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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
De Doorn (2021)
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Nefeshim is a progressive melodic death metal band from Cork, Ireland, formed in 2025. Their Hebrew-derived name adds spiritual depth to their technically ambitious sound.
Nefrail is a melodic death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2022. They channel Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Hungarian capital.
Ustroń death metal act formed in 2012, delivering brutal extremity from the Silesian Beskids mountain resort town. Their alpine setting provides an unusual backdrop for punishing aggression.
Negativ is a death metal band from Bautzen in Saxony, active since 2016. The band brings death metal intensity to the Sorbian cultural heartland of Upper Lusatia.
Negative Creed is a death metal band from Hunxe in the Lower Rhine region, active since 2016. The band channels nihilistic death metal from the flatlands of northwestern North Rhine-Westphalia.
Negative IQ is a French death metal/goregrind act formed in 2025. The project delivers raw, extreme blasts of goregrind-infused death metal from the French underground.
Lviv death/doom metal act with folk influences, formed in 2012 and merging crushing heaviness with traditional melodic elements from western Ukraine's cultural capital. Their folk-inflected approach adds a distinctive Ukrainian character to the doom/death tradition.
Negative Reaction is a melodic death metal band from Murmansk, Russia, active since 1996. Three decades of activity from above the Arctic Circle make them one of the northernmost and most enduring metal acts in Russia.
Negative Voice is a melodic death/doom metal band from Shilovo in Ryazan Oblast, Russia, active since 2013. They craft sorrowful compositions from this small town southeast of Moscow.
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