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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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NZGL is a Parisian black metal project formed in 2019. The band contributes to Paris's vibrant and diverse black metal underground.
Naire is an atmospheric sludge metal and crust band from Linz, Austria, delivering harrowing post-metal that addresses humanity's exploitation of the earth. Their five-piece lineup released 'Epoch' in 2021 and the full-length 'The Age of Man' in 2024, both recorded at Doom Studios by Markus Matzinger.
Nàttsòl is a black/folk metal band from Ålesund, Norway, active since 2010. Their Old Norse-inflected name combines night with sun, reflecting the duality of their folk-infused black metal.
Namol is a death/doom metal band from Prague, formed in 2023. The project pairs death metal brutality with doom's crushing weight from the Czech capital.
Náttfari is a black metal project from Motala, Sweden, active since 2011. Named with an Old Norse word meaning 'night traveler,' the project creates atmospheric Scandinavian black metal from the Östergötland region.
Náttligr is a black metal project from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 2023. Their Old Norse name — meaning 'nocturnal' — roots their sound in ancient Scandinavian linguistic tradition.
Nayades is a power metal band from Madrid, active since 2017. Named after the freshwater nymphs of Greek mythology, the band channels mythological grandeur through power metal from the Spanish capital.
Não Humano is a black metal project from Barreiro near Lisbon, active since 2021. Their name — Portuguese for 'non-human' — signals the inhuman extremity of their black metal.
Não Inação is a crossover thrash trio from Mauá whose debut EP Saúde Mental Deteriorada packs five tracks of politically charged aggression into under eight minutes, drawing equally from São Paulo hardcore punk and classic thrash. Tracks like "Falta de Ar" and "Desespero" hit themes of mental deterioration and social pressure with the blunt economy the genre demands.
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