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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Nocturnal Funeral is an Italian black metal project active since 2014. They conduct midnight rites through somber, atmospheric black metal.
Nocturnal Grace is a black/symphonic metal band from Sarno near Salerno, Italy, active since 2015. They pair orchestral elegance with black metal darkness from the Campanian hinterland.
Nocturnal Hell is a black/thrash metal band from Pontevedra in Galicia, active since 2008. The band has delivered nearly two decades of blackened thrash fury from the Rias Baixas coast of northwestern Spain.
Nocturnal Misanthropy is a black metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2019. The project channels misanthropic fury through raw black metal from the capital of southern France.
Nocturnal Nightmare is a depressive black metal project from Aneby, Sweden, formed in 2020. The project explores the darkest emotional depths through bleak, harrowing depressive black metal from rural Småland.
Nocturnal Obeisance is a black metal project from Zlin in eastern Moravia, active since 2020. The project pays homage to the night through ceremonial black metal from the shoe-manufacturing capital of the Czech Republic.
Nocturnal Pestilence is a symphonic epic black metal band from Prague, active since 2016. The project fuses orchestral grandeur with epic black metal storytelling from the Gothic spires of the Czech capital.
Nocturnal Premonition is a black metal project from Kungsbacka, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers atmospheric black metal from the Halland coast south of Gothenburg.
Nocturnal Reaper is a black/speed metal and hardcore band from London, UK, formed in 2024. Their sound fuses the velocity of speed metal and black metal with hardcore's raw aggression.
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