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Neopera is a symphonic metal project from Hamburg, formed in 2025. The project brings operatic grandeur to the metal stage from northern Germany's cultural capital.
Neophobia is a symphonic metal band from Ferrara, Italy, active since 2018. They pair orchestral grandeur with heavy metal from this UNESCO-listed Renaissance city in Emilia-Romagna.
Neophobic is a melodic death metal band from Bremen, active since 2022. The band delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Hanseatic port city in northwestern Germany.
Neophyte is a death metal band from Wakefield, UK, formed in 2018. The band contributes raw death metal to West Yorkshire's extreme music underground.
Neoplasia is a brutal/technical death metal band from Punta Alta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, whose discography includes Amputation Sounds (2018) and Stirring Clots (2021), the latter featuring American session drummer Marco Pitruzzella. The band's lineup on Stirring Clots comprised David Trefilio on guitars, Juan Pablo Pereyra on vocals, and Juan Manuel Ronda on bass and vocals.
Ottersum death/doom metal act formed in 2019, merging death metal's guttural intensity with doom's crushing weight from rural Limburg. Their fusion approach channels the heaviest traditions of both genres.
Neoplasma is a death/progressive metal band from Os, Norway, active since 2013. They bring technically ambitious extreme metal from this Bjørnafjorden municipality south of Bergen.
Neoplasmah is a black/death metal band from Seixal near Lisbon, active since 2019. They deliver malignant extremity from the southern shore of the Tagus estuary.
Neoplassis is a Swiss brutal death metal project. The band delivers unrelenting, surgically precise brutal death metal from the heart of the Swiss underground.
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