up in 2001 and I relocated to Rochester a year after that. Although CRUCIFIST embodies elements of black metal, I wanted to play pure black metal again. I was quite inspired by the early '90s Scandinavian black metal scene, which re-lit the fire that had gone out when the original black metal bands from the '80s lost their direction or broke up. While a lot of people were simply drawn to the more sensational aspects of this scene and lost interest when all that died down, I still was drawn to the music, so NOKTURNAL HELLSTORM is, for me anyway, an homage to that era. We are not reinventing the wheel here."

Regarding when fans can expect to hear a full-length release from NOKTURNAL HELLSTORM, Lilker said, "At the moment we still have to write one more song to have enough for a full-length, then we will record songs five to eight, and then see who's interested in releasing it. The songwriting has temporarily taken a back seat to rehearsing for our first two shows, which are coming up quite soon. Some of our newer songs were written quite recently, so for now the priority is to ensure that we know all our material quite well so we can totally slay onstage. So, no timetable for now."