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Formed in Uberlândia with the explicit goal of fusing New York hardcore aggression with thrash metal heaviness, No Defeat released the EP M em M in 2010 and the full-length Escolhas Que Precedem a Conquista in 2012. Vocalist Michel "Padero" anchored their politically charged output, which drew on crossover forebears while addressing social and political themes rooted in Brazilian reality.
Zaporizhia death metal act launched in 2024, delivering brutal extremity from southern Ukraine's Dnipro River city. Their punishing approach channels the newest wave of Ukrainian death metal.
No Empathy is a Leipzig-based band that evolved from thrash/black metal into pure black metal since 2010. The project's name aptly describes their cold, merciless approach to extreme metal from the Saxon capital.
Out of Ithaca, New York, No End have been tearing through crust-inflected grindcore since 2016 — short, violent bursts of d-beat chaos and blastbeat fury that carry the DIY ethics of both the punk and metal underground. Their Bandcamp handle (noendnoise) is a fair warning: this is noise with a point, driven by the kind of righteous disgust that's always animated the grindcore and crust tradition at its most earnest.
No End in Sight is a metalcore band from Stuttgart, active since 2012. The band has delivered over a decade of metalcore from the capital of Baden-Wurttemberg.
No Epitaph is a progressive and technical death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, active since 2014. The project blends the intricate compositional structures of technical death metal with melodic and progressive elements, as heard on their 2014 self-titled release and the 2017 single "Dark Tranquility." Operating independently, the band channels influences from across the technical and progressive death metal spectrum.
No Epitaph is a progressive and technical death metal band from Quito, Ecuador, active since 2014. The project blends the intricate compositional structures of technical death metal with melodic and progressive elements, as heard on their 2014 self-titled release and the 2017 single "Dark Tranquility." Operating independently, the band channels influences from across the technical and progressive death metal spectrum.
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.
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