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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Wild Child (2023)
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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Noctum is a black metal project from Logrono in La Rioja, formed in 2025. The project brings black metal to Spain's premier wine-producing region.
Purmerend black/death metal act formed in 2020, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from North Holland. Their fusion approach channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
Noctura is a death/black metal band from Wurzburg in Lower Franconia, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal darkness from the baroque university city on the Main.
Nocturn is a black metal project from Barcelona, active since 2018. The project delivers nocturnal black metal from the cosmopolitan Catalan capital.
Nocturna is a symphonic metal band from Seville, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of orchestral metal from the Andalusian capital have established the band as a fixture of the Spanish symphonic scene.
Nocturnal Abattoir is an Irish death metal project active since 2012. Their name — meaning 'slaughterhouse by night' — sets a grim, visceral tone.
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 Abyss is a black metal project from Brunna, Sweden, active since 2013. The project has spent over a decade creating dark, underground black metal from the Stockholm area.
Nocturnal Blasphemies is a black metal project from Herne in the Ruhr Valley, active since 2021. The project channels blasphemous black metal from the industrial heartland of North Rhine-Westphalia.
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