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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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Napalm Storm is a thrash metal band from Pedrola in Aragon, active since 2014. The band fires thrash salvos from the Ebro valley of northeastern Spain.
Napalmica is a thrash metal band from Lambersart, France, formed in 2018. The band channels the high-speed aggression and riff-driven intensity that defines thrash metal in the French underground.
Narchost is a black/thrash metal band from Prague, active since 2014. The project combines the velocity of thrash with the darkness of black metal from the Czech capital.
Narcömancer is a black/thrash metal band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2020. They conjure blackened thrash with narcotic intensity from Portugal's second city.
Nardorn is a thrash/death metal band from the Marburg and Ludwigshutte area of Hessen, active since 2020. The band merges thrash aggression with death metal heaviness from the university town in central Germany.
Zagreb death/thrash metal act formed in 2007, whose lengthy Croatian name translates roughly to 'Corporal Skull and the Death Squad,' matching their punishing blend of death and thrash metal aggression. Their nearly two decades of activity have established them in Croatia's underground.
Washington State's Narrow Grave has been sharpening its thrash metal edge since 2014, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's harder, less-celebrated underground. Tight riffing and a hostile urgency define their approach.
Elizabethtown, Kentucky's Narthex takes its name from church architecture and fills that sacred space with corrosive black metal since 2012. There's a theological tension in the project — reverence and blasphemy occupying the same room.
Nasca is a thrash metal band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2023. They bring aggressive thrash energy from Hungary's second-largest city in the Great Plains.
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