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Naamath is a black/doom/sludge metal band from Yekaterinburg, Russia, active since 2017. Named after a biblical figure, they combine crushing genres from the Ural Mountains capital.
Naava is a sludge/doom metal band from Helsinki, active since 2013. The band's Finnish name meaning 'lichen' captures the slow, organic growth of their doom from the Finnish capital.
Nabla Dot is a progressive/sludge metal band from Turin, Italy, formed in 2023. They build dense, textured compositions from Italy's northwest industrial capital.
Nadsad is a sludge/stoner metal band from Krasnodar, Russia, active since 2017. They deliver heavy, fuzzy grooves from this major city in southern Russia.
Naga is a doom/sludge metal band from Naples, Italy, active since 2013. Named after the serpentine deities of Hindu-Buddhist mythology, they coil around massive, crushing riffs.
Nagasaki Birth Defect is a genre-defying extreme metal trio from Leicester, UK, self-described as fast/sludge/ambient/noise/prog/grind weirdos. Their 2024 album Friendship, Yay! delivers sixteen tracks of chaotic, provocatively titled grindcore and progressive metal.
Nahrayan is a sludge/death/doom metal band from Elche in southeastern Spain, active since 2002. Over two decades of crushing doom from the city of palm groves make them one of the longest-running extreme acts in the Valencia region.
Naisian is an atmospheric sludge metal band from Sheffield, UK, active since 2011, creating heavy music that spans post-metal, doom, sludge, and progressive rock. Known for multiple hiatuses and comebacks, their 2012 album Monocle was remixed and remastered for a 2024 re-release.
Portland's Nanda Devi — named for the Himalayan peak — channels the weight and grandeur of their namesake into towering sludge and post-metal built for rainy Pacific Northwest introspection. Formed in 2019, the band favors breadth over speed.
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