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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Wyszków melodic black/death metal act launched in 2024, weaving melodic sophistication through extreme metal's aggressive framework from the Masovian voivodeship. Their fusion approach channels the emotive range of both genres.
Naumachy is a progressive/melodic black metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, formed in 2024. The band pushes Greek black metal into progressive and melodic territory.
Naurrakar is a Prague-based black metal band active since the mid-2000s, exploring lyrical themes of misanthropy, nihilism, and satanism. Their releases 'Uranfaust' and 'Dopisy o Zle' channel hatred and nuclear apocalyptic visions through uncompromising Czech black metal.
Alingsås black metal act formed in 2009, channeling atmospheric darkness from the western Swedish lake city. Their sustained presence speaks to the genre's deep roots across Sweden.
Nauznik is a black metal project from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. They contribute to Moscow's prolific underground black metal output.
Nauð is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2021. Named after the rune of necessity and constraint, they channel the harsh Icelandic environment into their sound.
Navja is a black metal project from Reinfeld in Schleswig-Holstein, active since 2005. Two decades of output from northern Germany's rural countryside have cemented the project as a long-running fixture of German black metal.
Navjarmaahr is a black/pagan metal band from Lyudinovo in the Kaluga Oblast, Russia, active since 2012. They weave Slavic pagan themes into their extreme metal from this small industrial town.
Navtepheret is a black metal project from Kruševac, Serbia, active since 2014. They channel darkness from this central Serbian city that was once a medieval capital.
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