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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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San Mateo's Napalm Holocaust arrived in 2021 with Bay Area black metal that strips the genre down to its most combative and primitive essentials. No atmosphere, no embellishment — just scorched-earth hatred.
Napierdalać is a symphonic black/death metal band from Manchester, UK, formed in 2023. Their Polish-named project brings symphonic grandeur to extreme metal from the northwest of England.
Nar is a melodic black metal project from Fgura, Malta, active since 2017. They bring black metal to this small, densely populated island nation in the central Mediterranean.
Nar Mataron is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. The band carries forward the aggressive spirit of the Hellenic black metal scene.
Nar Mattaru is a black/death/pagan metal band from Kaliningrad, Russia, active since 2019. Named after a Sumerian underworld concept, they channel ancient mythology from Russia's Baltic exclave.
Nara is an atmospheric black metal project from Galdakao in the Basque Country, active since 2019. The project crafts enveloping atmospheric black metal from the green valleys of the Basque industrial heartland.
Naragon is a German atmospheric black metal project with roots stretching back to 2000. Over two decades, the project has cultivated a deeply atmospheric approach to black metal.
Naram Sin is a blackened doom metal act from Saint-Georges-sur-Allier, France, active since 2013. Their music merges the oppressive weight of doom metal with the cold atmosphere of black metal, creating a sound steeped in darkness and deliberate pacing.
Kremenchuk post-black metal act formed in 2017, blending atmospheric textures with black metal's intensity from central Ukraine. Their expansive sound bridges raw aggression and contemplative beauty.
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