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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nameless Void is a black metal project from Crema in Lombardy, Italy, active since 2019. They channel existential emptiness into atmospheric black metal from this small city between Milan and Cremona.
Zagreb-based black/death metal and crust act formed in 2016, merging extreme metal ferocity with punk's raw D-beat energy. Their triple-genre fusion creates a sound both savage and politically charged.
Namrasit is a black/death metal project from Papenburg in the Emsland region of Lower Saxony, active since 2013. The project channels extreme metal darkness from one of Germany's northernmost canal cities.
Namtar is a black metal project from Montblanc in Catalonia, active since 2016. Named after the Sumerian god of death, the project channels ancient mythological darkness from the medieval walled town near Tarragona.
Namtaru is a black/death metal band from Trento in northern Italy, active since 2018. Named after the Mesopotamian deity of death, they bring ancient malice to their extreme metal.
Nan Dungortheb is a German pagan black metal project active since 2018. Named after the valley of dreadful death in Tolkien's Silmarillion, the project fuses pagan themes with black metal intensity.
Taking their name from the dark forest of Tolkien's First Age, San Luis Obispo's Nan Elmoth craft black metal steeped in literary mythology and cold atmosphere. Since 2014 they've been one of California's Central Coast's rare extreme acts.
Portland's Nanda Devi — named for the Himalayan peak — channels the weight and grandeur of their namesake into towering sludge and post-metal built for rainy Pacific Northwest introspection. Formed in 2019, the band favors breadth over speed.
Kyiv experimental black/doom metal and ambient project formed in 2013, pushing extreme metal into uncharted territory through unconventional sonic approaches. Their adventurous fusion channels metal at its most creatively unrestrained.
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