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Nirrti is a psychedelic black metal project from Orlova in the Czech Republic's Silesian region, active since 2022. Named after the Vedic goddess of destruction, the project merges hallucinogenic atmospheres with black metal from the coal-country border region.
Nishkk is a blackened death metal project from Valdepenas in Castile-La Mancha, formed in 2025. The project brings extreme metal to the wine-producing heartland of central Spain.
Nisshin Maru is a sludge metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. Named controversially after the Japanese whaling ship, they deliver marine-weight sludge.
Nistikko was a Finnish grindcore band from Tornio, active from 2007 to 2023. Across a prolific run of releases including Hävitys, Kehä, and various splits, they delivered relentless, punishing grindcore in the Finnish-language tradition.
NITE is a San Francisco, California blackened heavy metal band formed in 2018 by Van Labrakis, Scott Hoffman, Bryan Coons, and Pat Crawford, fusing first-wave black metal rawness with traditional heavy metal riffing and a gothic undertow. Their debut Darkness Silence Mirror Flame was released in 2020 on Creator-Destructor Records, establishing a sound that draws from Venom, Mercyful Fate, and classic NWOBHM alongside modern black metal atmospherics. Voices of the Kronian Moon and the Decibel-lauded Cult of the Serpent Sun (2025) solidified their standing as one of the more distinctive acts in the contemporary blackened heavy metal revival. The band is signed to Season of Mist.
Ravenna heavy metal act formed in 2015, delivering classic metal energy from Emilia-Romagna's historic capital. Their traditional approach channels the riff-driven power of heavy metal's foundational era.
Nitelyne is a NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Colwyn Bay in North Wales, formed in 2017. Their sound revives the classic British heavy metal sound from the Welsh coast.
Brooklyn's Nitesoil arrived in 2020 with a death metal sound rooted firmly in the fetid, churning tradition — dense riffs, guttural vocals, and a production aesthetic that feels caked in grime. Coming out of New York City's perpetually fertile underground, they bring an urban brutality to the genre that suits their surroundings, leaning into the punishing end of the death metal spectrum without apology.
Nithe is a black/death/thrash metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, formed in 2021. They deliver triple-genre aggression from southern Norway's Sørlandet coast.
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