Metal content creator and musician Nik Nocturnal has announced that he is stepping away from his platform indefinitely after more than a decade of building one of the most prominent online communities in modern metal.
In a heartfelt statement shared this morning, May 21st, Nik said:
“After creating content for over 11 years, I’ve decided to take an indefinite break from uploading to focus on some important real-life stuff and figure out what’s next for me. Full explanation is up on my YouTube channel.
Thank you to everyone who has ever shown support to the channel or the amazing community we’ve built over the years. Whether you watched one video or stuck with me for a decade, you’ve been a part of something I’ll never forget. This channel changed my life, and so did many of you. For now, I’m stepping away to reconnect with myself and figure out what comes next.
As my parting gift, I leave you with a special 2000s metalcore throwback EP (with some modern spice) featuring legendary bands including: All That Remains, Darkest Hour, Caliban, Bury Tomorrow and The Ghost Inside entitled “The Lost Chapters” available to stream/download everywhere now.
Much love,
Nik”
His full video explanation is available on his YouTube channel. As for the parting gift, The Lost Chapters is now streaming everywhere and features collaborations with some of metalcore’s most celebrated names.
01 – “The Crimson Key”
02 – “Scarlet” (feat. Phil Labonte of All That Remains)
03 – “Your Curse Remains” (feat. Andreas Doerner of Caliban)
04 – “The Laws Of Time” (feat. John Henry of Darkest Hour)
05 – “I Return” (feat. Dan Winter-Bates of Bury Tomorrow)
06 – “Carry This Forever” (feat. Jonathan Vigil of The Ghost Inside)
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Not a follower of his content, but hopefully he figures out whatever’s bothering him and sorts out his problems.
Ya and. ?
Dave Burd ya you’re cool
That sucks. I love his content. I guess there’s always Bradley Hall….
Tyler Bowers
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YouTube fragility ,lol he’s still your president
Austin Charles Mitchell Isn’t he Canadian?
Bryan Martin yeah but he lives in Florida
Austin Charles Mitchell wtf are you talking about lol
Austin Charles Mitchell what the fuck does that have to do with anything. Or did you just want to inject pointless politics into everything
Austin Charles Mitchell
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Austin Charles Mitchell Put the pipe down lmao. What are you even on about?
Austin Charles Mitchell
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Austin Charles Mitchell its your whole personality weakbrain
Austin Charles Mitchell you’re a clown. I bet you stroke it to Ben Shapiro while he lies to your face 😉🤡🐑❄️🙄
Austin Charles Mitchell bitch
Austin Charles Mitchell did you comment on the wrong video?
Love him! Very sad 😭
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That’s awsome !! Just keep making music for our ear holes !! Do fun metal things here!!!
EP’S actually sick
Drops a sick ass EP and then rides into the sunset like a Fun Metal Things LEGEND.
Poor guy thought it was to hard to work a job and have a personal life like everyone else.
Joseph Pilarski why do people think that their livelihood requires you to go to an office from 9 to 5 in order to be validated? Must suck to see people actually enjoying what they do and making money from it.
Félix Veas he’s quitting because it’s to hard.
Joseph Pilarski Too*. He’s not quitting, but taking a break. You know, like anyone would after trying to make a living and not stopping at all.
Joseph Pilarski youre a dumbass
Justin Carreras you’re*
Joseph Pilarski punctuation doesn’t matter here. Sorry.
Félix Veas it’s okay man we got nothing but clowns in the comment section
Joseph Pilarski Have you tried to work a job for years without vacation?
No?
Then keep quiet and quit the bitching around.
Thank you for stfu.
Joseph Pilarski ooof the jealous energy here
Joseph Pilarski why you gotta be a douche for no reason at all?
Joseph Pilarski Too hard? Do you know how many hours go into making videos at the level and pace he does? Dude probably spent 50-60hrs a week working, and he’s been doing it for 11 years straight, also running a second podcast channel, and appearing in other people’s content weekly. He deserves a damn break, said he feels physically unhealthy.
Who cares. This dude sucks and his content is lame
Mike Vergona boomer energy
Mike Vergona Ok,go to sleep oldman nobody wants to hear your cranky remarks.
Mike Vergona not at all, Jimmy
Mike Vergona He’s a better musician than you’ll ever be
Mike Vergona born in the 70’s ✅, bald ✅, lead paint in their head? Cant confirm but id bet on it 💀
Mike Vergona BOOMER ALERT!! 🥳🥳 TIME FOR YOUR AFTERNOON NAP BUDDY
Mike Vergona dude definitely doesn’t suck
Mike Vergona and still makes more money than and your entire family combined 🥱
Mike Vergona I’m 40 and I like his content you just grumpy bud
Mike Vergona someone’s a little grumpy baby today
Mike Vergona you wish you were half the musician he is buddy 😂
Mike Vergona Well, 1.2 Million + subscribers say otherwise.
I hope there’s a song about Fable on there.
