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Nothing More to Eat is a Finnish grindcore and death metal band from Helsinki, active since 2010. With three albums of short, punishing tracks blending grindcore ferocity with hardcore aggression, they deliver a relentless sonic assault rooted in the Finnish extreme underground.
Nothing New in Heaven is a melodic death metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2022. The band brings melodic death metal to the champagne capital, adding to the city's growing metal scene.
Savage Death Metal from Wichita Falls.
Minneapolis death metal outfit Nothingness formed in 2019 and have quickly carved out a place in Minnesota's thriving underground extreme metal scene with a sound that is unrelenting and purposefully unadorned. They favor the direct brutality of classic death metal — dense low-end, churning rhythms, and vocals dredged from somewhere beneath the frost line.
Istanbul death metal act formed in 2011, delivering brutal extremity from Turkey's largest city. Their sustained output speaks to Istanbul's active death metal underground.
Noumena is a melodic death metal band from Ähtäri, Finland, with a catalog spanning over two decades from their 2002 debut Pride/Fall through 2024's Silent Words and beyond. Their Finnish-language lyrics and polished dual-vocal approach have established them as a mainstay of the Finnish melodic death metal scene.
Noumenon is a progressive death metal band from Munich, active since 2007. Named after the Kantian philosophical concept of the thing-in-itself, the band explores cerebral themes through nearly two decades of progressive death metal.
Noutaja is a Helsinki-based death metal band signed to Inverse Records, delivering aggressive old-school death metal across releases like Never Meant To Save Us. Their sound channels the raw power and compositional depth of classic Scandinavian death metal.
Novembre is a death/doom/gothic/progressive metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2020. They are one of Italy's most respected progressive extreme metal acts, known for their emotionally profound and musically adventurous compositions.
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