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Night Shall Drape Us is a Finnish black metal project born from the vision of sole instrumentalist LRH, featuring guest vocalists from the Nordic underground. Their 2024 Season of Mist debut Lunatic Choir delivers fast, melodic, and uncompromising black metal exploring themes of cosmic horror and defiance.
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Rome progressive metal act formed in 2012, crafting intricate compositions from Italy's capital. Their cerebral approach channels progressive metal's structural ambition with technical precision.
Night Slasher is a black/speed metal band from Vilnius, Lithuania, formed in 2023. They deliver high-velocity aggression from the Baltic capital.
Santa Fe's Night Soil have been grinding out gnarly, no-frills thrash since 2004, two decades deep and still hitting with the force of a shovel to the skull. Weathered and relentless, pure New Mexico grime.
Long Beach's Night Stalker hunt down their prey with lean, stripped-back thrash that draws on the Southern California scene's tradition of speed and attitude. Fast, loud, and absolutely uninterested in subtlety.
Night Sun is a progressive rock and heavy metal band from Hamburg, formed in 2023. The band merges progressive rock ambition with heavy metal power from the Hanseatic city.
Night Symphony is a melodic death and folk metal band from Rivas-Vaciamadrid near the Spanish capital, active since 2013. The band weaves folk melodies into melodic death metal from the Madrid metropolitan area.
Kozani-based act that evolved from straightforward thrash metal into a more technical death/thrash hybrid, reflecting an ambition that outgrew their initial boundaries. Their progression from raw speed to intricate brutality mirrors a band constantly pushing their own musical limits.
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