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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Never My Queen is a sludge metal, crossover, and hardcore punk band from Berlin, active since 2011. The band fuses sludge heaviness with punk attitude from the German capital's DIY scene.
Neverseer is a sludge/doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The band delivers crushing, heavy doom and sludge metal from the Scottish capital.
Nexus Clandestine is a doom/sludge metal band from Landshut in Lower Bavaria, active since 2014. The band channels crushing doom and sludge from the medieval Bavarian city on the River Isar.
Nightslug is a sludge metal band from the Hagen-Dusseldorf area, active since 2011. The band delivers crushing, low-and-slow sludge from the industrial Ruhr-Rhine corridor.
Nihilistic Vision is a groove/sludge metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2018. The band fuses the rhythmic heaviness of groove metal with sludge metal's abrasive textures from the Swedish capital.
Nikander is a sludge metal band from Brno, Czech Republic, active since 2016. The band delivers heavy, downtempo sludge from the beer-soaked cellars of Moravia's cultural center.
Cherkasy sludge metal act formed in 2016, whose Japanese name meaning 'misanthropy' signals the disaffected worldview behind their crushing sonic weight. Their cross-cultural naming adds an unusual dimension to their oppressive sound.
Nisshin Maru is a sludge metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. Named controversially after the Japanese whaling ship, they deliver marine-weight sludge.
Nitimur in Vetitum is a death/doom/sludge metal band from Falun, Sweden, formed in 2021. Named after the Latin phrase meaning 'we strive for the forbidden,' the band crafts crushing extreme metal from the historic mining city of Dalarna.
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