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Nosgoroth is a German black metal project active since 2016. The project delivers dark, uncompromising black metal from the German underground.
Nosophoros is a black metal project from Stralsund on the Baltic coast of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, active since 2011. The project channels pestilent black metal from the historic Hanseatic port city.
Nosphares is a doom/death metal band from Morville-sur-Nied in eastern France. Their sound merges the slow, crushing weight of doom with death metal's aggressive edge.
Nospheratu is a death metal and grindcore project from Osterwieck in the Harz region, formed in 2025. The project brings vampiric extremity to the foothills of Germany's mythical mountain range.
Operating under the abbreviation N.Ó.I.A. — a Portuguese slang pun meaning dopey or paranoid — this São Paulo grindcore outfit delivered blasts of politically charged noise across a run of splits and compilations between 2012 and 2016. Their discography includes the debut Gritos de Horror, a split with Instinct of Suicide, an Agathocles cover, and the Correntes da Tirania split with Smelling Fétid Corpse.
Nostalghia is an experimental and atmospheric post-black metal project based in Mexico City, Mexico, that began releasing music in 2020. The project is prolific, having put out multiple full-lengths including Obsequies for Lost Memories (2020), Lifeless (2021), Olvido (2022), and Au milieu de l'hiver (2022), all as an unsigned independent act. Themes across their catalog address loss, grief, depression, and death.
Murrieta's Nostalgia have been carrying the heavy/thrash torch since 2004, delivering a sound rooted in the classic American metal tradition — crunching riffs, hooky choruses, and an energy that nods to the genre's glory days without feeling like a museum piece. Two decades into their run, they represent Southern California's persistent underground drive to keep classic metal alive and uncompromising.
A heavy metal act with a penchant for horror and classic metal aesthetics, Nostalgica released three records in 2021 — the self-titled Nostalgica, Melissa, and Horrorplane — establishing a sound that draws as much from B-movie atmosphere as it does from traditional heavy metal riffing. Tracks like "Battles to Win" and "Horrorplane" reflect the band's B-grade horror fixations filtered through straightforward, hook-driven metal.
Nostalgie Depression was a one-person depressive black metal and ambient project from Santiago, active from 2012 until splitting up, created by the sole member Adramelejch. The project released several albums through Ukrainian label Depressive Illusions Records, including Del Cerro a la Luz Resplandeciente bajo el Sol and El Canto de las Aves en la Niebla in 2014 and Psychedelic Eyes in 2015, exploring themes of misanthropy, depression, and melancholy.
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