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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Neuralgia is a death metal/grindcore band from Sweden, active since 2008. The band delivers extreme metal that fuses death metal heaviness with grindcore's relentless intensity.
Neurasthenia is a doom/death metal project from Helsinki, formed in 2025. The project's name referencing the nervous exhaustion condition channels physical and mental depletion through crushing doom.
Neurasthenie is a death/black metal band with gothic influences from Limoges, France, formed in 2025. Their sound merges the aggression of death and black metal with the dark elegance of gothic undertones.
Neurax is a death/thrash and grindcore band from Mendoza, Argentina, formed in 2020 by guitarists Nicolás Romeo and Mario Salcedo, vocalist Iván Morel, and drummer Valja. The band debuted with the five-track Tongue Nailing EP in December 2020, recorded and mixed at GRUNT Records in Mendoza.
New York's Neurectomy channels brutal technical death metal into a framework that prizes precision without sacrificing violence — every cut lands clean and deep. Formed in 2023, they arrived with the aggressive confidence of a band that spent years planning their arrival.
Polish black metal project formed in 2019, channeling raw darkness and atmospheric intensity through uncompromising sonic visions. Their sound draws from the primal traditions of the Polish underground.
Neurinome is a death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2009. The band contributes to the Parisian death metal underground with their brand of heavy, unrelenting extremity.
Neuro Attack plays straight-ahead thrash metal rooted in the classic Minas Gerais underground, formed in 2016 and quickly releasing their debut EP Thrash Returns before following it with a full-length in 2018. Their sound leans on tight riffing and no-frills aggression, staying close to the genre's '80s Bay Area and German roots.
Neuro Incursion is a black metal and punk band from Carlisle, UK, formed in 2020. Their sound fuses black metal darkness with punk's raw energy from the border town of northern England.
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