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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.
Punishing Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
Nekrotik Flesh is a death metal and crust band from Liverpool, UK, formed in 2020. Their sound merges death metal heaviness with the raw punk energy of crust from the Merseyside underground.
Nekrovault is a death metal band from Memmingen in the Allgau region, founded in 2016 with a mission to rebirth 'the genuine and dark art of total Death Metal.' Their catalog including 'Totenzug: Festering Peregrination' features a four-piece lineup delivering old-school death metal with sepulchral devotion.
Kentucky deathcore and death metal act Nekrowinter formed in Versailles in 2025, blending the genre's breakdown-heavy architecture with straightforward death metal ferocity. Young and newly formed, they're still defining the edges of what they want to be.
Nekroyd is a death metal band from Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia, Russia, active since 2020. They bring brutality from this lake-studded northern Russian republic.
Simferopol symphonic/melodic black/death metal act formed in 2020, blending orchestral grandeur with extreme metal aggression from Crimea. Their ambitious multi-genre approach channels drama through a black metal lens.
NEKVED is a dark death metal band from Lorient, Brittany, established in 1998, blending death metal aggression with Celtic consonances and cyber influences. Across four releases from 2001's Futura Massacra to 2019's Dystopie, they have crafted a disturbing sonic universe with distinctly Breton character.
Neldoreth is a thrash/death metal band from Erandio in the Basque Country, active since 2013. Named after the forest in Tolkien's Beleriand, the band fuses fantasy themes with thrash-death aggression from the Bilbao metropolitan area.
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