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Featured Album
Drag Me to Hell (2021)
Featured Doom Metal Album
De Doorn (2022)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Drowned in my Loneliness (2008)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Thunderfist Chronicles (Deluxe Version) (2025)
05/26 @ Burton Cummings Theatre, Winnipeg
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Nightporter is a power/thrash metal band from Bremen, active since 2017. The band fuses power metal melody with thrash metal velocity from the Hanseatic city-state in northwestern Germany.
Nightprowler is a heavy metal band from Dusseldorf, active since 2015. The band stalks the night with classic heavy metal from the Rhineland.
Nightqueen is a symphonic power metal band from Genk, Belgium, formed in 2017. The band brings grandiose orchestral arrangements and soaring vocals to the power metal tradition from Belgium's Limburg province.
NightQuest is a power/progressive metal band from Pančevo, Serbia, active since 2018. They deliver epic, technically ambitious metal from this Vojvodina city near Belgrade.
Nightrage was founded in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2000 by guitarist Marios Iliopoulos and guitarist Gus G, later relocating the project to Gothenburg to more directly absorb the Swedish melodic death metal scene. Their debut Sweet Vengeance (2003) featured guest vocals from At the Gates singer Tomas Lindberg and established Nightrage as a high-caliber entry in the melodic death genre. The band has continued releasing albums consistently through the 2010s and into the 2020s, most recently with Abyss Rising (2022).
Nightrealm is an atmospheric death/doom metal project from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2022. The band crafts heavy, brooding compositions that merge the weight of death metal with the sorrowful pacing of doom.
Nightreaper is a heavy metal band from Saint-Marcel, France. The band delivers classic heavy metal with raw energy from the French underground.
Nightride is a heavy metal band from Liege, Belgium, formed in 2023, with their release 'Wherever Leads the Ride' featuring tracks like 'Forever Won't Last' and 'Insurgents.' The band carries the spirit of classic heavy metal through the industrial heartland of Wallonia.
Makiivka black metal act formed in 2013, channeling atmospheric darkness from the Donetsk Oblast. Their sustained output from a conflict-affected area speaks to extreme metal's resilience.
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