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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Negator is a black metal band from Hamburg, active since 2004. Two decades of ferocious black metal from Germany's second-largest city have established them as a fixture of the northern German scene.
Negatron is a black/doom/thrash metal band from Padua, Italy, active since 2020. They merge three heavy genres into a dense, negatively charged sonic force.
Negatum is a black/doom metal band from Freilassing on the Austrian border in Bavaria, active since 2004. Two decades of fusing black metal bleakness with doom's crushing weight from the Salzburg-adjacent border town.
Dutch black metal project formed in 2019, channeling raw darkness and atmospheric intensity from the Netherlands. Their uncompromising approach draws from the genre's most extreme traditions.
Negru Vodă is a black/folk/progressive metal band from Bucharest and Călărași, Romania, active since 2020. Named after a legendary Wallachian ruler, they weave Romanian history into their atmospheric metal.
Negrume is a Portuguese black metal project formed in 2022. Their name — Portuguese for 'darkness' or 'blackness' — distills the essence of their sound.
Nehalennia is a Swiss black metal project formed in 2022, named after the Germanic goddess of the North Sea. The project channels maritime and mythological themes through a black metal framework.
Neige Morte is an obscure post-black metal entity split between Lyon, France, and Gothenburg, Sweden, creating what they describe as icy and oppressive hypothermic musical blasts. Their sound shifts between ponderous, bizarre atmospheric passages and frozen riffs across releases like Bicephaale and TRINNNT.
Johnstown, New York's Neist fuses death and black metal in a way that feels genuinely cold rather than performative — the upstate geography seems to seep into the riffs. Since 2017 they've been refining a sound that favors atmosphere built from aggression rather than ambience.
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