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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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Nocturnal Ritual is a black metal project from Bergen, Norway, active since 2014. They continue Bergen's legendary tradition of black metal with ritualistic intensity.
Nocturnal Throne is a black metal project from Grebbestad, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project channels raw black metal from the picturesque Bohuslän coast.
Nocturnal Witch is a black/thrash metal band from Neustadt an der Orla in Thuringia, active since 2014. The band casts blackened thrash spells from the eastern German countryside.
Nocturnal Wrath is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Tula, Russia, active since 2003. Over two decades, they have evolved through black, death, doom, and industrial metal influences.
Nocturnalmorg is a depressive black metal project from Novosibirsk, Russia, active since 2014. They channel Siberian despair through the bleakest shades of DSBM.
Nocturnis is a black metal project from Offenburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2020. The project channels nocturnal black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Nocturnity is a symphonic gothic/black metal band from Sweden, active since 1999. One of the longer-running acts in Swedish gothic-tinged extreme metal, the band blends symphonic grandeur with black metal intensity.
Nocturnlands is a black/death metal band from Kostroma, Russia, active since 2011. They deliver extreme metal from this ancient Golden Ring city on the Volga.
Noctyr is a raw black metal project from Poland, formed in 2025. They embrace the lo-fi, uncompromising aesthetics of raw black metal.
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