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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Niedergang is a black metal project from Veszprém, Hungary, active since 2013. Their German name — meaning 'downfall' or 'decline' — captures the nihilistic spirit of their sound.
Niederwelt is a black metal project from Saxony, active since 2021. The project's name meaning 'underworld' guides their descent into black metal darkness from eastern Germany.
Niekinti is a raw black metal project from the UK, active since 2020. The band delivers lo-fi, unpolished black metal in the tradition of the genre's rawest expressions.
Niemandsluft is an atmospheric black metal project from Mainz, the capital of Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2010. The project's name meaning 'no-man's air' captures the liminal, weightless quality of their atmospheric approach.
Nienor is a symphonic black metal band from Trhove Sviny in southern Bohemia, active since 2014. Named after the tragic figure from Tolkien's Silmarillion, the project blends orchestral elements with black metal in the rural Czech countryside.
Niente is a depressive black metal project from Prague, active since 2014. The project's Italian name meaning 'nothing' encapsulates the existential void at the core of their DSBM output.
Thessaloniki black metal project launched in 2020, contributing to northern Greece's extreme metal output. Their atmospheric approach to black metal draws from the region's rich tradition of dark and intense music.
Nierty is a black/death metal band from Wales, UK, active since 2010. The band fuses black and death metal traditions from the Welsh underground.
Self-described as practitioners of Nietzschean black metal, this São Paulo act built their lyrical and conceptual framework entirely around the philosopher's thought, with track titles on their 2023 album Twilight of the Idols — including "A man. A Rope. A Dance Over the Abyss." and "In the Mountains of the Mind" — reading like meditations on will, existence, and the abyss. The music matches the philosophy with cold, aggressive black metal that treats nihilism and self-overcoming as its primary emotional register.
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