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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Nerascesi is a black/death metal band from Milan, Italy. They deliver extreme metal from Italy's largest and most cosmopolitan city.
Nerehide is a melodic death metal band from Brittany, France, formed in 2016. Their releases including The Last Day EP deliver melodic death metal from the Celtic region of western France.
Nereid is a death/metalcore/thrash metal band from Termoli in Molise, Italy, active since 2017. Named after the sea nymphs of Greek mythology, they bring aquatic aggression from the Adriatic coast.
Nerlich is a death metal band from the Helsinki-Espoo area, active since 2004. Two decades of death metal from the Finnish capital region make them an established force.
Nero di Marte is a death/post-metal/progressive metal band from Bologna, Italy, active since 2013. They have earned critical acclaim for their adventurous, boundary-pushing approach to extreme metal.
Nero Doctrine is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Greifswald on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive melodeath from the historic Hanseatic university town.
Nerobove is a death/thrash metal band from Catania, Sicily, active since 2018. They bring aggressive extremity from beneath the shadow of Mount Etna.
Nerodia is a black/death/thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2016. Named after the North American water snake genus, they strike with multi-genre venomous intensity.
Nerumia is a melodic death/black metal band from Lausanne, Switzerland, active since 2018. The band crafts atmospheric melodic extremity from the French-speaking shores of Lake Geneva.
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