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Nascitus is a black/doom metal project from Sulzbach-Rosenberg in Bavaria's Upper Palatinate, active since 2017. The project merges black metal's bleakness with doom's glacial pace from rural eastern Bavaria.
Nashorn is a death/doom metal band from Loimaa in southwestern Finland, active since 2011. The band's German name meaning 'rhinoceros' captures the heavy, charging nature of their doom-death.
Nataron is a solo death/doom metal project based in Lancaster, UK, created by Greku, a former vocalist and guitarist of Polish band Sinner. The project blends death metal heaviness with doom's deliberate pacing across releases including the album 40&4.
Natem is a doom/death metal band from Hildesheim in Lower Saxony, active since 2015. The band pairs funeral-paced doom with death metal growls from the UNESCO World Heritage city in northern Germany.
Nathr is a black/doom/funeral doom metal band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2021. They plumb the darkest depths of doom from this central Norwegian city.
Natt is a melodic death/doom metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, active since 2007. Their name — Norwegian for 'night' — sets the nocturnal tone for their sorrowful compositions.
Swedish gothic/doom metal and rock project launched in 2024, whose name means 'Night Radio,' merging dark romanticism with crushing heaviness. Their atmospheric approach explores the melancholic depths of gothic doom.
Nauthik is a funeral doom metal project from Cologne, active since 2017. The project delivers some of the slowest, most crushing metal to emerge from the Rhineland's cultural capital.
Johnson City, Tennessee's Navajo Witch ladles sludge over a doom framework, conjuring the dark folklore of Appalachia through slow, punishing riffs since 2013. Their southern heaviness has a ceremonial dread to it.
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