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Nightmare Corporation is a melodic death/groove metal band from Toulon, France, formed in 2016. Their releases Rage Mind and Dead Rider deliver a potent combination of melodic death metal precision and groove-driven heaviness from the French Riviera.
Tampa's Nightmare Council drag death metal into strange, uncomfortable territory, weaponizing experimental structures against genre conventions in a city that practically invented the form. Unsettling, warped, and proudly outside the boundaries.
Nightmare Slaughter deliver old-school death metal with a deeply occult bent, drawing on Thelema, Kabbalah, and Mesopotamian mythology across their lyrics. Their 2017 EP "The Quintessence of the Incomprehensible" introduced the project, and the 2021 full-length "Worm Kabbalah" solidified their sound — dense, deliberate, and reminiscent of early Vader and Gorguts.
Nightmare Visions is a death/doom metal band from Wigan, UK, formed in 2018. Their sound merges death metal aggression with the crushing pace and melancholy of doom metal from Greater Manchester.
Kutno thrash/heavy/death metal act with roots stretching back to 1990, making them one of central Poland's earliest extreme metal bands. Their three-plus decades of activity across multiple genres speak to remarkable staying power.
NightMyHeaven is a melodic black/death/symphonic metal band from Guimarães, Portugal, active since 2005. Two decades of activity from the city regarded as the birthplace of Portugal.
Nightrealm is an atmospheric death/doom metal project from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2022. The band crafts heavy, brooding compositions that merge the weight of death metal with the sorrowful pacing of doom.
Nights Horn is a French black/death metal project formed in 2023. The band merges the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the ferocity of death metal.
Nightspheres is a melodic death metal band from Sturminster Newton, UK, formed in 2022. The band brings melodic death metal to the rural Dorset countryside.
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