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Notturno is an atmospheric black metal project from Agnone in Molise, Italy, active since 2019. Their name — Italian for 'nocturne' — captures the contemplative darkness of their sound from this ancient bell-making town.
Notturno Immenso is a doom/gothic metal band from the Randazzo/Malvagna area near Mount Etna, Sicily, active since 2016. Their name — 'immense nocturne' — captures the vast, dark expanses of their funereal compositions.
Nottus plays traditional heavy metal with all lyrics written in Portuguese, grounding the band firmly in a local identity unusual for the genre. Vocalist and main composer Cristiano Mendes steers the songwriting toward historical and religious subjects — the 2014 EP A Marcha Negra includes the track A Lança de Longino, which draws on the legend of the spear said to have pierced Christ at the crucifixion.
Notus Inlatinus is a raw black metal band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2009. The band delivers lo-fi, uncompromising raw black metal from the wine capital of southwestern France.
Noumena is a melodic death metal band from Ähtäri, Finland, with a catalog spanning over two decades from their 2002 debut Pride/Fall through 2024's Silent Words and beyond. Their Finnish-language lyrics and polished dual-vocal approach have established them as a mainstay of the Finnish melodic death metal scene.
Noumeno is a progressive metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2016. Named after the Kantian philosophical concept, they explore the unknowable through technical compositions.
Noumenon is a progressive death metal band from Munich, active since 2007. Named after the Kantian philosophical concept of the thing-in-itself, the band explores cerebral themes through nearly two decades of progressive death metal.
NouseyesuoN fuses heavy metal with orchestral classical arrangements, structuring their 2020 album Death Is Nothing To Us as a suite of nine movements — each track numbered as an Opus — covering ground from Epicurean philosophy to Mayan mythology and medieval death imagery. The band's lyrical scope is unusually literary, drawing on poetry, nihilism, and esoteric history to give the music an almost academic density.
Noutaja is a Helsinki-based death metal band signed to Inverse Records, delivering aggressive old-school death metal across releases like Never Meant To Save Us. Their sound channels the raw power and compositional depth of classic Scandinavian death metal.
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