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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Novem is a black metal project from Moscow, Russia, active since 2018. Their Latin name — meaning 'nine' — carries numerological significance within their dark aesthetic.
November Eternal is a depressive black metal project from Paris, France, formed in 2024. The project channels melancholy and despair through the raw emotional framework of depressive black metal.
A very recent formation out of New England, November Fire arrived in 2024 playing psychedelic doom and stoner metal that carries the languid, fuzz-drenched weight of the region's long winters. Their Bandcamp presence signals a band already thinking beyond the riff, incorporating psychedelic drift into a doom framework that emphasizes mood and slow-burning intensity over speed.
November-7 is a gothic and industrial metal band split between Neuchatel, Switzerland and London, with a prolific catalog spanning 'Season 3' through 2023's 'Interstellar.' Their sound bridges industrial rock and metal across five releases, evolving from their 2011 origins into a cross-continental project.
Novembre is a death/doom/gothic/progressive metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2020. They are one of Italy's most respected progressive extreme metal acts, known for their emotionally profound and musically adventurous compositions.
Novena is a progressive metal and rock band from London, UK, active since 2016. The band crafts intricate, evolving compositions that push the boundaries of progressive heavy music.
Novercalis is a black/death metal project from Gland, Switzerland, formed in 2025. The project is among the newest additions to the francophone Swiss extreme metal underground.
Novere is a progressive post-rock/metal band from London, UK, formed in 2021. Their sound blends the expansive atmospheres of post-rock with the heavy dynamics of progressive metal.
Noveria is a power/progressive metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2013. They craft polished, technically ambitious melodic metal from the Italian capital.
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