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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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Nightcult is a black metal project from Granada in Andalusia, active since 2014. The project channels nocturnal cult worship through black metal from the city of the Alhambra.
Nighted is a melodic black metal project from Lucerne, Switzerland, active since 2022. The project delivers atmospheric, melody-driven black metal from the scenic shores of Lake Lucerne in central Switzerland.
Nightfall in Eden is a Viennese death/black metal band established in 2021, with releases including 'The Great Darkness' and 'Sinister Universe.' The project channels a grim fusion of death and black metal traditions from Austria's capital city.
Nightforest is an Austrian ambient black metal project from the Styria region, emerging in 2024. The project merges atmospheric ambient textures with black metal, evoking the dense, darkened woodlands suggested by its name.
Florence black metal act formed in 2013, channeling darkness and aggression from the Renaissance city. Their sound channels the intensity of black metal from an unexpectedly cultured setting.
Nighthaunter is a raw black metal project from Brighton, UK, formed in 2021. The band delivers lo-fi, uncompromising raw black metal from the Sussex coast.
A raw thrash/black metal horde from the northeast, NightHunter deal in aggressive, blasphemous metal with lyrical themes of death, paganism, and alcohol-fueled misanthropy. Their discography includes the full-length "Hunting the Christian Scum" and the follow-up "The Return of the Evil Empire" (2014), both carrying the corrosive spirit of the South American underground.
Buenos Aires's Nightkarnation have spent twenty years shape-shifting through raw black metal, death metal brutality, and symphonic grandeur — a rare band whose entire discography reads like a genre evolution in real time. Ambitious, restless, and fiercely independent.
Nightly Mass is a black metal project from Smolensk, Russia, active since 2016. They conduct dark rituals from this historic western Russian city.
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