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Névrose is a black/death metal band from Metz, France, active since 2014. Their sound fuses the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the aggression of death metal from the industrial northeast of France.
Névrosisme is a black/death metal band from the Pays de la Loire region of France, active since 2013. The band blends black and death metal traditions from the western French countryside.
Níðstöng is a black metal project from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2020. Named after the Norse 'nithing pole' — a cursing stake — they channel ancient Scandinavian malice.
Nóttcarv is a melodic black/death metal band from Klaipėda, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They bring Scandinavian-influenced extreme metal from Lithuania's major Baltic Sea port.
Nôidva is a Finnish black metal band whose 2023 album Lappish Shatanism draws deeply on Lappish culture, forest mysticism, and shamanic traditions. The four-piece weaves atmospheric and folkloric elements into their black metal, creating a sound rooted in the spiritual landscape of northern Finland.
Nodtveidt is a melodic black/death metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. The project is among Bulgaria's newest extreme metal entries, blending melodic sensibility with blackened death metal ferocity.
Nöldr is the solo black metal and dungeon synth project of Lord Deathlaff, whose 2021 debut Misanthropic Forest established the project's tone: raw tremolo-driven riffs shadowed by a melodic melancholy, closing into dark ambient territory. Subsequent releases including the Dynasty ov the Darkened Evocations EP and Profane Eternity deepen a cosmology drawn from Tolkien, Norse myth, and the bleak aesthetics of second-wave black metal.
Nøkian Monark is a Finnish black/groove metal project formed in 2023, fusing the cold atmosphere of black metal with the heavy rhythmic drive of groove metal. The band represents an emerging voice in Finland's diverse extreme metal underground.
Named after the water-spirit of Norse folklore, Columbus, Ohio's Nøkk play black metal with a mythology-rooted identity and the cold, uncompromising energy that marks the newer wave of American projects in the genre. Formed in 2023, the band channels both the tradition and the restless forward motion of the current underground.
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