{"id":145695,"date":"2025-11-18T03:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T03:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T03:29:09","slug":"nik-nocturnal-returnals-after-six-months-away-drops-new-track-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/145695\/","title":{"rendered":"Nik Nocturnal Return(al)s After Six Months Away, Drops New Track “Collapse”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Roughly six months ago, prominent metal YouTuber and purveyor of \u201cfun metal things\u201d Nik Nocturnal<\/a> announced he was done. He was done doing the constant content rat race that he\u2019s partaken in for more than a decade. He wanted to take stock of his life and touch some grass for once. He was retired<\/a>. Well, until he suddenly wasn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

Over the weekend, Nocturnal explained his decision making in a video posted to his main channel featuring an electronic death core strack of his own making titled \u201cCollapse\u201d. You can check the track out below, but it\u2019s got headu fuckin riffs and Nocturnal\u2019s definitely been working on his channel.<\/p>\n

Fast forward a couple days later and Nocturnal was back on ihs page, announcing that he was returning to the content creation game, but with a better understanding of what he needed to do to avoid burnout in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wasn\u2019t in a good spot in my life. I needed to take time. I needed to reprioritize things for myself, for the people around me, just\u2026 everything. It was unhealthy. It wasn\u2019t sustainable the way I was going, and I needed to upgrade my mental capacity, my life, and just take a second, you know what I mean?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to talk a lot more about that on Twitch, probably right after this video is uploaded. Come hang out at twitch.tv\/nicknocturnal. We\u2019ll do some fun stuff and I\u2019ll explain a lot more. Literally the day after I left, I told Paula, \u2018Just throw my phone away.\u2019 I deleted Twitter first, and then we went to the park and fed squirrels. I think a lot of people assumed that when I left, I did something crazy or was partying or whatever. But no\u2014we were going to the park every day feeding squirrels.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

In his time away, he took care of his personal needs, as well as the needs of his loved ones. He found joy in things other than being constantly connected to the vw skills. That was different for me. Taking the time to properly learn a little bit of production, or how to mix, doing some URM courses, even learning Portuguese\u2026 And of course, vocals. I had so much fun learning vocals again. It reminded me of being a teenager, learning how to make content and use Adobe, Photoshop, and Premiere for the first time. That excitement of wonder built off pure curiosity.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter a few months, I noticed I wasn\u2019t necessarily taking a break from metal, but I was holding back. I didn\u2019t keep up with anything. I wanted to truly disconnect. Eventually I\u2019d open Spotify and see new releases\u2014new Despised Icon, and I\u2019d be like, \u2018Oh damn,\u2019 and get stoked again\u2026It was great to feel that sense of wonder again without it being tied to \u2018this is out, you need to react to it, everyone expects it.\u201d<\/p>\n

So yeah, metal got back one of its more prominent online voices. I\u2019d suggest you check out the videos below and get ready for some fun metal shit. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roughly six months ago, prominent metal YouTuber and purveyor of \u201cfun metal things\u201d Nik Nocturnal announced he was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-145695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}