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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Nekyia Orchestra is a sludge and post-metal band from Berlin, active since 2013. The band crafts expansive, orchestral-tinged sludge and post-metal from the German capital.
Nekyros is a Buenos Aires black metal project formed by Cristián Yans (guitars, bass) and Dany (vocals, drum programming), both also known from Los Males del Mundo. Their debut album Nyxian Path was released on March 7, 2025 via German label Northern Silence Productions, with guest vocalist Ylva de Lune appearing on the opening track; the album was recorded and mixed in Argentina between 2020 and 2023.
Nel Buio is an Italian black metal project formed in 2024. Their name — meaning 'in the dark' in Italian — captures the essential black metal aesthetic.
Nelabais is a black metal project from Riga, Latvia, active since 2014. They contribute to the Baltic region's small but dedicated black metal community.
Nelagodnost is a Viennese black metal project formed in 2023, with releases including 'Schwarzmalerei' and 'Seelenflucht.' The project's name and Cyrillic-titled track 'Praskozorje' suggest Slavic roots channeled through the Austrian black metal tradition.
Nelandhir is a folk/black metal project from Nohfelden in the Saarland, active since 2014. The project blends folk melodies with black metal aggression from the forested hills of the Hunsruck region.
Neldoreth is a thrash/death metal band from Erandio in the Basque Country, active since 2013. Named after the forest in Tolkien's Beleriand, the band fuses fantasy themes with thrash-death aggression from the Bilbao metropolitan area.
Nelly Olsen is a stoner/doom metal and rock band from Leipzig, active since 2013. Named after the Little House on the Prairie character, the band brings an incongruous name to heavy stoner doom from the Saxon cultural capital.
Neltharia is a power metal band from Villarrobledo in Castile-La Mancha, active since 2019. The band delivers soaring power metal from the wine-producing heartland of central Spain.
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