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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Athenian project blending atmospheric black metal with dungeon synth, creating immersive sonic landscapes that bridge extreme metal's intensity with synthesizer-driven fantasy worlds. Formed in 2025, they represent the newest intersection of these complementary underground traditions.
Night Viper is a heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2015. Featuring powerful female vocals and excellent riffs, the band's debut on Svart Records delivers high-energy heavy metal with thrash influences that has earned widespread acclaim in the underground.
Night Vision is a NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Derby, UK, formed in 2017. Their sound revives the spirit of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal from the heart of the East Midlands.
Night Wolf is a French heavy metal band formed in 2019, channeling the spirit of classic heavy metal with raw energy and traditional songcraft.
Nightbane is a heavy/groove metal band from Lubeck on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024. The band brings hard-hitting groove to the historic Hanseatic port city.
Nightbearer is a death metal band from Paderborn in North Rhine-Westphalia, active since 2019. The band delivers punishing death metal from the cathedral city in the Westphalian heartland.
Nightblood is a gothic metal project from St. Gallen, Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project is among the newest entrants in eastern Switzerland's metal scene, channeling dark romanticism through gothic metal.
Nightborn is a thrash metal band from Sweden, active since 2017. The band delivers aggressive Scandinavian thrash metal with relentless energy.
Natal's Nightbreath have been ploughing brutal death metal since the late 1990s, with early demos establishing their anti-religious stance and crushing approach to the genre. The lineup has included guitarist Herman Souza, a veteran of fellow Natal outfit Sanctifier, lending the band a lineage that feeds into the broader northeastern Brazilian extreme metal underground.
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