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AntiFragile (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Nacht Butcher is a black/thrash metal band from Rouen, France, whose 2017 debut The Wrong Mood delivers five tracks of aggressive extreme metal spanning black, death, and thrash influences. Their sound channels the raw energy of the French underground metal scene.
NAFT is a thrash, stoner, and heavy metal band from Copenhagen, active since 2021. The band delivers a volatile fusion of thrash energy with stoner grooves from the Danish capital.
Relentless Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.
Nahum is a death/thrash metal band from Ostrava, the Czech Republic's third-largest city, active since 2013. The band brings aggressive death-thrash crossover from the Silesian coal country of northeastern Moravia.
Nailbreaker is a crossover thrash band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. They break through with high-energy thrash-punk fury from the Russian capital.
Nailgun is a heavy/thrash metal band from Walldurn in Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2020. The band fires rapid-fire thrash and heavy metal from the rural Odenwald region of southwestern Germany.
Nailgunner is a thrash metal band from Joutseno in southeastern Finland, formed in 2026. The project is among the newest Finnish thrash acts.
Naja is a metalcore/thrash metal band from Trieste, Italy, formed in 2022. Named after the cobra genus, they strike with venomous aggression from this Adriatic border city.
Naked Reagan is a thrash metal and grindcore band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2021. The band delivers high-speed, aggressive extreme metal from Scotland's largest city.
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