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Nuclear Throne is a Finnish death/black metal band from Nakkila, active since 2009, drawing on apocalyptic and industrial themes alongside their extreme metal foundation. Their demos reveal a band rooted in the aggressive overlap between black metal, death metal, and industrial heaviness.
Formed by Thomas and Edu in the mid-2000s, Nuclëar Fröst channel Swedish d-beat hardcore, Japanese crust, and 1980s thrash into a politically charged war-metal hybrid. Their 2009 album Nuclear Winter Gloom and the 2014 self-titled EP show a band equally indebted to Discharge and early Bathory, with antifascist and nuclear-apocalypse lyrics running throughout. They have also appeared on several international splits alongside acts from the global crust underground.
Nuctemeron is a black/speed metal band from Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2016. Named after the mystical concept of the twelve hours of the night, the band channels occult speed metal from Germany's oldest city.
Nudimmud draw on Mesopotamian mythology and demonology for both their name and their thematic framework, weaving those ancient references into coldly atmospheric black metal. Their 2012 split with Natimorto on Hammer of Damnation, titled Anointed in Angel Blood, introduced tracks like Melammu Xul and Daughters of Lot — occult-inflected compositions that show a band more interested in ritualistic weight than in speed.
Nuisibles is a raw black metal project from France. The band delivers lo-fi, aggressive raw black metal in the unpolished tradition of the genre's most extreme expressions.
Mariupol atmospheric post-black metal act formed in 2019, blending contemplative textures with black metal's intensity from one of Ukraine's most devastated cities. Their art takes on added poignancy given the destruction of their hometown.
Nukekubi is a French raw black metal project formed in 2021. Named after a creature from Japanese folklore, the project delivers raw black metal intensity.
Nuklear Annihilation is a black metal project from Kyustendil, Bulgaria, whose 2013 debut 'Goat ov Annihilation' delivers short, ferocious blasts of what the project tags as 'nuklear black metal.' The project takes a scorched-earth approach to black metal from southwestern Bulgaria.
Nukular is a black/death metal project from Baden-Baden in the Black Forest, formed in 2024. The project brings radioactive extremity to the famous spa town of southwestern Germany.
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