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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Nothing More to Eat is a Finnish grindcore and death metal band from Helsinki, active since 2010. With three albums of short, punishing tracks blending grindcore ferocity with hardcore aggression, they deliver a relentless sonic assault rooted in the Finnish extreme underground.
Nothing New in Heaven is a melodic death metal band from Reims, France, formed in 2022. The band brings melodic death metal to the champagne capital, adding to the city's growing metal scene.
Savage Death Metal from Wichita Falls.
Connecticut's Nothing Sacred blend progressive metal's compositional ambition with the punch of thrash and the melodic instincts of classic heavy metal, emerging in 2020 as one of the Northeast's more technically adventurous acts. The band pushes arrangements beyond conventional verse-chorus structures, letting their progressive tendencies breathe without losing the momentum that thrash demands.
Nothing, I Know is a metalcore band from Modena, Italy, active since 2018. They channel emotional intensity through modern metalcore from Emilia-Romagna.
Nothingfaith is a progressive metal band from Worgl in the Tyrolean region of Austria, active since 2013. The project explores the more cerebral and technically adventurous side of metal from western Austria.
Minneapolis death metal outfit Nothingness formed in 2019 and have quickly carved out a place in Minnesota's thriving underground extreme metal scene with a sound that is unrelenting and purposefully unadorned. They favor the direct brutality of classic death metal — dense low-end, churning rhythms, and vocals dredged from somewhere beneath the frost line.
Nothung is a heavy/thrash metal band from Potenza, Basilicata, active since 2021. Named after the legendary sword from the Nibelungenlied and Wagner's Ring cycle, they forge sharp-edged metal from southern Italy's highlands.
Nothzog is a German black metal project formed in 2025. The project is among the newest entrants in Germany's vast and ever-growing black metal scene.
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