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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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Neverendinghate is a black/thrash metal band from Santander in Cantabria, active since 2008. The band channels inexhaustible aggression through nearly two decades of blackened thrash from Spain's northern coast.
Neverfading is a depressive black metal project from London, UK, formed in 2023. The project channels melancholy and existential despair through the raw emotional framework of depressive black metal.
Operating under the name Horda Nevoa on streaming platforms, this Rio Grande do Sul black metal act delivers a raw, war-obsessed assault drawing on themes of slaughter, satanism, and death that are squarely in the Brazilian black metal tradition. Their 2017 full-length Black Southern Winds is a 13-track statement of intent, and the band followed it with Obscura Essência in 2021, showing consistent output since their 2015 debut Satanic Bloody Wars.
Nevrast is a black metal project from Pavia, Italy, active since 2015. Named after a region in Tolkien's Beleriand, they draw on Middle-earth lore for their atmospheric darkness.
Nevrome was a French experimental black metal group formed by Samael and Morax in 2015, active until March 2018. Across four releases including Perversion, Black Sun, and Girls of Glass, they explored the experimental fringes of black metal.
Nexion is a black metal band from Paisley, Scotland, active since 2017. The band channels black metal darkness from the west of Scotland.
Nexorum is a black/death metal band from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2019. They contribute to the rich extreme metal tradition of Norway's third-largest city.
Nexphorus is a death/black metal project from the Saarland, active since 2021. The project merges death and black metal from the Franco-German border region of southwestern Germany.
Nexrist is a black metal project from Tula, Russia, active since 2012. They forge antichristian darkness from this historic Russian city south of Moscow.
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