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Nightmission is a heavy metal band from Dusseldorf, active since 2017. The band channels classic heavy metal from the Rhine metropolis and arts capital.
NightMyHeaven is a melodic black/death/symphonic metal band from Guimarães, Portugal, active since 2005. Two decades of activity from the city regarded as the birthplace of Portugal.
Nightmärr is a heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2019. The band plays hard-hitting traditional heavy metal from the heart of Gothenburg's legendary metal scene.
Nightporter is a power/thrash metal band from Bremen, active since 2017. The band fuses power metal melody with thrash metal velocity from the Hanseatic city-state in northwestern Germany.
Nightprowler is a heavy metal band from Dusseldorf, active since 2015. The band stalks the night with classic heavy metal from the Rhineland.
Nightqueen is a symphonic power metal band from Genk, Belgium, formed in 2017. The band brings grandiose orchestral arrangements and soaring vocals to the power metal tradition from Belgium's Limburg province.
NightQuest is a power/progressive metal band from Pančevo, Serbia, active since 2018. They deliver epic, technically ambitious metal from this Vojvodina city near Belgrade.
Nightrage was founded in Thessaloniki, Greece in 2000 by guitarist Marios Iliopoulos and guitarist Gus G, later relocating the project to Gothenburg to more directly absorb the Swedish melodic death metal scene. Their debut Sweet Vengeance (2003) featured guest vocals from At the Gates singer Tomas Lindberg and established Nightrage as a high-caliber entry in the melodic death genre. The band has continued releasing albums consistently through the 2010s and into the 2020s, most recently with Abyss Rising (2022).
Nightrealm is an atmospheric death/doom metal project from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2022. The band crafts heavy, brooding compositions that merge the weight of death metal with the sorrowful pacing of doom.
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