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Featured Album
Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
Featured Sludge Metal Album
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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Nero or the Fall of Rome is a black/doom metal band from Verona, Italy, active since 2020. Their historically evocative name channels the imperial collapse into their dark, weighty compositions.
Nethervault is a stoner/doom metal band from Madrid, active since 2021. The band channels subterranean doom from the Spanish capital.
Slovak sludge/doom metal project launched in 2025, delivering crushing sonic weight from the country's underground. Their oppressive approach channels the most suffocating traditions of both genres.
Neurasthenia is a doom/death metal project from Helsinki, formed in 2025. The project's name referencing the nervous exhaustion condition channels physical and mental depletion through crushing doom.
Neuropolis is a death/doom metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2019. They build crushing sonic cityscapes from the former imperial capital.
Neurotic Doom is a death/doom metal band from Hønefoss, Norway, active since 2020. They deliver anxious, crushing heaviness from this small Buskerud town northwest of Oslo.
Nevelhel is a black/doom metal band from Belgium's Limburg province, active since 2013. The project's name evokes the Norse realm of mist and darkness, fitting for their fusion of black metal bleakness with doom metal's crushing weight.
Neverseer is a sludge/doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The band delivers crushing, heavy doom and sludge metal from the Scottish capital.
New Mexican Doom Cult is a doom/stoner metal band from Gävle, Sweden, formed in 2018. Despite the name's southwestern American allusion, the band delivers crushing doom and stoner metal from the Norrland coast.
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