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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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Nely Arocalypse is a Chilean solo metal project blending old-school heavy metal and thrash with acoustic folk and rock elements. The project launched with the debut album "Antiplanic Winter" in October 2020, described as "heavy metal forged from the mined metals of Chile and the world," followed by the 24-track acoustic record "Salar de Acoustica" in June 2021.
Long Island's Nemacyte fuses deathcore's low-end beatdowns with metalcore melodicism and outright death metal brutality, landing somewhere in the aggressive center of all three. The band carries the New York metropolitan area's tradition of heavy music that demands physical response.
Nemaiah is a thrash metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden, active since 2012. The band delivers aggressive thrash metal from the southwestern Swedish coast across the strait from Denmark.
Nemain is a gothic/black metal and darkwave band from Darlington, UK, formed in 2016. Named after the Irish goddess of war, their sound blends the darkness of black metal with gothic and darkwave atmospheres.
Nemaind is a melodic death metal band from Barcelona, active since 2015. The band brings Gothenburg-influenced melodeath to the vibrant Catalan music scene.
Neman is a melodic death metal band from Bar, Montenegro, active since 2011. Named after the Slavic mythological figure, they bring extreme metal to this small Adriatic port town.
California technical death metal project Nematocyst takes its name from the stinging cell of a jellyfish — and the music delivers accordingly, with precise, venomous riffwork that locks into intricate rhythmic patterns. Formed in 2024, they hit the ground running with clear technical ambitions.
Nematomorphos is a death/thrash metal band from Tarouca in central Portugal, active since 2020. Named after the parasitic hairworm phylum, they bring biological horror to their metal.
Nembo is a stoner metal band from Viterbo, Italy, active since 2019. Their name — Italian for 'storm cloud' — evokes the gathering heaviness of their fuzzy, riff-laden sound.
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