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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Buenos Aires's Nightkarnation have spent twenty years shape-shifting through raw black metal, death metal brutality, and symphonic grandeur — a rare band whose entire discography reads like a genre evolution in real time. Ambitious, restless, and fiercely independent.
Pesaro act that evolved from folk/death/power metal origins into a symphonic death metal direction, reflecting an increasingly orchestral creative vision since 2011. Their transformation toward cinematic grandeur speaks to an ambition that outgrew conventional genre boundaries.
Nightmare is a death metal band from Vratsa, Bulgaria, active since 2016. The band delivers crushing death metal from the foot of the Balkan Mountains in northwestern Bulgaria.
Nightmare Concert is a death metal band from Bielefeld, active since 2021. The band brings nightmarish death metal to the East Westphalian city often joked to not exist.
Nightmare Constellation is an Innsbruck-based progressive death metal and deathcore band featuring vocalist Tom Stover, guitarist Patrick Schatz, bassist Dominik Schatz, and drummer Clemens Recheis. Citing influences from Gojira to Cult of Luna, their release 'Palingenesis' fuses sludge-metal heaviness with progressive deathcore technicality.
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.
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