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Nocebo is a blackened deathcore and death metal band from the Normandy and Grand Est regions of France, formed in 2024. Their sound fuses the breakdown-heavy aggression of deathcore with blackened death metal extremity.
Nochaa is a deathcore band from Abergavenny, Wales, active since 2015. The band delivers breakdown-heavy deathcore from the Monmouthshire market town.
Grand Rapids, Michigan's Nociception take their name from the neurological process by which the body senses pain, and their death metal lives up to the name — dense, anatomical, and unsparing. Formed in 2019, they bring a methodical intensity to the genre, channeling the technical precision of the death metal tradition through a sound that is as surgically constructed as it is viscerally brutal.
Noctambulism is a death metal band from San Nicolás de Los Garza, Nuevo León, Mexico, with roots going back to 1986 under the name Necrophiliac before reforming as Noctambulism in 1989. They are signed to Dark Recollections Productions and released their full-length The Whisper of Prophets in 2021. The band remains active and is one of the longest-running death metal acts in northern Mexico.
Noctem is a black/death metal band from Valencia, active since 2019. The band channels nocturnal extremity through a fierce blend of black and death metal from Spain's third city.
Nocthun describes their music as "apocalyptic antifascist metal," channeling blackened death metal into explicitly political and confrontational themes. Their debut full-length "Rest in Flames" establishes the project with tracks like "In the Uncanny Valley of Death" and "Volcanic Hellfire," pairing blast-driven aggression with ideological conviction.
Noctiferia is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active since 2003. With albums spanning 'Per Aspera' to 'Transnatura' across two decades, the band blends industrial metal, groove metal, and blackened death metal into a heavy, guitar-driven assault.
Purmerend black/death metal act formed in 2020, merging atmospheric intensity with guttural extremity from North Holland. Their fusion approach channels the darkest impulses of both genres.
Noctura is a death/black metal band from Wurzburg in Lower Franconia, active since 2011. The band delivers extreme metal darkness from the baroque university city on the Main.
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