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Nocturnal Emission is a death metal and grindcore band from Benesov nad Ploucnici in northern Bohemia, with origins stretching back to 1981, making them one of the earliest extreme metal acts in what is now the Czech Republic. Their remarkable longevity spans over four decades of grinding extremity.
Nocturnal Escape is a progressive black/death metal band from Augsburg, active since 2015. The band fuses progressive ambition with extreme metal intensity from the Swabian city on the Lech River.
Nocturnal Eternity is a symphonic metal band from Târgu Mureș, Romania, formed in 2023. They bring orchestral ambition from this historically significant Transylvanian city.
Nocturnal Exorcism is a Finnish black metal band from Vantaa that emerged in 2024 with releases including the albums Penumbra and I. Their music channels the raw intensity and atmospheric darkness characteristic of Finland's deep black metal underground.
Pennsauken, New Jersey's Nocturnal Fear have been delivering punishing crossover thrash since 2008, blending the pit-ready aggression of hardcore with the velocity of thrash and the bruising weight of death metal. Their sound sits at the collision point of genres — close to the street-level fury of bands like Nuclear Assault but with a nastier, more death-metal-informed bite. More than fifteen years into their run, they've remained one of New Jersey's most persistently aggressive metal outfits.
Nocturnal Fears is a death/industrial metal band from Lille, France, active since 2008. Their sound merges the aggression of death metal with mechanized industrial textures from northern France's underground.
Nocturnal Fiend is a Lithuanian black metal project active since 2016. They haunt the Baltic night with their dark, atmospheric sound.
Nocturnal Flame is a black metal project from Cosio Valtellino in the Sondrio province, Italy, formed in 2023. They ignite darkness from the Alpine valleys of upper Lombardy.
Nocturnal Fog are a two-piece raw black thrash outfit built around Oldskull on vocals, guitar, and bass, and drummer Deathhammer, debuting with the 2014 EP Manifestation of the Essence before delivering the 2017 cassette Nocturnal Ritual — five tracks of speed-driven riffing and barked vocals recorded with characteristic lo-fi grit. The band also contributed to a 2015 tribute to Quorthon, signaling the direct first-wave Bathory influence that runs through their sound.
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