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Out of Oklahoma City, Nuclear Wizard arrived in 2016 with a thrash metal attack grounded in the classic American tradition — tight riff construction, aggression, and momentum that rarely lets up. The Midwest setting gives their sound a certain blue-collar directness, absent the coastal scene posturing that sometimes dilutes the genre. They've kept the project alive and running for nearly a decade.
Cleveland's Nucleon came together in 2022 at the intersection of heavy metal and stoner metal, letting psychedelic drift pull against the gravity of traditional metal heaviness. The band draws on the Rust Belt's long history of loud, working-class rock while pushing into fuzzed-out, hypnotic territory. Still a young act, they've positioned themselves as part of a new wave of Ohio heavy music.
New Jersey's Nucleus has been pursuing a brand of stoner metal since 2013 that favors thick, rolling riffs and the kind of slow-burn intensity the genre does best. Their hard rock roots give the music a directness that keeps it accessible without softening the heaviness at its core. Over a decade of activity cements their place as a steady presence in the East Coast underground.
Nucleus Torn is an avant-garde and folk metal project from Ittigen near Bern, Switzerland, active since 2006. The project pushes the boundaries of metal with experimental arrangements that incorporate folk instrumentation and progressive songwriting.
Formed by Thomas and Edu in the mid-2000s, Nuclëar Fröst channel Swedish d-beat hardcore, Japanese crust, and 1980s thrash into a politically charged war-metal hybrid. Their 2009 album Nuclear Winter Gloom and the 2014 self-titled EP show a band equally indebted to Discharge and early Bathory, with antifascist and nuclear-apocalypse lyrics running throughout. They have also appeared on several international splits alongside acts from the global crust underground.
Nuctemeron is a black/speed metal band from Trier in the Rhineland-Palatinate, active since 2016. Named after the mystical concept of the twelve hours of the night, the band channels occult speed metal from Germany's oldest city.
One of the more savage relics of the late-1980s underground, Nuctemeron played a brutal and primitive blackened noise-grind that positioned them alongside other uncompromising Brazilian extreme acts of the era. Their 1990 demo Industrial Pollution and the captured chaos of the 1991 live tape Last Massacre represent the entirety of their output, later compiled on the FOAD Records release Posers Mutilation 1989–1991.
Nudimmud draw on Mesopotamian mythology and demonology for both their name and their thematic framework, weaving those ancient references into coldly atmospheric black metal. Their 2012 split with Natimorto on Hammer of Damnation, titled Anointed in Angel Blood, introduced tracks like Melammu Xul and Daughters of Lot — occult-inflected compositions that show a band more interested in ritualistic weight than in speed.
Nudo is a heavy/power metal band from San Javier in the Murcia region, active since 2018. The band delivers classic metal from the Mar Menor lagoon coast of southeastern Spain.
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