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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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AMENRA “De zotte morgen” (written by Zjef Vanuytsel) (2020)
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Featured Doom Metal Album
With Fang and Claw (2025)
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No Belief is a power/doom metal band from Ceske Budejovice in southern Bohemia, active since 2016. The band fuses the grandeur of power metal with the crushing weight of doom from the historic Budweiser city.
Turin stoner/doom/groove metal and hard rock act formed in 2015, merging multiple heavy styles into a versatile sonic palette. Their eclectic approach draws from the riff-driven traditions of stoner, doom, and groove metal.
No Mans Land is a doom metal project from Limerick, Ireland, formed in 2025. They forge desolate, weighty soundscapes from this Shannon River city.
Italian black/doom metal project formed in 2022, merging black metal's atmospheric intensity with doom's crushing weight. Their fusion approach explores the darkest intersection of both genres.
Nocturnal Abbey is a doom/gothic metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2023. The band merges doom metal's crushing weight with gothic metal's dark elegance from Sweden's western coast.
Nocturnal I is a doom/death metal project from Osnabruck, formed in 2025. The project brings glacial doom-death to the northern German city near the Dutch border.
Nocturnal Weed is a stoner/sludge/doom metal band from Ulm, active since 2019. The band delivers haze-drenched doom from the Danube city where Einstein was born.
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.
Noekk is a progressive/doom metal and rock project from Bavaria, active since 2005. Named after the shape-shifting water spirit of Scandinavian folklore, the project crafts fluid, evolving compositions across two decades.
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