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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Najing is a post-metal band from Pisa, Italy, formed in 2023. They craft atmospheric, expansive soundscapes from this iconic Tuscan university city.
Najt is a black metal band from Chihuahua, Mexico, formed in 2019. The band released their debut EP A Sight to the Abyss in February 2019, a four-track recording blending symphonic and extreme black metal elements.
Nakaa is a black metal project from Wurzburg in Lower Franconia, active since 2018. The project channels black metal darkness from the baroque university city on the River Main.
Nakba is a death metal band from Molfetta near Bari, Italy, active since 2020. Their politically charged name — the Arabic term for the Palestinian displacement — accompanies brutal death metal.
Naked Reagan is a thrash metal and grindcore band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2021. The band delivers high-speed, aggressive extreme metal from Scotland's largest city.
Naked Star is a doom metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, active since 2016. The band delivers heavy, riff-driven doom metal from the wine-growing capital of Franconia.
Cincinnati's Naked Truth has been playing honest, muscle-bound heavy metal since 2011, the kind that owes more to sweat and conviction than production polish. A steady presence in the Ohio underground.
Naked Whipper is a black metal and grindcore band from Reinheim in Hessen, one of Germany's most seasoned extreme acts with origins reaching back to 1993. Over three decades, the project has fused black metal's misanthropy with grindcore's violent brevity.
Nakhara is a one-man progressive death metal project from Rambouillet, France, created by Saïmon of Pitbulls In The Nursery. The project fuses technical, brutal death metal with exotic instrumentation including Indian sitar, classical guitar, and accordion, producing an original sound described as progressive, technical, and steeped in oriental sonorities.
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