Womp womp he has a gorgeous brazilian girlfriend and makes thousands making youtube covers. Sign me the fuck up
Preston Carlisle get to it then
Preston Carlisle Paula Carregosa is womp wompable indeed
Preston Carlisle Sign yourself up and do it then, or are just waiting for someone else to build up 1.2m followers over a decade and just hand it to you? Youtubers at his level work 12-16hr days 6 to 7 days a week and he’s been going at it for 11 years now. He’s worked his ass off the point that he can afford to take some time off and work on his mental, and physical health and his relationships.
the lost chapters*
*of Mein Kampf
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Whos next rob scallon ?
His wife has his balls in a vice
It’s always hilarious how many metalheads have the “crabs in a bucket” mentality towards anyone who achieves a modicum of success in music. 😂 50 year old dudes still playing bar gigs acting like they contribute to, let alone actually influence the scene.
Eric Richards unfortunately this happens in every community throughout music, and just every community in general. The Internet is the only place where you can talk crazy to someone and not get punched in the fucking mouth for it. Those people are nothing but a bunch of pussies. Most of them hide behind no profile picture.
Eric Richards nah it’s just that there are countless musicians just below the surface that get overshadowed by clowns who chase clout and trends to appeal to the lowest common denominator. which is fine but like, the whole overproduced metalcore content creator circlejerk only exists to help promote what’s already popular anyway
Eric Richards you literally never see these guys shouting out anything genuinely underground or forward thinking and simple poppy stuff is cool too, straight up ignorant shit is fine too but the entire ecosystem Nik is a part of can’t even be bothered to write a hook that’s actually catchy or a breakdown that’s not derivative
Ryan Barrera he literally made an entire series of videos about checking out bands with less than a certain number of monthly listeners. All the way down to less that 10. A whole ass series devoted to giving exposure to very obscure bands. I wasn’t the biggest fan of his channel, but you should at least know what you are speaking on before being so confidently incorrect.
Luke Hawkinson thats why I didn’t even respond to them 😂
Eric RichardsWhat’s the “SCENE”?
Kumar Dushyant the metal scene. If you haven’t heard the term before its used to quickly encapsulate the entirety of a given topic. Things like the music, the drama, trends, news, aesthetics etc.
Eric RichardsI am well aware of the term, pal. I am also aware that such trends etc don’t exist anymore, now that rock/metal as a whole has been minimised to a non dominant genre.
Kumar Dushyant so you asked a question, to which you already knew the answer, so that you could get up on a soapbox claiming such terms are dead, as though you’re the arbiter of anything? 😂 You are a fuckin weirdo guy.
Eric Richards I have been saying this for years. It’s pathetic. I love metal in all it’s many forms and variations, but I can’t stand most of it’s fans
Eric it’s always hilarious when goobers like you run to the comments to point out criticism and bounce on dick.
Tyler Jurgens even more hilarious when weirdos like you get triggered by trivial comments on the internet. Guess that playing in bars comment struck a nerve 😂
YAY!!!!! No more shitty covers lol
Jordan Smith he’s good at covers. His own stuff sucks
Preston Singer man I disagree. Especially that top 10 statues that cried blood. It was just awful to me. I can’t speak on his own stuff lol never bothered
Jordan Smith that breaking benjamin cover was objectively terrible
Guess all the mouth breathers who watch his “reaction content” will have to find another obnoxious af YouTube guitarist to waste their lives forming a parasocial relationship with.
Good
Good. Take a break. Eat a cheeseburger, get some sleep. You look like shit.
Maybe YouTube can finally stop forcing this dead looking dude on my suggestion list.
Tj Forrester for real no shit huh?
Idek who this guy is
Shit sounds awful.
What is with all the fucking hate and viciousness towards this man in these comments? Because he’s successful and wants to take a step back for a bit? You don’t like him? Shut the fuck up and keep your negativity to yourself.
Cameron Xavier Black bro exactly my thoughts. People are worse and Worse every year on social media comments it’s insane
Saul Carranza I happen to like Nik Nocturnal and he’s a cool ass dude. But I would say this even if I didn’t like the person. Or I would say nothing and ignore it cuz I DON’T like that person. It’s like common courtesy has gone out the fucking window.
Cameron Xavier Black it’s incredible to me that bullying and wishing others’ downfalls is trending. 🤢
AS WE RISE I just don’t fucking understand it.
Thank God
Needs to rest his throat from sucking off Alex Terrible
Good riddance (just my opinion please don’t attack me)
Thank god
That name and photo… is this MySpace?
I mean I get the youtuber hate but damn nik was not that bad
Tyler Baars his content is lazy and horrible, but he seems like a decent dude
I doubt metalheads watch much outside of shit like this and Steve Terreberry, so they really don’t understand how awful their content is lol
Ugo Ouellet
Imagine talking shit about someone wanting to touch grass haha. Sounds like yall should look in the mirror.
What’s with all the clowns in the comment section
Hopefully able to put out new Termina album. They fucking kill it.
probably gonna have a baby or get married
Bro had a chance to bring back I the Breather and fucked it as far as I know an he coulda definitely helped that band come back
I am glad. His videos were getting so stale. I missed the reaction days.
I really hope he’s alright. It’s not uncommon for this to happen for things like depression or substance abuse. If he’s struggling, I certainly wish he gets better and healthier. His channel has always been great and he’s definitely a good dude. All the best Nik!