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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Noituma is a folk/pagan black metal band from Kokkola, Finland, blending Nordic folk traditions with black metal aggression. Their releases including Ruoto and Tervahauta draw on Finnish pagan heritage and the natural world of the Nordic landscape.
Noituus is a Finnish black metal band active since 2010, delivering a raw and confrontational style that incorporates punk energy into their extreme metal foundation. Their Finnish-language catalog, spanning albums like Sodomoitu raamattu and Under A MÖGÄ Moon, reveals a band unafraid to push boundaries within black metal's framework.
Noiz is a death metal band from Wolfsburg, the Volkswagen city in Lower Saxony, formed in 2023. The band brings industrial-strength death metal to the automotive capital of Germany.
Noizegate is a NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal band from Deeside, formed in 2024. The band revives the classic New Wave of British Heavy Metal sound.
Noizer is a death metal and grindcore band from Aprilia near Latina, Italy, active since 2012. They deliver relentless extremity from this Lazio town south of Rome.
Utrecht groove metal act formed in 2011, delivering crushing rhythmic heaviness from the Netherlands' fourth-largest city. Their weighty approach channels the genre's tradition of headbanging grooves.
Nojo is a death/thrash metal band from Braga, Portugal, active since 2013. Their name — Portuguese for 'disgust' — drives the revulsion-fueled intensity of their extreme metal.
Noking is a Russian black metal project active since 2017. They deliver raw black metal with the enigmatic quality their cryptic name suggests.
NoKnownCure is a thrash metal band from Seaton, UK, active since 2017. The band delivers high-speed thrash metal from the Devon coast.
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