2008-04-14 Studio update: The pick-ups for guitars and keys are done and we’re making progress in putting down the drums. Henrik has finished off seven of the twelve tracks and begun working on the eight as we speak. Up next is recording bass and start to work more intense with the melodies. Linus Abrahamson has made a visit to the studio aswell and has begun to write guitarsolos for the album. 2008-03-16 Studio update: Well, a little update for our most anticipating friends and fans. We’ve finished off all guitars and keys for the album. All we need from those instruments now is some pick-ups—which always happens more or less. We’ve arranged the last song, The dark shades of black, and it’s runtime stopped at just over six minutes. We might squeeze a second chorus to it at the end, which means it’s going to extend some, but no decision has been made yet. Henrik is banging drums to the tracks now and has finished off four, working on the fifth. 2008-02-26 Studio update: Sometimes things take awkward turns. For a couple of days our ears have been struggling with Implicated by circumstance so we solved it by first halving it, then Henrik wrote a magical new piece to it, and the stuff we took out of it now forms a new track! :) It’s named D.I.D. But that’s Nocturnal Alliance, brothers and sisters, we’re progressive even when we aren’t playing… 2008-02-23 Studio update: All rhythm guitars and keys are almost in place. We still miss some odd spots here and there but we believe all initial guitars and keys will be recorded by the end of next month. Henrik has begun putting drums down and has finished off Shine, Random pain and The meaning of pain. Parallell with the drumming we expect to start recording bass shortly, but the main thing right now is the drums. 2008-02-03 Great news for all Mp3-lovers. Today we’ve opened an account on isound.com and all Nocturnal Alliance’s released tracks is available for download—and of course, a pre- listen. Check out this address: www.isound.com/nocturnal_alliance_se. You can also buy our tracks, or entire albums, from the player to the right. The only thing you need to do is to sign up at isound.com which is really simple, and gives you access to a lot of other great music! Enjoy! Oh, if you want the ”real” stuff, just surf into our store. Thanks! 2008-02-03 Studio update: We’ve put down guitars for The meaning of pain and With and some initial keys. We’ve yet to arrange some of the stuff but we’re pleased with the result. And sometimes strange things happen, check this out; today we found an unfinished track by Henrik which is too good not to put on the new album. This means that there’s going to be 11 tracks in total on the album. It is going under the workname Within a lie. Sort of a bonustrack that works both ways; we totally forgot we had it! :) It was originally written for What makes that evil tick…?. 2008-01-22 Studio update: Guitars, keys and drums are all finished for our eighth track, Shine. Henrik has also put drums to Random pain and 6th sense. We’ve also added a few guitar- parts to Implicated by circumstance and Henrik has worked out some more parts for The dark shades of black. We have two more tracks to record from scratch; The meaning of pain and With. 2008-01-05 Studio update: We’ve recorded guitars and some of the keys to our seventh track for the next album, 6th sense. We estimate we need three more songs to make the album complete, two of them are already written but not recorded yet. The tenth track is yet to be done, but we have some ideas… Nocturnal ideas… 2007-12-31 Studio update: Last day of 2007. We were in the studio last night and started/continued recordings of our fifth and sixth track for the new album. The cuts are named Implicated by circumstance and The dark shades of black. Both tracks are brand new tracks and not something from the past. Drums are beginning to find their way onto the other four tracks as well and we are nearly finished putting guitars and keys on them. We wish you a Happy New Nocturnal Year! And for you who hasn’t bought our album What makes that evil tick…? yet we hope you’ll find the courage to do so. We are very proud of it and think it deserves to be in your collection of rare progressive, heavy Nocturnal metal! The album got a new great review the other day on the polish metal-site www.rockarea.eu, 8,99 out of 10! ;) Stay healthy and see you next year! 2007-12-04 Check out some pictures of the new studio in which the nocturnal alliance dwell nowadays, follow this link. 2007-11-18 Ooops! Time is due for some news, right? Sorry if we let anyone down, but we’ve been working our asses off—especially Henrik—to get the new studio ready. Now it is finished apart from some details and we’ve crawled back into it last night to do some recordings. We did some guitarwork on the fourth song, How I’m dead, which is a track Micke wrote back in ’98. It has undergone some changes to fit the Nocturnal Alliance sound and we don’t think any NA-fans will be disappointed… Soon we hope to get some pictures up on our site from our new studio… It rocks! 2007-08-09 We have now tore down the C. Oak Studio and has started to rebuild it to suite us better. Despite a few bruises things are going ahead as planned. As you can see, Nocturnal Alliance have in the mean time moved into a new shell. Hope you like it! 2007-08-06 The review from metalmundus.pl has been translated and you will find it on top of the ’reviews’-page. 2007-08-02 Studio update: We have now recorded the third song for The 3rd phase of destruction. It’s called I see myself dead. Soon we’re about to rebuild the studio so we’re expecting to be down for a few weeks during that time. In the meantime we can announce that we’ve put us up on Myspace. The address is www.myspace.com/nocturnalalliancesweden. Check it out. We’d like to thank Piotr Spyra for his assistance. We’ve also recieved our first review of What makes that evil tick…? To our great joy metalmundus.pl gave us 8,75 out of 10 for our work on that album. Satisfying indeed. The review is in polish but we expect to get a translated version to put up on our website. 2007-07-11 Finally we have What makes that evil tick…? in our hands and we are ready to take orders. 2007-07-01 We are still waiting to get the albums back from Pregal Media Records who are printing What makes that evil tick…? for us. In the meantime you might like to know that we’ve recorded guitars and some keyboards on two new tracks for the forthcoming album, the title-track The 3rd phase of destruction and Random pain. Awaiting What makes that evil tick…? you can now read the lyrics for the songs on that album on our lyric-page. 2007-06-03 We’ve put up a mix of the eight songs included on What makes that evil tick…? here. 2007-05-26 We are proud to announce that What makes that evil tick…? is finished! In a few days the album is going to be sent for printing. We can only take pre-orders at the moment, as the printjob is done elsewhere we can not promise delivery on a certain date at this point. For you who have been paciently awaiting our follow-up on Dark voices might be glad to know that we a couple of days ago started to work with our third album, entiteled: The 3rd phase of destruction. We’re working on several ideas and songs written during the workprocess of What makes that evil tick…? And we got some more great news about the new recording… Oh, shit, I gotta go… See ya! ;) 2007-04-21 Studio update: We are finished mixing What makes that evil tick…?. The time of the production lengthened from what we originally thought, but we think it might be worth the wait…