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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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Nekrokraft is a black/death/thrash metal band from Linköping, Sweden, active since 2012. The band delivers a ferocious three-pronged extreme metal assault combining black, death, and thrash traditions.
Athens-based death/thrash metal act formed in 2025, representing the newest wave of extreme metal emerging from the Greek capital. Their fusion of death metal heaviness with thrash velocity carries forward a tradition deeply rooted in the Hellenic scene.
Nekromatics is a black/death/symphonic metal band from Almada across the Tagus from Lisbon, formed in 2025. They combine multiple extreme metal elements with orchestral ambition.
Knurów death/thrash metal act formed in 2018, delivering aggressive riffing from the Silesian industrial town. Their dual-genre assault channels both death metal brutality and thrash velocity.
Nekron is a blackened death metal band from Nuremberg, active since 2013. The band delivers scorching blackened death from Franconia's medieval fortress city.
Nekropolis is a death/black metal band from Spiez in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland, active since 2013. The band brings extreme metal ferocity to a picturesque lakeside town in the Swiss Alps.
Nekropulse is a black/death metal project from Bavaria, active since 2018. The project delivers pulsating extremity through a fusion of black and death metal from Germany's largest state.
Nekrosity is a death metal band from Uddevalla, Sweden, active since 2013. The band delivers punishing death metal from the Bohuslän coast of western Sweden.
Nekroskop is a black metal/crust punk/death metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2013. The band fuses extreme metal aggression with the raw energy of crust punk from Sweden's third-largest city.
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