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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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Novgore is a black/death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 1990. One of the oldest extreme metal acts from the Gothenburg region, the band has over three decades of underground black/death metal behind them.
Novgorod is a black/symphonic metal band from San Donà di Piave near Venice, Italy, active since 2017. Named after the ancient Russian city, they channel Eastern European grandeur through their orchestral black metal.
Novice is a doom/sludge metal band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2016. They deliver crushing heaviness with the earnest intensity their name suggests.
Novichok is a thrash metal band from Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, formed in 2021. Named with provocative intent, the band delivers aggressive thrash metal from Tyneside.
Novichoke is a Russian black/death metal project active since 2021. Their name — a dark play on the nerve agent Novichok — signals the toxic extremity of their sound.
Novigrad is a groove/death/black metal band from Glasgow, Scotland, active since 1998. Their genre-spanning approach blends groove, death, and black metal traditions across over two decades of activity.
Novitchok is a grindcore, crust punk, and black metal band from the Heidelberg-Mannheim area, active since 2021. Named after the notorious nerve agent, the band delivers a toxic blend of grind, crust, and black metal from the Rhine-Neckar region.
Active since 2012, Novitiate are a shadowy black metal act whose obscured identity — no city or state listed, a Bandcamp page under the name Vitiate — reinforces the cold anonymity their genre demands. Their music inhabits black metal's most uncompromising register, built on raw production and an atmosphere that prizes hostility over accessibility.
Novomundo is a groove metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of delivering heavy grooves from the Eternal City.
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