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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Nuclear Bear is a doom/stoner metal band from Kaliningrad, Russia, active since 2014. Their name conjures images of radioactive ursine power befitting their heavy, lumbering sound.
Nuclear Bulldozer is a stoner metal band from Szczecin, Poland, active since 2015. They flatten everything in their path with heavy, fuzz-laden riffs from the Pomeranian capital.
Cleveland's Nucleon came together in 2022 at the intersection of heavy metal and stoner metal, letting psychedelic drift pull against the gravity of traditional metal heaviness. The band draws on the Rust Belt's long history of loud, working-class rock while pushing into fuzzed-out, hypnotic territory. Still a young act, they've positioned themselves as part of a new wave of Ohio heavy music.
New Jersey's Nucleus has been pursuing a brand of stoner metal since 2013 that favors thick, rolling riffs and the kind of slow-burn intensity the genre does best. Their hard rock roots give the music a directness that keeps it accessible without softening the heaviness at its core. Over a decade of activity cements their place as a steady presence in the East Coast underground.
Numbah Ten is a stoner metal band from Linköping, Sweden, active since 2002. One of the longest-running stoner metal acts in the region, the band has been delivering heavy, fuzz-drenched riffs for over two decades.
Nydeaf is a solo stoner/doom metal project from Paris, France, created by a self-described music nerd making fuzzy, heavy music in his room. Their catalog, including Cosmic Inferno and What In The Universe, spans stoner rock, progressive metal, and psychedelic experimentation.
Nyeh is a sludge/stoner/doom metal band from Berlin, active since 2020. The band's onomatopoeic name captures the lazy, heavy weight of their doom-laden sound.
Nymf is a stoner metal band from Karlshamn, Sweden, active since 2011. The band delivers heavy, groove-laden stoner metal from the Blekinge coast of southeastern Sweden.
Nëwsün is a stoner metal and rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers heavy, fuzzy stoner grooves from the west of Scotland.
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