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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Nuclear Blaze formed in 2017 with a sound that weaponizes black metal's cold atmosphere against the sheer velocity of grindcore, producing something abrasive and nihilistic in equal measure. The band strips both genres down to their most brutal fundamentals, offering little mercy in the way of melody or breathing room. Their Bandcamp presence marks them as a fixture in the extreme underground.
Nuclear Devastation is a grindcore band from Milan, Italy, active since 2012. They lay waste with blasting extremity from Italy's largest city.
Nuclear Holocaust is a death metal and grindcore band from Świdnik, Poland, active since 2015. They bring apocalyptic extremity from this Lublin voivodeship town.
Nuclear Impact is a grindcore/thrash metal band from Slovenia, active since 2015. The band delivers blistering extreme metal that fuses grindcore's relentless speed with thrash metal aggression.
Ripping Death Metal / Grindcore out of Texas.
One of the more savage relics of the late-1980s underground, Nuctemeron played a brutal and primitive blackened noise-grind that positioned them alongside other uncompromising Brazilian extreme acts of the era. Their 1990 demo Industrial Pollution and the captured chaos of the 1991 live tape Last Massacre represent the entirety of their output, later compiled on the FOAD Records release Posers Mutilation 1989–1991.
Nunwhore Commando 666 is an industrial cybergrind and grindcore project active since 2012. The project delivers digitally mangled, chaotic grindcore from the German underground.
Ripping Death Metal / Goregrind from El Paso, Texas (early); Ohio (later).
Nyctophobic is a death metal and grindcore band from Mannheim, one of the oldest extreme acts in the Rhine-Neckar area with origins back to 1994. Three decades of grinding death metal make them a veteran presence.
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