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Narkotroll is a death metal and deathcore band from Kursk, Russia, active since 2005. Over two decades, they have established themselves as veterans of the Russian extreme metal scene.
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Kentucky deathcore and death metal act Nekrowinter formed in Versailles in 2025, blending the genre's breakdown-heavy architecture with straightforward death metal ferocity. Young and newly formed, they're still defining the edges of what they want to be.
Long Island's Nemacyte fuses deathcore's low-end beatdowns with metalcore melodicism and outright death metal brutality, landing somewhere in the aggressive center of all three. The band carries the New York metropolitan area's tradition of heavy music that demands physical response.
Neperiah is a death metal and deathcore band from Toulouse, France, whose 2014 debut EP Dividers delivers eight tracks blending death metal aggression with deathcore breakdowns and thrash elements. The band represents Toulouse's active extreme metal community.
Nephalokia is a genre-crossing metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2008, blending the heaviness of modern metal with deathcore brutality and post-hardcore atmospheric ambiances. Across releases including Journey and Sunshine, they aim to smash borders between genres to express contradictory emotions.
Nest of Plagues is a death metal and deathcore band from Budapest, Hungary, active since 2016. They have built a following with their modern, technically proficient approach to extreme metal.
Kyiv brutal death metal and deathcore act formed in 2017, merging surgical precision with punishing breakdowns from Ukraine's capital. Their technically demanding approach pushes extremity to its limits.
Nexilva is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Sunderland, UK, formed in 2018. Their sound merges the technical complexity of progressive death metal with the breakdown-heavy aggression of deathcore.
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