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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nomad Soul is a heavy/power metal band from the Bochum-Herne area of the Ruhr Valley, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of power metal from the industrial heartland make them a fixture of the Ruhr's metal community.
Formed by Griffin, Ascheswolf, and Arthan Deadhymns, Nomades play a raw and ritualistic pagan black metal steeped in the mythologies and ancestral shadows of northeastern Brazil. From their limited first demo Eras de Sangue (2012) through to their 2023 full-length Paganus, the horde has maintained an atmosphere of archaic defiance and pagan darkness.
Nomadic Reign is a stoner/doom metal band from Hertfordshire, UK. Their sound combines the fuzzy grooves of stoner metal with the crushing weight of doom.
Nomadic Rituals is a sludge/doom metal band from Belfast, Northern Ireland, active since 2012. The band delivers crushing sludge and doom metal from the Northern Irish capital.
Out of Rosamond, California — a high desert town between the Mojave and the Sierra Nevada — Nomar emerged in 2021 playing heavy/thrash metal that carries some of that sun-baked isolation in its tone. Their Bandcamp handle references 1971, a nod to the classic heavy rock and proto-metal era that clearly informs the band's no-frills approach to riffcraft. Nomar occupies the space where heavy metal's melodic instincts and thrash's kinetic energy collide without overcorrecting toward either extreme.
Nomasta is a sludge metal band from Leeds, UK, active since 2017. The band channels heavy, grinding sludge metal from West Yorkshire.
Nome is a gothic/heavy metal band from the Alajärvi and Vimpeli area of Finland, formed in 2010. Their sound merges the dark, melancholic atmosphere of gothic metal with the driving power of traditional heavy metal.
Nomed is a thrash/death metal band from Le Havre, France, formed in 2019. The band delivers aggressive thrash/death metal from Normandy's historic port city.
Heavy/thrash metal act from Ioannina formed in 2021, whose Latin name translates to 'Death is their name,' matching an aggressive sound rooted in classic metal traditions. Their northwestern Greek origins connect them to a region increasingly known for its metal output.
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