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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Los Angeles's Night City drags industrial machinery into the sludge pit, layering mechanical abrasion over slow, suffocating riffs built for neon-lit urban decay. Dystopian heaviness for a city that never sleeps.
Nightshadows Lament is a neoclassical/industrial doom metal band from Dewsbury, UK, active since 2012. Their unique sound blends neoclassical grandeur and industrial textures with the crushing weight of doom metal.
Industrial stoner metal act from Sermoneta Scalo near Latina, formed in 2015 and fusing mechanical rhythms with fuzz-drenched heaviness. Their unconventional hybrid channels the best of both industrial and stoner traditions.
Industrial black metal act operating across Viareggio, Pisa, and Livorno on the Tuscan coast, fusing mechanical rhythms with black metal's primal fury. Their cold, cybernetic approach transforms the genre's organic aggression into something clinical and calculated.
Noctiferia is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Ljubljana, Slovenia, active since 2003. With albums spanning 'Per Aspera' to 'Transnatura' across two decades, the band blends industrial metal, groove metal, and blackened death metal into a heavy, guitar-driven assault.
Nocturnal Fears is a death/industrial metal band from Lille, France, active since 2008. Their sound merges the aggression of death metal with mechanized industrial textures from northern France's underground.
Nocturnal Wrath is a multi-genre extreme metal band from Tula, Russia, active since 2003. Over two decades, they have evolved through black, death, doom, and industrial metal influences.
Noein is a groove/death metal band from Rouen, France, formed in 2020, whose sound has evolved from industrial groove metal origins into a heavier groove/death metal direction. The band represents Normandy's growing extreme metal community.
Noesis is an industrial/gothic metal band from Santander in Cantabria, active since 2016. Named after the Greek philosophical concept of pure intellect, the band crafts cerebral industrial metal from Spain's Bay of Biscay coast.
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