Black_socciety: Noctis Invocat

10/5/12

Noctis Invocat

NOCTIS INVOCAT was born in a full moon, end of march 1994. Bringin to their land (Guatemala) a new meaning of darkness.

This band was baptized by the night, tryng to make the better they could, “making a creative and soulfull music”, without leaving the path they choose, a black depressive metal. A new breath to the central american scene, with influence of doom, astral, gothic and occult metal, always tryng to keep the touch of intense and powerfull meaning of raw feeling, reflexion of their heavy depression mixing the teatrical way of life.

NOCTIS INVOCAT its a latin name (mother leanguage) thats means invocating the night, a name who explain well what the lirics and music is about.

Their debut demo “Eternal Dreams of Fire”, was recorded in Guatemala city during agust of 1994, this promotional tape bring to the ears 3 mystic poems, plus and acoustic outro in spanish,this demo makes a reflexion and put them in a step futher to the scene not only in their guatemalan scene, and makes a big revolution in brothers countrys like El Salvador and Honduras, mixing a occult, doom, theastral and depressive black metal.

This only demo (E.D.O.F.) was worth to the band in 1998 to made their new step, recording on “Southern Hellish Productions” a label from Argentina, their debut CD “Depressiva Vox Clamantis” (a depressive voice who claims), it contains 7 tracks of the most atmospheric, depressive and melodic black metal even better than their first demo E.D.O.F., showing a natural evolution, well structure song, fast changes of times, and a complex arrenges, mixing acoustic slow pasages with fast, brutal and diabolics sounds, making a intense and deep trance to the feeling.

Also they bring to their music diferents lenguages: English, Spanish, German and Latín, and like plus a female vocals, and unheard whispers.

The new step for them was a new challenge, make a production for themselves, a mature step, involving the whole band in a new responsibility,bring a new and a powerful, even better than their predecesor, and the results was in november of 2002 NOCTIS INVOCAT enter to the studio again, and was born their second effort called: “Luxuria In Caellum” (Lust in Heaven), this time with a new member Willy Monroy on the keyboards, who brings a new blood to their pentagram, 7 (plus intro and outro) obscure, melodics, acoustic, and raw brutal black metal tracks, always in the same occult and mystic vein, who makes this band the most notable acts in Guatemala and the central america scene.

Depressiva Vox Clamantis