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    Nocturnal Rites is a Swedish power metal band formed in 1990. The band started off under the name Necronomic playing death metal, as can be heard on their...
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    and since 2017 he is the lead guitarist for Swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites. In January 2013, Guitar Messenger released a guitar instructional...
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    Before joining power metal band Sabaton in 2012, he played in TME and Nocturnal Rites. Rörland started at the age of seven to play the guitar. He names Adrian...
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  • video was shot for the song "Angels" with director Owe Lingvall from Nocturnal Rites. All lyrics are written by Ronny Hemlin; all music is composed by Steel...
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  • Shadowland is the fifth studio album by Swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites, released in 2002. "Eyes of the Dead" - 4:53 "Shadowland" - 4:23 "Invincible"...
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  • studio album by Swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites, released in 2000. All music and lyrics by Nocturnal Rites "Afterlife"  – 5:26 "Wake Up Dead"  –...
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  • Mystery and Imagination is the second album by Swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites, their first on Century Media. It received distribution in Europe in...
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  • seven weeks. A video for the title track was shot in Umeå, Sweden, by Nocturnal Rites' drummer Owe Lingvall. For the recording, the band wore camouflage...
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  • additional parallels, to include the cult's focus on mystic and typically nocturnal rites, its female dominated membership, the sacrifice of other animals (to...
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    Christian persecutors identified with the Devil, and whose followers held nocturnal rites at the witches' Sabbath. The theory was pioneered by two German scholars...
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  • New World Messiah (category Nocturnal Rites albums)
    New World Messiah is the sixth studio album by Nocturnal Rites. The fifth track on the album, Egyptica, was featured on the American reality television...
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  • Grand Illusion (album) (category Nocturnal Rites albums)
    Released in 2006, Grand Illusion is the seventh studio album from Nocturnal Rites. The lyrical themes on this album focus on achieving freedom and overcoming...
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  • Press, 1971, 1996 pp. 34-35, 64 Thaniel, p. 187 Dolansky, Fanny, "Nocturnal Rites to Appease the Untimely Dead: The Lemuria in Its Socio-Historical Context"...
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  • The Sacred Talisman (category Nocturnal Rites albums)
    The Sacred Talisman is the third album by Swedish power metal band Nocturnal Rites, their second on Century Media. "Destiny Calls" - 3:58 "The Iron Force"...
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  • held on just three days of the year; Paculla Annia changed them to nocturnal rites, increased their frequency to five a month, opened them to all social...
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  • reserve because their aim is to discredit pagan mythology. Annual nocturnal rites took place at the Alcyonian Lake in classical times; Pausanias refuses...
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  • secret and sacred rites, which wouldn't normally be talked about or made public. Athenian woman probably participated in the nocturnal rites. They may have...
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  • In a Time of Blood and Fire (category Nocturnal Rites albums)
    band Nocturnal Rites, released in 1995. In 2005, the album was re-issued as a two-disc compilation titled, Lost in Time: The Early Years of Nocturnal Rites...
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  • by Fast Travel Games Afterlife (Joe Jackson album), 2004 Afterlife (Nocturnal Rites album), or the title song, 2000 Afterlife, by Disco Ensemble, 2017...
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  • Phoenix (Labelle album) The Phoenix (Mastercastle album) Phoenix (Nocturnal Rites album) Phoenix (Rita Ora album) Phoenix, an album by Pink Turns Blue...
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  • metal band Nocturnal Rites together with Fredrik Mannberg in 1990, though then belonging to the death metal scene. Tommie left Nocturnal Rites in 1994....
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  • metal guitarist from Umeå in northern Sweden. He played in the band Nocturnal Rites from 1996-2008. His playing can be heard on the albums Tales of Mystery...
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    The band achieved its first full line-up when Ulf Andersson from Nocturnal Rites joined to play drums, while Morgan Hansson and Fredrik Degerström joined...
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    believed Christians, who were thought to take part in strange rituals and nocturnal rites, cultivated a dangerous and superstitious sect.: 125  During this period...
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  • The 8th Sin (category Nocturnal Rites albums)
    The 8th Sin is the eighth studio album by Swedish power metal group Nocturnal Rites, released by Century Media on 16 May 2007. All songs by Mannberg/Eriksson/Norberg...
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  • lang album), 1988 Shadowland (Dark Moor album), 1999 Shadowland (Nocturnal Rites album), 2002 "Shadowland" (song), a 1997 song from the The Lion King...
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  • Deception Monstrosity Morgion Morpheus Descends My Dying Bride Nifelheim Nocturnal Rites Novembre Osvajači Pan.Thy.Monium Paragon Penance Quicksand Regurgitate...
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    Meshuggah Misery Loves Co. Nala Nazareth Nekrokraft The New Roses Nocturnal Rites Ozzy Osbourne PAIN Pestilence Pist.On Pop Evil (Canceled) Pretty Maids...
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    "a dread renunciation to a dreadful power" (Harrison, p. 16), in nocturnal rites performed in an atmosphere of "chilly gloom" (Harrison), that was rendered...
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  • associated with cultic ritual at Delphi. Sophocles' Antigone, referring to nocturnal rites occurring on Mount Parnassus above Delphi, contains the invocation:...
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