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Nocturnis is a black metal project from Offenburg in Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2020. The project channels nocturnal black metal from the gateway to the Black Forest.
Nocturnity is a symphonic gothic/black metal band from Sweden, active since 1999. One of the longer-running acts in Swedish gothic-tinged extreme metal, the band blends symphonic grandeur with black metal intensity.
Nocturnlands is a black/death metal band from Kostroma, Russia, active since 2011. They deliver extreme metal from this ancient Golden Ring city on the Volga.
Pampa, Texas — a small panhandle city far removed from the state's major metal centers — is home to Nocturnus Mortis, a black metal project formed in 2020 that carries isolation and desolation in its very geography. The name, Latin for "death by night," signals an orthodox approach to the genre's themes of mortality and darkness. Operating well outside any metropolitan scene, the project embodies the solitary, self-sufficient spirit that has always driven the most genuine underground black metal.
Noctyr is a raw black metal project from Poland, formed in 2025. They embrace the lo-fi, uncompromising aesthetics of raw black metal.
Framingham, Massachusetts' Nocuous have been forging a cross-genre assault since 2014 that draws equally from thrash, black, and death metal — a combination that refuses to settle into any single lane. The band's approach maps onto the New England extreme metal tradition, where the region's long underground history has produced some of the most technically and tonally aggressive American metal. More than a decade in, Nocuous continue refining a sound that's equal parts ferocity and craft.
Nodhiria is a black metal project from Värmland, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project creates atmospheric black metal inspired by the vast forests of western Sweden.
Nodian is a black metal project from Ähtäri, Finland, active since 2011. The band crafts black metal rooted in the bleak, forested landscapes of central Finland, maintaining a presence in the country's prolific underground scene.
Noen hater oss is a black metal project from Stavanger, Norway, active since 2018. Their name — Norwegian for 'someone hates us' — brings sardonic self-awareness to their black metal.
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