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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nagasaki Nightmare is a black metal and crust punk band from Bari, Italy, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of activity have sharpened their blend of blackened ferocity and punk urgency.
Naglet is a black metal and crust punk band from Bergen, Norway, active since 2018. They fuse the raw aggression of crust with black metal's darkness from Norway's western capital.
Naillung is a black/death metal and crust band from Turku, active since 2019. The band fuses extreme metal with crust punk from Finland's former medieval capital.
Zagreb-based black/death metal and crust act formed in 2016, merging extreme metal ferocity with punk's raw D-beat energy. Their triple-genre fusion creates a sound both savage and politically charged.
Narcosa is a death metal and crust band from Prague, formed in 2024. The project fuses death metal heaviness with the raw urgency of crust punk from the Czech capital's DIY scene.
Nefarious Vermin is a crust punk/death metal band from Postojna, Slovenia, formed in 2020. The band fuses the raw energy of crust punk with death metal's extremity from the karst region of southwestern Slovenia.
Born from members of Disfigured By Hatred, Nefärioüs D-saster channel the raw fury of Anti Cimex and D-beat punk through a death metal filter on releases like the 2018 Worship Disaster EP and the 2018 split Total Disaster. Their sound is a deliberately abrasive collision of nuclear-age dread, war imagery, and underground punk nihilism.
Negative Thought Process is a crust punk, grindcore, and powerviolence band from the Surrey/Reading area of the UK, active since 2016. Their sound blends the raw aggression of crust punk with grindcore velocity and powerviolence's chaotic intensity.
Nekroskop is a black metal/crust punk/death metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2013. The band fuses extreme metal aggression with the raw energy of crust punk from Sweden's third-largest city.
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