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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Nekrosity is a death metal band from Uddevalla, Sweden, active since 2013. The band delivers punishing death metal from the Bohuslän coast of western Sweden.
Nekroskop is a black metal/crust punk/death metal band from Malmö, Sweden, active since 2013. The band fuses extreme metal aggression with the raw energy of crust punk from Sweden's third-largest city.
Nekrospawn is a Russian black metal project active since 2012. They channel spawning darkness through raw, underground black metal.
Nekrosun is a progressive metal band from Varese, Italy, active since 2009. They craft complex, evolving compositions with a dark edge from the Lombardy pre-Alps.
Punishing Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.
Nekrotik Flesh is a death metal and crust band from Liverpool, UK, formed in 2020. Their sound merges death metal heaviness with the raw punk energy of crust from the Merseyside underground.
Nekrotisk is a black metal band from Birmingham, UK, formed in 2021. The band delivers raw black metal from the heavy metal birthplace of the English Midlands.
Nekrovault is a death metal band from Memmingen in the Allgau region, founded in 2016 with a mission to rebirth 'the genuine and dark art of total Death Metal.' Their catalog including 'Totenzug: Festering Peregrination' features a four-piece lineup delivering old-school death metal with sepulchral devotion.
Nekroverse is a black metal project from Lohja in southern Finland, active since 2013. The project explores dark dimensions through black metal from the lakeside town west of Helsinki.
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