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Nirnaeth is a black/death metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. The band contributes to northern France's growing extreme metal scene with their fusion of black and death metal.
Nishkk is a blackened death metal project from Valdepenas in Castile-La Mancha, formed in 2025. The project brings extreme metal to the wine-producing heartland of central Spain.
Brooklyn's Nitesoil arrived in 2020 with a death metal sound rooted firmly in the fetid, churning tradition — dense riffs, guttural vocals, and a production aesthetic that feels caked in grime. Coming out of New York City's perpetually fertile underground, they bring an urban brutality to the genre that suits their surroundings, leaning into the punishing end of the death metal spectrum without apology.
Nithe is a black/death/thrash metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, formed in 2021. They deliver triple-genre aggression from southern Norway's Sørlandet coast.
Nitimur in Vetitum is a death/doom/sludge metal band from Falun, Sweden, formed in 2021. Named after the Latin phrase meaning 'we strive for the forbidden,' the band crafts crushing extreme metal from the historic mining city of Dalarna.
Nivatakavachas is a black/death/doom metal project from Lausanne, Switzerland, whose 2021 debut 'Ascraedunum' spans three tracks over thirty-four minutes of suffocating atmospheric extremity. Named after the demon warriors of Hindu mythology, the project blends brutal and old-school death metal with doom and black metal elements.
Nizvergnut is a crust/death/doom metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2014. Their name — Russian for 'cast down' — captures the descending heaviness of their sound.
Bergen, New Jersey's NJDOTS have been grinding out brutal deathcore since 2010, fusing the gutting low-end of brutal death metal with the pit-ready breakdowns and caustic energy of deathcore. Over a decade-plus of activity, they've honed a sound that is relentlessly physical — all down-tuned punishment and blastbeat aggression — making them a fixture of the Northeast's underground extreme metal circuit.
Virginia's Nnunn traffic in a murky, claustrophobic blend of atmospheric death and black metal that surfaced in 2021 with a sound that feels as though it was excavated rather than written. The band operates in shadowy territory where death metal's crushing weight bleeds into black metal's spectral dissonance, producing something that feels genuinely unmoored and unsettling.
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