Narrative is a German black metal project active since 2008. The project takes a storytelling approach to black metal, weaving narratives through atmospheric extremity.

Narrator is a melodic death and folk metal band from Schweinfurt in Lower Franconia, active since 2022. The band fuses folk melodies with melodic death metal from the industrial city on the River Main.

Melodic black metal act from the village of Paterek, formed in 2016 and weaving melody through black metal's aggressive framework. Their approach balances atmospheric grace with the genre's inherent intensity.

Tarnowskie Góry sludge metal outfit formed in 2014, delivering crushing sonic weight from the Silesian voivodeship. Their oppressive approach channels the genre's most suffocating impulses.

Melodic doom/death metal act from the Adriatic city of Zadar formed in 2022, weaving sorrowful melodies through crushing heaviness. Their mournful sound channels the emotional weight of doom metal's most melancholic expressions.

Kyiv funeral/atmospheric doom metal act formed in 2012, crafting immersive, glacially-paced compositions that channel crushing heaviness through patient, monolithic structures. Their approach to the slowest and heaviest corner of doom metal demands devoted, contemplative listening.

Narrowminded is a brutal death metal band from Pleven, Bulgaria, active since 2016. The band brings punishing, no-holds-barred death metal brutality to the Bulgarian extreme music scene.

Narsil is a pagan metal band from the Muhldorf am Inn and Altotting area of Upper Bavaria, active since 2010. Named after the legendary sword of Tolkien's Numenorean kings, the band channels pagan themes through heavy metal from the Inn River valley.

Nartheling is an atmospheric black metal project from Yakutsk, Russia, formed in 2024. They emerge from the coldest major city on Earth, where winter temperatures plummet to minus fifty degrees.