Negative Core Project is a metalcore band from Bucharest, Romania, active since 2012. They bring modern heavy music from the Romanian capital.

Nekonomicon is a metalcore/power metal band from Oslo, Norway, formed in 2021. Their cat-pun name — merging 'neko' with 'Necronomicon' — brings playful humor to their heavy music.

Nepumuc is a symphonic death metal and metalcore band from Albisheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2016. The band fuses orchestral death metal with metalcore structure from the Palatinate wine country.

Nereid is a death/metalcore/thrash metal band from Termoli in Molise, Italy, active since 2017. Named after the sea nymphs of Greek mythology, they bring aquatic aggression from the Adriatic coast.

Nero Doctrine is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Greifswald on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive melodeath from the historic Hanseatic university town.

Nesaia is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Naumburg in Saxony-Anhalt, active since 2016. The band blends Scandinavian melodeath influence with modern metalcore from the medieval wine town on the Saale River.

Nesqueek is a metalcore band from Balen in Belgium's Antwerp province, active since 2017. The band delivers breakdowns and melodic hooks characteristic of modern metalcore from the Flemish Campine region.

Neurotic Machinery is a band from Tachov in western Bohemia that has evolved dramatically since 2007, shifting from melodic death metal and metalcore to progressive and post-metal. The project's stylistic journey reflects an ambitious refusal to be confined by genre boundaries.

Neverborne is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from London, UK, active since 2005. Their sound bridges the melodic precision of Scandinavian death metal with the driving energy of British metalcore.