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Nonstop Spritzen is a grindcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, active since 2012. The band delivers relentless blasts of grindcore from Germany's most populous state.
Phoenix grindcore outfit Nooses have been delivering short, violent bursts of sonic punishment since 2018, channeling the genre's core ethos of maximum aggression in minimum time. Their music is blunt and uncompromising, built from jagged riffs, blast beats, and throat-shredding vocals that leave no room for subtlety. In a city better known for sun and sprawl, they carve out a relentlessly hostile niche.
Norylsk is a grindcore band from Włocławek, Poland, active since 2014. Named after the polluted Siberian industrial city, they grind with industrial-scale intensity.
Nospheratu is a death metal and grindcore project from Osterwieck in the Harz region, formed in 2025. The project brings vampiric extremity to the foothills of Germany's mythical mountain range.
Operating under the abbreviation N.Ó.I.A. — a Portuguese slang pun meaning dopey or paranoid — this São Paulo grindcore outfit delivered blasts of politically charged noise across a run of splits and compilations between 2012 and 2016. Their discography includes the debut Gritos de Horror, a split with Instinct of Suicide, an Agathocles cover, and the Correntes da Tirania split with Smelling Fétid Corpse.
Nostromo is a legendary Geneva-based metalcore and grindcore band active since 1998, whose albums 'Argue' and 'Ecce Lex' established them as a reference point in European extreme metal. The band reformed in 2016 to tour with Gojira, continuing their legacy of complex, technical extremity.
Nothing More to Eat is a Finnish grindcore and death metal band from Helsinki, active since 2010. With three albums of short, punishing tracks blending grindcore ferocity with hardcore aggression, they deliver a relentless sonic assault rooted in the Finnish extreme underground.
Novitchok is a grindcore, crust punk, and black metal band from the Heidelberg-Mannheim area, active since 2021. Named after the notorious nerve agent, the band delivers a toxic blend of grind, crust, and black metal from the Rhine-Neckar region.
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