Névoa is an avant-garde black metal band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2014. Their name — Portuguese for 'mist' — captures the obscured, atmospheric quality of their experimental black metal.

Névrose is a black/death metal band from Metz, France, active since 2014. Their sound fuses the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the aggression of death metal from the industrial northeast of France.

Névrosisme is a black/death metal band from the Pays de la Loire region of France, active since 2013. The band blends black and death metal traditions from the western French countryside.

Nëwsün is a stoner metal and rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers heavy, fuzzy stoner grooves from the west of Scotland.

Níðstöng is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2020. Named after the Norse 'nithing pole' — a cursing stake — they channel ancient Scandinavian malice.

Nizhe is a death metal band from Prague, active since 2020, with a name rendered in both Czech and Russian Cyrillic script. The bilingual identity reflects a cross-cultural approach to death metal.

Nóttcarv is a melodic black/death metal band from Klaipėda, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They bring Scandinavian-influenced extreme metal from Lithuania's major Baltic Sea port.

Nôidva is a Finnish black metal band whose 2023 album Lappish Shatanism draws deeply on Lappish culture, forest mysticism, and shamanic traditions. The four-piece weaves atmospheric and folkloric elements into their black metal, creating a sound rooted in the spiritual landscape of northern Finland.

No Frills is a progressive/thrash metal band from Madrid, active since 2018. The band strips metal to its essential elements with a raw fusion of progressive and thrash from the Spanish capital.