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Novercalis is a black/death metal project from Gland, Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project is among the newest additions to the francophone Swiss extreme metal underground.
Novgore is a black/death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. One of the oldest extreme metal acts from the Gothenburg region, the band has over three decades of underground black/death metal behind them.
Novichoke is a Russian black/death metal project active since 2021. Their name — a dark play on the nerve agent Novichok — signals the toxic extremity of their sound.
Novigrad is a groove/death/black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 1998. Their genre-spanning approach blends groove, death, and black metal traditions across over two decades of activity.
Novus Orsa from Red Bluff, California have been developing their brand of death metal since 2015 in one of the state's more isolated corners, far from the major urban scenes. That geographic remove seems to have focused their sound inward — a death metal project built with deliberate intent, operating with the patience of a band answerable only to themselves.
Nowen is a death/thrash metal band from Lahti, Finland, active since 2005, with a catalog of four albums including Peace With Death and Where Hell Begins. Their music explores themes of mortality, fear, and darkness through a relentless fusion of death and thrash metal.
Spijkenisse symphonic/melodic death metal act formed in 2014, blending orchestral grandeur with extreme metal aggression from the South Holland islands. Their cinematic approach channels the drama of symphonic metal through a death metal lens.
Nox Aurea is a gothic doom metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2009. Their album 'Ascending in Triumph' on Napalm Records blends heavy guitars with hypnotic keyboards, contrasting deep growls with delicate female vocals, drawing on Gnostic philosophy for lyrical themes.
Nox Doloris is a black/death/symphonic metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2013. Their Latin name — meaning 'night of pain' — captures the suffering at the core of their orchestral extremity.
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