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Necroprofanator is a black/thrash metal band from Campobasso in Molise, Italy, active since 2015. They bring grave-desecrating extremity from one of Italy's least-populated and most overlooked regions.
A short-lived one-man black metal project driven by its sole member Nekrose, channeling themes of melancholy, depression, and internal struggle into nine tracks of emotional intensity on the 2025 album "Inexistencial Inexistência." The band dissolved the same year the album was released.
Necropyre is a Death/Black Metal band from Ecuador, active since 2021. Their self-titled "Demo I," released in July 2021, features four tracks of raw extreme metal written and performed entirely by the band, with all music and lyrics credited to Necropyre. The demo was self-released independently on Bandcamp under the straightforward descriptor "Metal from Ecuador."
Necroracle is a death/black metal band from Barcelona, active since 2018. The band channels oracular darkness through extreme metal from Catalonia's vibrant music scene.
Necroratory is a black metal project from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2013. Their name — fusing necro with oratory — suggests sermons delivered from beyond the grave.
Necroreich is a Finnish black/death metal project active since 2017. The project delivers ferocious black-death from the Finnish underground.
Necrorgy is a melodic black metal project from Skien, Norway, formed in 2021. They blend melody with darkness from this Telemark city that was once a major Viking trading center.
Necros Spirifer is a black metal band from Arequipa, Peru, formed in 2024 and dedicated to themes of sacrifices, sorcery, chaos, and darkness. The band released their debut demo "Abysmus Primigenus - We Preserve the Ancient Wisdom" in 2025, a six-track recording that announced their arrival in the Peruvian black metal underground.
Necrosadist is a raw black metal project originally from Nicosia, Cyprus, and later based in London, active since 2005. The project brings two decades of unfiltered black metal ferocity bridging the Mediterranean and British underground scenes.
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