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Featured Album
"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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nuiterra is a symphonic metal band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2015. Their French-Latin hybrid name — evoking 'night earth' — sets the tone for their darkly orchestral sound.
Mariupol atmospheric post-black metal act formed in 2019, blending contemplative textures with black metal's intensity from one of Ukraine's most devastated cities. Their art takes on added poignancy given the destruction of their hometown.
Nuke from Orbit is a death/sludge metal band from Västra Götaland, Sweden, active since 2017. The band combines death metal brutality with sludge metal's crushing weight from western Sweden.
Nukebirds is a heavy metal and punk band from London, UK, active since 2014. Their sound fuses the power of heavy metal with punk's raw energy and rebellious attitude.
Nuked Cross is a thrash metal band from Zielona Góra, Poland, active since 2013. They bring irradiated thrash from the capital of Lubusz Voivodeship in western Poland.
Nuked Mind is a metalcore/thrash metal band from Smederevo, Serbia, active since 2017. They bring modern aggression from this Danubian steel-producing city south of Belgrade.
Nukekubi is a French raw black metal project formed in 2021. Named after a creature from Japanese folklore, the project delivers raw black metal intensity.
Nukke is a melodic death metal project from Finland, formed in 2021. The band contributes to Finland's rich melodic death metal lineage with compositions that balance aggression and melody.
Nuklear Annihilation is a black metal project from Kyustendil, Bulgaria, whose 2013 debut 'Goat ov Annihilation' delivers short, ferocious blasts of what the project tags as 'nuklear black metal.' The project takes a scorched-earth approach to black metal from southwestern Bulgaria.
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