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Featured Album
Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Green Man Rising (Demo) (2017)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Eye Of The Beholder (Live At Hammersmith Odeon, London, England / October 10th, 1988) (2018)
06/25 @ Hampden Park National Stadium, Glasgow
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Ninemia is a progressive groove/thrash metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2024. The project merges progressive complexity with groove-driven thrash from the Cypriot metal underground.
Niobe is a folk rock/metal band from Valencia, formed in 2023. Named after the tragic figure of Greek mythology, the project channels mythological themes through folk-infused metal from Spain's Mediterranean coast.
Named for the corpse-gnawing serpent coiled at the roots of Yggdrasil, Niohoggr emerged from Yauco in 2017 carrying the cold, misanthropic fury of black metal at its most confrontational. Their music channels the Norwegian second-wave aesthetic through a lens that feels distinctly isolated and relentless, with tremolo-drenched riffs and blasted percussion conjuring something genuinely hostile.
Nion is a gothic metal band from Saarbrucken, active since 2019. The band crafts dark, atmospheric gothic metal from the capital of the Saarland on the French border.
Nioth Korghai is a black metal project from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2025. The project is among the newest additions to Germany's vast black metal landscape.
Niovel is a symphonic power metal band from Linz am Rhein in the Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2021. The band delivers orchestral power metal from the scenic Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Athenian black metal entity active since 2011, contributing to one of Europe's most prolific extreme metal scenes. Their sustained presence in the Greek underground speaks to a dedication to the genre's uncompromising darkness.
A solo atmospheric black metal project whose debut EP Sun Kills Every Thing arrived in 2017, blending tremolo-driven riffs with ambient textures and expansive, depressive moods. The project draws on the more introspective strand of the genre, favoring atmosphere and emotional weight over outright aggression.
Nirnaeth is a black/death metal band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. The band contributes to northern France's growing extreme metal scene with their fusion of black and death metal.
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