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Nostrum is a death metal band from Zarren in Belgium's West Flanders province, active since 2013. The band contributes to the Flemish extreme metal scene with unrelenting death metal brutality.
Nosturaack is a melodic death/black metal band from Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, active since 2017. The band blends melodic death and black metal from the lakeside capital of northeastern Germany.
Not Above Evil is a melodic death/black metal band from Manchester, UK, active since 2010. Their sound bridges the melodic precision of Scandinavian death metal with the atmospheric ferocity of black metal.
Enschede death/thrash metal act formed in 2011, delivering aggressive riffing from the Overijssel border city. Their dual-genre assault channels both death metal brutality and thrash velocity.
Not Stopping Fight is a melodic death/groove metal band from Omsk, Siberia, active since 2014. Their determined name drives the relentless energy of their metal from western Siberia.
Not Yet Fallen is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Padua, Italy, active since 2013. They balance melody with intensity from this ancient university city in the Veneto.
Chicago's Not-Us emerged in 2021 bridging the raw aggression of hardcore with the grinding intensity of death and thrash metal, a combination the city's notoriously tough underground scene has embraced. Their trajectory from thrash/death roots toward a more hardcore-driven attack reflects a band constantly sharpening their edge, channeling urban grit into fast, confrontational music.
Toledo, Ohio's Notara came together in 2019 to deliver death/thrash metal with a precision and ferocity that punches well above the band's years in existence. Their approach fuses the surgical riffing of classic death metal with the velocity and aggression of thrash, carrying on the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extreme metal built on pure craft.
Nothgard is an epic melodic death metal band from Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria, active since 2011. The band crafts sweeping, cinematic melodic death metal from the Danube valley of southeastern Bavaria.
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