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Bratislava deathcore act formed in 2016, delivering punishing breakdowns and extreme vocal delivery from Slovakia's capital. Their aggressive approach channels the genre's most crushing impulses.
Noosed is a death/sludge metal band from Galway, Ireland, active since 2019. They tighten the noose with crushing, suffocating heaviness from the west of Ireland.
Noostrak is a deathcore band from Havlickuv Brod in the Czech-Moravian Highlands, active since 2013. The band delivers breakdowns and blast beats from a small town at the geographic heart of the Czech Republic.
Nora Cavern Age is an experimental death metal duo from Mogilev, Belarus, featuring vocalist Lewis Cameron and multi-instrumentalist George Holodzow. Their 2012 debut 'Mirrors in Me' blends death metal with doom, groove, and keyboards into an unconventional four-track journey.
Norah is a melodic death metal band from Hamburg, active since 2019. The band delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from Germany's northern port city.
Nordelf is a progressive melodic death metal band from Ventspils, Latvia, formed in 2023. They bring technically ambitious metal from this Baltic port city on the Kurzeme coast.
Sacramento's Nordic Frost have been fusing black and death metal since 2015, drawing on the ferocity of both traditions to produce something leaner and more direct than either genre alone. Their sound favors cold, northern-tinged riffing over Californian warmth, which sets them apart from their regional peers. It's uncompromising extreme metal from an unlikely corner of the West Coast.
Nordt is a black/death metal band from Brunswick in Lower Saxony, active since 2021. The band fuses black and death metal from the historic Lion City of northern Germany.
Black/death metal act originally spanning Ukraine and Hungary before settling in Kyiv, formed in 2017. Their multinational origins reflect the borderless nature of extreme metal, channeling darkness across Central and Eastern European traditions.
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