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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Noctum is a black metal project from Logrono in La Rioja, formed in 2025. The project brings black metal to Spain's premier wine-producing region.
Purmerend black/death metal act formed in 2020, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from North Holland. Their fusion approach channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
Noctura is a death/black metal band from Wurzburg in Lower Franconia, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal darkness from the baroque university city on the Main.
Nocturn is a black metal project from Barcelona, active since 2018. The project delivers nocturnal black metal from the cosmopolitan Catalan capital.
Nocturnal Abyss is a black metal project from Brunna, Sweden, active since 2013. The project has spent over a decade creating dark, underground black metal from the Stockholm area.
Nocturnal Blasphemies is a black metal project from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2021. The project channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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Nocturnal Chalice is a black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 2016. The band delivers raw black metal darkness from Scotland's largest city.
Death/black metal act from Peristeri in the greater Athens area, active since 2012 and merging the guttural weight of death metal with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach channels the most aggressive tendencies of both genres.
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