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Nedrugh is a black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2022. Their name — evoking the Russian word for enemy — signals the hostile intent of their sound.
Needless is a black/death/thrash metal band from Dánszentmiklós, Hungary, active since 2015. They unleash triple-genre extremity from this small village on the Great Hungarian Plain.
Nefarik is a black metal project from Berlin, formed in 2024. The project is among the latest additions to Berlin's ever-expanding black metal roster.
Nefarious Abyss is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Dominus Gargoyle, conceived as a complete audiovisual experience built around a fictional dark kingdom. The 2019 debut album Dominus blends atmospheric, melodic, and symphonic black metal across ten tracks, drawing listeners into an elaborate personal mythology of conquest and darkness.
Nefarious Dusk is a black metal band from the Cumbria/Derbyshire area of the UK, active since 2018. Their debut Cold Shadows Over Transylvania delivers atmospheric, Darkthrone-influenced raw black metal described as very foresty and winterly.
Miami's Nefarious Grime dissolves gothic atmosphere into black metal frost and then floods the mixture with outright experimental noise, producing something subtropical and strange. The city's cultural density bleeds into the music: lush, unsettling, and hard to pin down.
Nefarious Mash is a one-man avant-garde black metal project from Grenoble, France, created by classical-contemporary composer Eddy Jaber. The 2022 debut In Memory of Your Hopes, released on Wormwholedeath, combines brutal black metal power with avant-garde harmonic complexity across nine expansive tracks.
Nefarious Murmur practice an occult brand of doom-laden black metal from the Paraíba interior, drawing inspiration from Urfaust, Rotting Christ, and Isengard. Their releases include the demo Ercidium Unreal and the EP IX: Aeterna Paganus Heremita, presenting a slow, ritualistic approach rooted in demonology and esoteric themes.
Athenian war metal duo of Drowned and Maelstrom, unleashing detuned, wall-of-sound devastation that diverges sharply from typical Hellenic black metal. Their releases, including 2024's 'Final Breath,' layer old-school death metal riffage beneath fiery vocal howls and relentless percussive onslaughts.
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