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Norwald is an epic/symphonic power metal band from Murcia, active since 2019. The band delivers grandiose power metal from the warm southeastern Spanish coast.
NouseyesuoN fuses heavy metal with orchestral classical arrangements, structuring their 2020 album Death Is Nothing To Us as a suite of nine movements — each track numbered as an Opus — covering ground from Epicurean philosophy to Mayan mythology and medieval death imagery. The band's lyrical scope is unusually literary, drawing on poetry, nihilism, and esoteric history to give the music an almost academic density.
Nova Darkness is a Chilean melodic death metal band that released their debut album Of Doom and Grief in November 2019, a ten-track record incorporating neo-classical and symphonic elements alongside death metal riffing. The band followed it with Nigredo Tenebrae in January 2024, continuing to develop a sound influenced by the melodic death metal tradition of the 1990s.
Novgorod is a black/symphonic metal band from San Donà di Piave near Venice, Italy, active since 2017. Named after the ancient Russian city, they channel Eastern European grandeur through their orchestral black metal.
Spijkenisse symphonic/melodic death metal act formed in 2014, blending orchestral grandeur with extreme metal aggression from the South Holland islands. Their cinematic approach channels the drama of symphonic metal through a death metal lens.
Nox Doloris is a black/death/symphonic metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2013. Their Latin name — meaning 'night of pain' — captures the suffering at the core of their orchestral extremity.
Nox Vorago is a progressive death/symphonic metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2012. The band combines progressive structures with death metal intensity and symphonic grandeur from Sweden's metal capital.
Nuiterra is a symphonic metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015. Their French-Latin hybrid name — evoking 'night earth' — sets the tone for their darkly orchestral sound.
Nyame is a symphonic metal band from Cuenca in Castile-La Mancha, active since 2016. Named after the supreme deity of the Akan people of West Africa, the band brings diverse cultural themes to symphonic metal from the gorge-straddling city of central Spain.
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