| "The audience were mesmerised for NoKTuRNL's entire performance and rightly so. A subtle blend of powerhouse rock, ballads and poignant lyrics blended with a genuine rapport with the audience to produce a show that punters are unlikely to forget about in a hurry. The set drifted seamlessly through an emotional minefield. This is a band who wear their hearts on their sleeves and who's music comes from their soul. And they produce some damn fine tunes. Couple that with an uncanny ability to read their audience and you have all the ingredients of what rock is supposed to be. If the punters weren't shaking fists to 'Nevamend' they were grooving along to 'No Respect'. If they can survive the insane glitz and glamour of stardom they may well be this generation's Midnight Oil. - Tracey Heffernan (review of live show at the Gypsy Bar Canberra) BMA magazine 6.04.01 |
| "…this is one real well oiled unit that draws on an incredibly diverse range of influences for an impressively varied sound." - Frank Moon, Beat magazine 21.2.01 |
| "…their honest and frenetic live performances have earned them the title of one of Australia's hottest bands." - Robyn Doreian, Rock Sound magazine UK, March 2001 |
| "NoKTuRNL first say the light of day in late 1996, at a festival in Alice Springs. The audience was immediately taken by their hard edge and apparent inability to decide between upper - and lower - case lettering. Their choice of the "heavy metal K" instead of the more usual "C" showed their influences, while the total abandonment of the "A" revealed their intent - to make a new musical form combining rap, metal and rock. Innovative stuff." - Ralph magazine October 2001 |
| "Haterz…is very fuckin' good" - Tract Magazine 19.07.01 |
| "Meaty, fully chunked and angst - ridden hip hop metal from these Northern Territory rockers. Sure, it's reflective of a style that has its home in the good ol' US of A, but the attack here is so utterly genuine you'd reckon they owned the genre. Well chunked." Richard Kwong Time Off (review of Haterz) 15.5.01 |
| "Haterz is as furious as it is ferocious….NoKTuRNL serve up another knockout single in the tradition of Neva Mend and Same Old Song and sound damn fine about it too." Rip it Up 24.05.01 |
| "NoKTuRNL mark their territory as the quintessential Australian 21st century band." Patrick Donovan The Age 6.10.00 |
| "Australia's most adventurous rock band by far…" Beat 11.10.00 |
| "It's always a mixed selection of fused styles and state of the nation address from…NoKTuRNL, with Unveiled being their finest collection yet…NoKTuRNL cement themselves as one of the most diverse and exciting bands this country has to offer…NoKTuRNL have put togethor what could be single of the year, as well as certainly being the highlight of their career to date." Rip It Up 12.10.00 |
| "As if this Alice Springs band hadn't already announced themselves as a musical force, their new five song collection (Unveiled) reveals an even greater depth to their talent" |
| " Same Old Song is the real pearler here with angry vocals driven by a crunchy as fuck guitar riff" Hype 2.11.00 |
| "The title track (Unveiled) is a bluesy psychedelic monster that blows you away at top volume…" On Dit 16.10.00 |
| "Socially aware and responsible…(NoKTuRNL)…could hold it's own against any of the current American heroes of the genre." Forte Magazine 19.10.00 |
| "Aria nominated NoKTuRNL, relative newcomers to the scene, have a lot to say. A social commentary with attitude comes in the 'hip hop metal core' form of Same Old Song, the lead single lifted from their second EP 'Unveiled'." Music Network |
| "Go forth and destroy the awkward caucasia - Public Enemy's nice but at last there's an Aussie band singing about the shit we live in. Muchos gracias." - Jarod Watt Editor - Entertainment Guide |
| "NoKTuRNL
could moonlight as bouncers, so driving is the music and hard - edged
their attitude…Unrelenting, unsettling music that demands to
be listened to - or turned off." |
| "NoKTuRNL are all raw power, both musically and lyrically" - Big Day Out 00 CD liner notes |
| "The awesome NoKTuRNL are one of the most exciting and fresh live acts around, mixing up hip hop and guitar crunch action to great effect. With real presence and some fairly hard hitting lyrical twists, NoKTuRNL look like they believe in what they're saying." - Dougal Robertson Inpress |
| "...the most exciting set"...( of the Melbourne Big Out)..."came from the new Alice Springs' band Nokturnl", "…these guys have a dynamic sound and something to say…" Patrick Donovan The Melbourne Age |
| "NokTuRNL seem to relish the power of sound...Songs like Sage, Up the River …are a mixture of mellow and menace." Kelly Pellegrini Drum Media Sydney |
| "NoKTuRNL showed why they are one of the leading lights in Australian heavy music at the moment. Although incorporating elements of blues and hip hop into the mix, these guys are at their best when they unleash their full metal fury. Sorbz's dynamite slap bass fused perfectly with the twin guitar attack of Craig T. and DaMieN." Kris Swales Firehorse Publications |
| "This is honest real tough and pumpin'. A slick yet edgy blender - bender of rock, metal, hip - hop and more - yet it all comes off as if utterly of the cuff." Time Off |
| "Australia's hottest new band know that it's not enough to be funky. On this effervescent first single (Neva Mend), the buzzsaw guitars, lucid basslines, Public Enemy style alarm loop and Craig's fast free flowing street - smart rapping create such a kick ass sound, they can't stop whooping 'Yeah' in triumph." Patrick Donovan The Age |
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"....NoKTuRNL is providing new ways of mapping the history and contemporary moods of the country" "...NoKTuRNL takes us beyond the existing boundaries of race relations and seeks to place us into a space where acknowledgement and taking responsibility begin.." "...in a time when the Prime Minister has exercised his choice, resulting in his refusal to apologise for the history he chooses to deny, and when Reconciliation looks increasingly like a colonialist tool of government, aimed at encouraging the politics of denial, NoKTuRNL's lyrics remind us that we cannot escape the past, but we have to confront it..." "...NoKTuRNL
deliberately destabilises the concept of Aboriginal rock.." "...Through their lyrics and sounds questions of identity, racism, history and the present are dealt with, in ways which can be described as providing a contemporary map of the country" "...Their songs reinforce knowledges and ways in which land and contestation of imposed histories and identities remain central to the continuing struggle to redress colonial dipossession of land and rights." - Dr Liz Reed Monash University |
| "NoKTuRNL are full tilt in your face metal/blue/hip hop/core" Michael Smith Drum Media Sydney |
| NoKTuRNL's music is the flava of a new era when the world can see and hear much clearer" |
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