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No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
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Necroslut is a black/death metal band from Tampere, active since 2020. The band brings provocative extremity to Tampere's thriving extreme metal community.
Necrosophia is a Belgian black metal and noise project active since 2016. The project merges the rawness of black metal with the abrasive textures of noise, occupying an experimental fringe of Belgium's extreme music underground.
Stockholm black metal act formed in 2018, channeling atmospheric darkness and occult menace from Sweden's capital. Their sound draws from the genre's most ritualistic traditions.
Necrosorth is a death/black metal band from the Usti nad Labem and Litomerice area of northern Bohemia, active since 2011. The band channels extreme metal ferocity from the Elbe River valley of northwestern Czech Republic.
Necrosphera is a symphonic black metal band from Le Creusot, France, whose 2014 album Linguam Autem Diaboli fuses black and death metal with symphonic elements across nine tracks of blasphemous extremity. Their sound explores the darker reaches of black/death metal fusion.
Necrostench is a black metal project from Tver, Russia, formed in 2025. Their putrid name signals the reeking darkness of their sound.
Necroster is a black metal project from Várpalota, Hungary, active since 2018. They forge darkness from this small city between the Bakony hills and Lake Balaton.
Hilversum black metal project formed in 2020, channeling raw darkness from the broadcast media capital of the Netherlands. Their atmospheric intensity adds an unlikely geographic dimension to Dutch black metal.
Necrosynthesys is a doom/gothic/black metal project from Eckernforde on the Baltic coast of Schleswig-Holstein, active since 2022. The project blends three dark metal traditions from a small seaside town overlooking the Baltic Sea.
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