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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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Newsflash (2023)
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Ruthless Brutal Death Metal from Houston.
Nephos is a black/death metal band from Dusseldorf, active since 2018. The band channels extreme metal darkness from the Rhine metropolis and fashion capital.
Nephren-Ka is a brutal death metal band from Auzon in central France, delivering what fans call the best of French brutal death metal with elaborate conceptual storytelling inspired by Frank Herbert's Dune universe. Their 2021 album From Agony to Transcendence, released on Season of Mist, weaves complex science fiction narratives through relentless death metal.
Nephrite is a black/death metal band from Stjørdal, Norway, active since 2018. Named after the jade mineral, they forge hard-edged extreme metal from the Trøndelag region.
Nephritis is a death metal band from Turku, active since 2020. The band delivers infectious death metal from Finland's former capital on the southwestern coast.
From Corpus Christi on the Gulf Coast of Texas, Nephrosis delivers death metal with the humid heaviness of a South Texas summer — unrelenting and suffocating in the best possible sense. The band has been honing their craft since 2019 in a city that punches well above its size for extreme music.
's-Hertogenbosch melodic death metal act formed in 2015, weaving melodic sophistication through aggressive frameworks from North Brabant's capital. Their approach carries the emotive range of the Scandinavian melodeath tradition.
Nepride is a multi-genre metal band from Budapest, blending death, doom, heavy, and melodic death metal since 2015. Their wide stylistic range creates a rich, varied sonic landscape.
Nepumuc is a symphonic death metal and metalcore band from Albisheim in the Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2016. The band fuses orchestral death metal with metalcore structure from the Palatinate wine country.
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