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Nuclear Shadow is a death metal band from Riccione near Rimini, Italy, formed in 2024. They cast a dark shadow from this Adriatic resort town on the Romagna Riviera.
Nuclear Storm is a death/thrash metal band from Naila in Upper Franconia, active since 2004. Two decades of atomic-level extremity from the Bavarian-Thuringian border make them a fixture of the Franconian scene.
Ripping Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
Nuclear Throne is a Finnish death/black metal band from Nakkila, active since 2009, drawing on apocalyptic and industrial themes alongside their extreme metal foundation. Their demos reveal a band rooted in the aggressive overlap between black metal, death metal, and industrial heaviness.
Nuclear War is a thrash metal band from San Salvador, El Salvador, formed in 2015. Their sole release is the EP War Dance (2018), a short blast of war- and death-themed thrash recorded while the band was active. The band has been on hold since 2018.
New Jersey's Nucleus has been pursuing a brand of stoner metal since 2013 that favors thick, rolling riffs and the kind of slow-burn intensity the genre does best. Their hard rock roots give the music a directness that keeps it accessible without softening the heaviness at its core. Over a decade of activity cements their place as a steady presence in the East Coast underground.
One of the more savage relics of the late-1980s underground, Nuctemeron played a brutal and primitive blackened noise-grind that positioned them alongside other uncompromising Brazilian extreme acts of the era. Their 1990 demo Industrial Pollution and the captured chaos of the 1991 live tape Last Massacre represent the entirety of their output, later compiled on the FOAD Records release Posers Mutilation 1989–1991.
Out of Santa Ana, California, Nug have been pummeling eardrums with their brand of slam and brutal death metal since 2018. The band leans hard into bone-cracking breakdowns and guttural extremity, placing them squarely in the Southern California tradition of no-frills, bowel-loosening brutality.
Nugatory is a death metal band from Skorping in North Jutland, active since 2017. The band's name meaning 'worthless' belies the substantial death metal they deliver from rural Denmark.
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