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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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N R C S S S T is a black metal project from Vilnius, Lithuania, active since 2015. Their vowelless, fragmented name adds cryptic mystery to their dark underground output.
N.A.RAC. is a raw black metal project from Italy, formed in 2022. They deliver stripped-down, lo-fi black metal in the tradition of the rawest underground acts.
Black/death metal act from Varazdin in northern Croatia, formed in 2018 and bringing extreme darkness from the country's baroque heartland. Their fusion of black and death metal channels the most aggressive elements of both genres.
N.K.V.D. is an industrial black metal act from Montpellier, France, merging the mechanized intensity of industrial music with the raw aggression of black metal. Their sound creates a cold, oppressive atmosphere that draws on totalitarian imagery and sonic extremity.
Minneapolis's N.o.N.- drags doom and black metal through a noise-damaged filter, producing suffocating walls of sound from the Twin Cities underground. Their music sits at the intersection of despair and dissonance, impossible to pin down and harder to ignore.
Polish black metal and ambient project formed in 2014, whose name means 'At the Bottom,' channeling bleak atmospheric soundscapes through extreme metal foundations. Their dual approach bridges raw aggression and electronic introspection.
Na Hearadh is an atmospheric black metal project formed in Manchester, UK, in 2014. Their releases A Bheinn Anns An Athar and Teaglach, titled in Scottish Gaelic, channel dark, ambient-influenced black metal through a Celtic linguistic lens.
Na Zarot is a black metal project from Hamburg, active since 2021. The project contributes to Hamburg's diverse metal underground from Germany's largest port city.
Nijmegen black metal project formed in 2023, channeling raw darkness from the Netherlands' oldest city. Their atmospheric aggression draws from the genre's most primal underground traditions.
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