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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
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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Nerobong is a sludge metal band from Oleggio near Novara, Italy, formed in 2023. They deliver murky, heavy sludge from the Piedmontese plains.
Nerobove is a death/thrash metal band from Catania, Sicily, active since 2018. They bring aggressive extremity from beneath the shadow of Mount Etna.
Nerodia is a black/death/thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2016. Named after the North American water snake genus, they strike with multi-genre venomous intensity.
Neron Kaisar is a black/symphonic metal band from Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan, Russia, active since 2017. Named after the Roman emperor Nero in Greek transcription, they pair imperial grandeur with extreme darkness.
Neronia is a progressive metal project from Darmstadt in Hessen. Named after the Roman Neronian era, the project channels ancient imperial themes through progressive metal from the science city south of Frankfurt.
Neropulsar is a depressive black metal project from Salerno, Italy, active since 2013. They channel cosmic desolation and despair from this Campanian coastal city.
Neros Benedictios fuse black metal's cold aggression with strongly melodic and acoustic passages, drawing lyrical material from literature, nature, occultism, and philosophical reflection rather than shock-value satanism. Their 2018 debut full-length Ermo, released on Dead Paradise Records, envelops the listener in a suffocating atmosphere of solitude, alternating between clean and guttural vocals over heavy and introspective compositions.
Eindhoven black metal project formed in 2022, channeling raw darkness from the Netherlands' fifth-largest city. Their atmospheric intensity adds to Eindhoven's growing extreme metal presence.
Nerrith is a Russian black metal project active since 2015. They operate in the underground with enigmatic, dark intensity.
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