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Nizhe is a death metal band from Prague, active since 2020, with a name rendered in both Czech and Russian Cyrillic script. The bilingual identity reflects a cross-cultural approach to death metal.
Nîn Morn is a doom/death metal band from Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, formed in 2011 and signed to No Wasted Records. The band progressed from early EPs — Funeral (2012) and The Black Box (2015) — to their debut full-length Victus Paradisum in 2021, building a sound anchored in themes of death, despair, misanthropy, and nature. Their 2019 EP Valle de la muerte and 2023 single Lament continue to refine their dense, grief-laden approach to the genre.
Nóttcarv is a melodic black/death metal band from Klaipėda, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They bring Scandinavian-influenced extreme metal from Lithuania's major Baltic Sea port.
Nodtveidt is a melodic black/death metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2025. The project is among Bulgaria's newest extreme metal entries, blending melodic sensibility with blackened death metal ferocity.
Ný Mynd is a melodic death metal band from Piacenza, Italy, active since 2019. Their Icelandic name — meaning 'new image' — hints at the fresh perspective they bring to the melodeath genre.
Nyr Gata is a melodic black/death metal project from the Neunkirchen-Nahe area of the Saarland, active since 2015. The project fuses melodic black and death metal from the wooded hills of southwestern Germany.
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