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Necromaniac is a black/death/thrash metal band from London, UK, active since 2015. Their sound merges three of extreme metal's most aggressive subgenres into a relentless sonic assault.
Sala black/death metal act formed in 2017, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from the Västmanland silver-mining town. Their fusion channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
West Haven, Connecticut's Necromansy draw a direct line from death metal's early brutality to thrash's riff-forward velocity, active since 2024. New England's underground has a new act with a taste for the musty, ritualistic side of extreme metal.
Necromantia was a Greek black metal band founded in Athens in 1989 by George "The Magus" Zacharopoulos and Makis "Baron Blood" Kanakaris, distinguished by an unconventional lineup that replaced rhythm guitar with an eight-string bass and incorporated saxophone and flute. Alongside Rotting Christ and Varathron, they are credited as pioneers of the Greek black metal scene, releasing landmark albums including Crossing the Fiery Path (1993) and Scarlet Evil Witching Black (1995). Following the death of founding member Baron Blood in 2019, the band released a final album, To the Depths We Descend (2021), and officially disbanded in December of that year.
Necromaton is an Irish death metal project formed in 2026. They bring fresh brutality to the Emerald Isle's growing extreme metal scene.
Necromega is a black/death metal project from Milan, Italy, formed in 2023. They deliver extreme metal from Italy's biggest city with the weight their name implies.
Founded in Santo André by Daniel Curtolo and Victor Prospero, Necromesis spent nearly a decade working through an increasingly ambitious run of releases — from the 2009 demo The Dark Works of Art through the EPs Evolving to an Underworld (2011) and Echoes of a Memory (2014) to the full-length The Poet's Paradox (2015) — blending visceral death metal with progressive and thrash underpinnings. The band is also notable as the launchpad for vocalist Mayara Puertas, known as May Undead, who recorded Echoes of a Memory and The Poet's Paradox before departing in 2015 to become the frontwoman of Torture Squad.
Luleå symphonic black/death metal act formed in 2010, blending orchestral grandeur with extreme metal ferocity from the northernmost major city on the Swedish Baltic coast. Their cinematic approach adds drama to the darkness.
Necromorbid is a black/death metal band from Florence, Italy, active since 2016. They add to the Tuscan capital's legacy of extreme metal darkness.
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