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Not Yet Fallen is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Padua, Italy, active since 2013. They balance melody with intensity from this ancient university city in the Veneto.
Chicago's Not-Us emerged in 2021 bridging the raw aggression of hardcore with the grinding intensity of death and thrash metal, a combination the city's notoriously tough underground scene has embraced. Their trajectory from thrash/death roots toward a more hardcore-driven attack reflects a band constantly sharpening their edge, channeling urban grit into fast, confrontational music.
Toledo, Ohio's Notara came together in 2019 to deliver death/thrash metal with a precision and ferocity that punches well above the band's years in existence. Their approach fuses the surgical riffing of classic death metal with the velocity and aggression of thrash, carrying on the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extreme metal built on pure craft.
Noth is a solo project by the multi-instrumentalist known as Niili, who started in raw black metal territory with vegetarian and environmental themes before pivoting toward heavier sludge, doom, and noise textures. The 2022 EP Noth Is Nothing showcases that transition, trading primitive aggression for suffocating weight and an obsession with nothingness and psychological collapse.
Nothankyou is a raw black metal, noise rock, and drone project from London, UK, active since 2016. The project blurs the lines between raw black metal aggression and the abrasive textures of noise rock and drone.
Notheist is a progressive/groove metal band from Paris, France, formed in 2019. Their sound combines the intricate structures of progressive metal with the heavy rhythmic drive of groove metal.
Nothgard is an epic melodic death metal band from Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria, active since 2011. The band crafts sweeping, cinematic melodic death metal from the Danube valley of southeastern Bavaria.
Portland's Nothing have been operating in the bleak territory between dark ambient and industrial metal since 2010, constructing soundscapes where oppressive machinery noise and electronic texture replace conventional guitar-driven metal. Their music is more atmosphere than assault, a slow corrosion that rewards listeners willing to sit inside its industrial gloom.
Out of Reedley in California's Central Valley, Nothing play a stripped-down, mournful strain of doom metal that feels shaped by the long flat horizons and scorching silence of that landscape. Formed in 2010, the band pursues heaviness through restraint — slow tempos, low tunings, and a suffocating weight that settles rather than batters.
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