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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Zaandam metalcore/groove/death metal act formed in 2015, fusing aggressive breakdowns with crushing rhythms and extreme vocal delivery. Their multi-genre approach draws power from three distinct heavy music traditions.
Nagasaki Birth Defect is a genre-defying extreme metal trio from Leicester, UK, self-described as fast/sludge/ambient/noise/prog/grind weirdos. Their 2024 album Friendship, Yay! delivers sixteen tracks of chaotic, provocatively titled grindcore and progressive metal.
Nahbom is a brutal death metal trio from Dijon, France, combining technical precision with crushing brutality across their self-titled debut EP. Their six-track release, recorded at R1 Studio, tackles weighty historical and natural subjects through relentless death metal.
Nahema is a death metal band from Otrokovice in the Moravia region of the Czech Republic, active since 2016. The band channels old-school death metal from the industrial heartland of eastern Czechia.
Nahemah is an Alicante-based band that evolved from symphonic black metal into progressive death metal since 2007. The project's transformation reflects a restless creative ambition from the Mediterranean coast of southeastern Spain.
Nahrayan is a sludge/death/doom metal band from Elche in southeastern Spain, active since 2002. Over two decades of crushing doom from the city of palm groves make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Valencia region.
Nahum is a death/thrash metal band from Ostrava, the Czech Republic's third-largest city, active since 2013. The band brings aggressive death-thrash crossover from the Silesian coal country of northeastern Moravia.
Nail is a death metal band from Augsburg, Bavaria, active since 1994. With three decades of activity, the band is one of the longest-running death metal acts in the Swabian region of southern Germany.
Nailed to Obscurity is a melodic doom/death metal band from Esens on Germany's North Sea coast, with a catalog spanning from 2007's 'Abyss' through 2025's 'Generation of the Void.' The band has achieved festival prominence with appearances at Rock Hard Festival and Sturmflut Festival, establishing them among Germany's premier doom-death acts.
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