![]() ![]() I realized that I kind of needed to take it seriously and that there needs to be a plan. The stuff at the beginning, it was horrifying, but it changed me. “I was just very excited and decided to start putting it on YouTube and go from there doing covers and stuff. Back then, I wrote music just for myself, then I released some of it on SoundCloud and having like one person comment, a real person, it blew my fucking mind. Maybe if I ever reached some crazy fun milestone, or like, some 10-year thing of me doing this, maybe I’ll just release a video where I just play all the demos and talk about stories and stuff like that, you know, some special thing. ![]() Just like, OG stuff I wrote that, like, no-one’s ever really heard.” They suck, but I have 100 songs on there. Like, I have so many old demos on a USB hard drive. “This was just like a passion I had on the side, just having fun writing music, and I just did it for myself. I was gonna do nothing music related, actually. So I thought, why not just do covers to help get the original music out there? That was literally the only vision. “I just want to release original music, and I was already learning songs. What took you from being a fan into doing something more serious? It’s been a very crazy journey, whether it’s like videos doing well, or meeting musicians and hanging out and talking to them or writing music with cool people. “It’s cool to talk with some of the people that I grew up listening to and just fans of their bands. I’ve never thought I’d ever talk to any of these people. That being said, a lot of the guests I’ve had on Twitch have been incredible. It will take too much time to reflect on what has happened because I’m always in go-go-go mode, working on what I have to plan next to keep things going. “Yeah, I mean, there’s been a good amount. I mean, technically, it was Avenged Sevenfold’s Unholy Confessions, but I was like, ‘wow, what is this? It’s horrifying, but I love it.’” V13 Cover Story 006 – Nik Nocturnal – Sep 26, 2022įast forward and by now, you’ve probably worked with most of the bands that inspired you to take up this career… “I think it had to have been probably As I Lay Dying’s ‘Through Struggle’ – that was kind of my first intro to metalcore. What was the song or band that gave you that holy fuck lightbulb moment? That was technically my intro, but I always thought, ‘oh, what’s this scary demon screaming music stuff?’”Ī familiar story. I started off with bands like Alexisonfire, As I Lay Dying, Underoath and stuff like that. “I was with my cousin all the time, and he would just have heavier music when we were younger. ![]() What about music? What was your gateway into heavy music? I like messing with everything, but I really got into MySpace.” Nik Nocturnal: “I came at the end of MySpace and used some of the earlier stuff like MSN and probably had a few YouTube channels as well. Thanks for your time, Nik like I said earlier, I’d like to do a deep dive into your story, starting with the early days… ![]() Recently, we spoke to Nik about his life, his gateway into heavy music and, of course, his thoughts on the state of the music industry and how the pandemic forced a change in mindset for the entire industry. That’s before we’ve even started on one of his numerous musical project Termina. One of the success stories of the internet revolution has been Nik Nocturnal, a man who has gone from releasing covers to recording reaction videos on a whole raft of subjects to working with some of the biggest names in modern metal. While it now seems like everyone is a content creator these days, some have managed to turn it into a full-time career rather than just releasing videos recorded in their kitchen ranting about how the new Limp Bizkit album sucks. With gigs and touring off-limits, bands, artists and content creators turned to the internet to get their work out there. Love it or hate it, but over the past couple of years, the landscape has shifted for the music industry. ![]()
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