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Unreasonable Doubt (2024)
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A Love To Kill For (2023)
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Obnoxious (2022)
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Long Island's No Escape launched in 2021 playing the kind of crossover thrash that splits the difference between Slayer's riff vocabulary and hardcore's blunt-force delivery — fast, mean, and unpretentious. They tap into the same working-class aggression that gave the New York/New Jersey crossover scene its teeth in the 1980s, updating the template with a modern tightness while keeping the raw urgency intact.
No Excuse is a heavy metal and hard rock band from London, UK, active since 2014. The band delivers no-frills heavy metal and hard rock from the British capital.
No Fate is a German black metal project active since 2013. The project channels deterministic nihilism through over a decade of black metal.
Syracuse heavy metal act launched in 2025, delivering classic metal energy from Sicily's ancient coastal city. Their approach channels the timeless power of traditional heavy metal riffing.
No Flag is a thrash metal and crossover band from Lille, France, formed in 2019. Their sound blends the speed and aggression of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.
Athens act that evolved from power metal origins into a heavier thrash direction, reflecting a restless creative trajectory that outgrew their initial melodic framework. Their stylistic shift demonstrates the pull of aggression over anthemic bombast.
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No God Only Teeth is a sludge, post-metal, and hardcore band from Hamburg, active since 2020. The band's provocative name matches their visceral blend of sludge heaviness and hardcore fury from northern Germany.
No God Rhetoric is a grindcore and powerviolence band from Brno, Czech Republic, active since 2016. The band delivers rapid-fire blasts of political extremity from the DIY punk and grind scene of Moravia.
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