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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Featured Groove Metal Album
The Jester Race (Black Ash-Inheritance Version) (2022)
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Florence black metal act formed in 2013, channeling darkness and aggression from the Renaissance city. Their sound channels the intensity of black metal from an unexpectedly cultured setting.
Nighthaunter is a raw black metal project from Brighton, UK, formed in 2021. The band delivers lo-fi, uncompromising raw black metal from the Sussex coast.
Nighthawk is a heavy metal band from Walsrode in the Luneburg Heath region of Lower Saxony, active since 2020. The band delivers classic heavy metal from the rural heartland of northern Germany.
A raw thrash/black metal horde from the northeast, NightHunter deal in aggressive, blasphemous metal with lyrical themes of death, paganism, and alcohol-fueled misanthropy. Their discography includes the full-length "Hunting the Christian Scum" and the follow-up "The Return of the Evil Empire" (2014), both carrying the corrosive spirit of the South American underground.
Nightime Flyer is a NWOBHM-influenced heavy metal band from Wales, formed in 2022. Their sound channels the classic British heavy metal tradition with Welsh grit.
Livorno heavy metal act formed in 2013, delivering classic riff-driven energy from Tuscany's major port city. Their traditional approach channels the timeless power of heavy metal.
Nightjar is a melodic heavy metal band from Oviedo in Asturias, active since 2018. Named after the nocturnal bird, the band delivers melodic metal from the mountain-flanked capital of Spain's green north.
Buenos Aires's Nightkarnation have spent twenty years shape-shifting through raw black metal, death metal brutality, and symphonic grandeur — a rare band whose entire discography reads like a genre evolution in real time. Ambitious, restless, and fiercely independent.
Nightkiller is a French heavy/speed metal act with punk influences, formed in 2024. Their sound blends the velocity of speed metal with punk's rebellious edge and heavy metal's power.
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