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Nocturnal Abattoir is an Irish death metal project active since 2012. Their name — meaning 'slaughterhouse by night' — sets a grim, visceral tone.
Nocturnal Bleed play old-school death metal with a raw, unpolished ferocity rooted in the Floridan and Swedish traditions, releasing the debut full-length Lake of Fire in 2024 — a ten-track assault spanning short blasts like "Morbid Whisper" through to lumbering cuts like "Planetary Slavery" and "Devour the Corpse." The record was preceded by the 2023 single "Scourge of Pain," establishing the band's place in the Pará underground.
Nocturnal Ceremony is a death metal project from Moss, Norway, formed in 2025. They conduct rites of sonic devastation from this Østfold coastal city.
Nocturnal Damnation is a melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2016. The band delivers aggressive yet melodic death metal from the Swedish capital.
Death/black metal act from Peristeri in the greater Athens area, active since 2012 and merging the guttural weight of death metal with black metal's atmospheric intensity. Their fusion approach channels the most aggressive tendencies of both genres.
Nocturnal Domination is a melodic death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2016. The band contributes to Stockholm's diverse extreme metal scene with their brand of melody-driven death metal.
Nocturnal Emission is a death metal and grindcore band from Benesov nad Ploucnici in northern Bohemia, with origins stretching back to 1981, making them one of the earliest extreme metal acts in what is now the Czech Republic. Their remarkable longevity spans over four decades of grinding extremity.
Nocturnal Escape is a progressive black/death metal band from Augsburg, active since 2015. The band fuses progressive ambition with extreme metal intensity from the Swabian city on the Lech River.
Pennsauken, New Jersey's Nocturnal Fear have been delivering punishing crossover thrash since 2008, blending the pit-ready aggression of hardcore with the velocity of thrash and the bruising weight of death metal. Their sound sits at the collision point of genres — close to the street-level fury of bands like Nuclear Assault but with a nastier, more death-metal-informed bite. More than fifteen years into their run, they've remained one of New Jersey's most persistently aggressive metal outfits.
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