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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Nero or the Fall of Rome is a black/doom metal band from Verona, Italy, active since 2020. Their historically evocative name channels the imperial collapse into their dark, weighty compositions.
Nethervault is a stoner/doom metal band from Madrid, active since 2021. The band channels subterranean doom from the Spanish capital.
Netuno Doom blended stoner and sludge with progressive and doom textures, threading science fiction and Lovecraftian cosmic horror through slow, heavy riffs. The Fortaleza trio of Adriano Alves, Hewerson Freitas, and Bosco Lacerda released the conceptual EP The Universe The Prison in 2018, one of the more distinctive stoner/doom efforts to emerge from the northeast Brazilian underground.
Slovak sludge/doom metal project launched in 2025, delivering crushing sonic weight from the country's underground. Their oppressive approach channels the most suffocating traditions of both genres.
Neurasthenia is a doom/death metal project from Helsinki, formed in 2025. The project's name referencing the nervous exhaustion condition channels physical and mental depletion through crushing doom.
Neuropolis is a death/doom metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2019. They build crushing sonic cityscapes from the former imperial capital.
Neurotic Doom is a death/doom metal band from Hønefoss, Norway, active since 2020. They deliver anxious, crushing heaviness from this small Buskerud town northwest of Oslo.
Nevelhel is a black/doom metal band from Belgium's Limburg province, active since 2013. The project's name evokes the Norse realm of mist and darkness, fitting for their fusion of black metal bleakness with doom metal's crushing weight.
Neverseer is a sludge/doom metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The band delivers crushing, heavy doom and sludge metal from the Scottish capital.
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