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Neura is a groove metal band from Donostia-San Sebastian in the Basque Country, active since 2015. The band delivers heavy groove riffing from the elegant seaside capital of Gipuzkoa.
Neural Abyss play old-school death metal rooted in misanthropy and nihilism, with a sound that draws on the early Brazilian death metal tradition. The Campina Grande three-piece — Vitor Giovanni on bass and vocals, Luênya Van Ripper on guitar, and Relrys Silva on drums — released their debut full-length Everything Is Over in late 2025 via My Dark Desires Records.
Neural Death is a young death metal outfit from Franca whose 2024 demo Guerras announced their arrival with three tracks of blunt, unpolished brutality. The trio — Aladdin on guitars, Iury on drums, and Sarthory handling bass and vocals — recorded the demo at Sala 7 studio and released it in early 2024.
Neural Dissonance is a progressive death metal band from Santiago, Chile, featuring guitarist Roger Meirelles, bassist Israel Aguilar, vocalist and synthesizer player Enzo Dañobeytía, and drummer David Astorga. The band released their debut album "Under a Rain of Senses" on April 28, 2023, a ten-track record mixed and mastered at Nihil Records that blends technical death metal structures with groove and progressive elements.
Neural Oestridae is a solo depressive black metal project born from a need to channel depression, despair, and nihilism into sound rather than keep them internal. The project debuted with the homemade demo Tired of All in 2016 and has since contributed to compilations of the Brazilian DSBM underground, including Coletânea de DSBM Nacional volumes.
Neural Wreck is the one-man progressive thrash project of JC Martins, whose debut EP Mortal Obsession (2015) drew on the precision of Exodus and the melodic ambition of Queensrÿche to build a sound that's technically driven but never cold. The project's follow-up single "Beautiful Day (Killing People)" continued that thread with lyrics grounded in class consciousness and political critique, making Neural Wreck one of the more deliberately minded voices in the São Paulo underground.
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.
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