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Formed in Uberlândia with the explicit goal of fusing New York hardcore aggression with thrash metal heaviness, No Defeat released the EP M em M in 2010 and the full-length Escolhas Que Precedem a Conquista in 2012. Vocalist Michel "Padero" anchored their politically charged output, which drew on crossover forebears while addressing social and political themes rooted in Brazilian reality.
No Empathy is a Leipzig-based band that evolved from thrash/black metal into pure black metal since 2010. The project's name aptly describes their cold, merciless approach to extreme metal from the Saxon capital.
Long Island's No Escape launched in 2021 playing the kind of crossover thrash that splits the difference between Slayer's riff vocabulary and hardcore's blunt-force delivery — fast, mean, and unpretentious. They tap into the same working-class aggression that gave the New York/New Jersey crossover scene its teeth in the 1980s, updating the template with a modern tightness while keeping the raw urgency intact.
No Flag is a thrash metal and crossover band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. Their sound blends the speed and aggression of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.
Athens act that evolved from power metal origins into a heavier thrash direction, reflecting a restless creative trajectory that outgrew their initial melodic framework. Their stylistic shift demonstrates the pull of aggression over anthemic bombast.
Formed in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 2016, No Gods run the thrash/hardcore crossover with the blunt, no-frills aggression the genre demands — riffs yanked tight, tempos kept vicious, and attitude firmly in the pit-warfare tradition. Their name signals their worldview clearly enough: this is thrash metal stripped of any pretension, driven by the same industrial-town frustration that's powered extreme music in the Rust Belt for decades.
No Guerra is an Argentine thrash metal and metalcore band whose album titles — Ahonikenk (2010), Choiols (2012), Weychan (2014), and Traumatica (2024) — draw on the indigenous languages and cultures of Patagonia, including Mapuche and Tehuelche words. After a decade-long gap, the band returned in 2024 with Traumatica, their fourth studio album.
No Holds Barred is a death/thrash metal band from Girona in Catalonia, active since 2011. The band delivers unrestricted extreme metal from the medieval city near the French border.
No Honey is a thrash/groove metal band from Zabreh in the Olomouc region, active since 2019. The band brings a sweet name to a decidedly unsweet blend of thrash aggression and groove-metal heaviness.
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