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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nebelheim is an avant-garde black metal project from Novy Jicin in the Moravia region, active since 2022. The project pushes black metal into experimental territory from the northeastern Czech countryside.
Nefarious Mash is a one-man avant-garde black metal project from Grenoble, France, created by classical-contemporary composer Eddy Jaber. The 2022 debut In Memory of Your Hopes, released on Wormwholedeath, combines brutal black metal power with avant-garde harmonic complexity across nine expansive tracks.
Nekromorphine is an avant-garde black metal project from Portugal, active since 2015. They push black metal into experimental territory with unconventional compositions.
Neoandertals is an avant-garde and brutal death metal band from Otepaa, Estonia, active since 2004. The project's two-decade exploration of experimental brutal death metal makes them one of the most adventurous extreme acts in the Baltic region.
Neon Scaffold is an avant-garde metal project from Sergiyev Posad, Russia, active since 2020. They push experimental boundaries from this Golden Ring city famous for its Trinity Lavra monastery.
Neuronaut is an avant-garde metal project from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project pushes the boundaries of metal with experimental and unconventional approaches to heavy music.
Nocte Obducta is an avant-garde black metal band from Mainz, active since 2003. Over two decades, the band has pushed black metal into experimental, avant-garde territory from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital.
Noirum is a Czech avant-garde black metal project active since 2021. The project ventures into experimental terrain, bending black metal conventions with avant-garde sensibilities.
Nox Mortis is an avant-garde gothic/doom metal band from Gotha in Thuringia, active since 1996. Nearly three decades of genre-bending doom and gothic metal make them one of the most enduring extreme acts in eastern Germany.
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