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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Näcken is a black metal project from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 2026. Named after the shapeshifting water spirit of Scandinavian folklore, the project represents the newest generation of Swedish black metal.
Nægling is a folk/black metal band from England, formed in 2024. Named after the legendary sword from Beowulf, the band draws on Anglo-Saxon mythology and folk traditions in their black metal.
Nænia is a black/folk metal band from Busto Arsizio near Varese, Italy, active since 2019. Named after the Roman dirge sung at funerals, they merge folk elements with black metal darkness.
Néfastes is a French black metal project formed in 2021. The band channels the raw intensity of black metal in the French tradition.
Némesis is a thrash metal band from Concepción, Chile, formed in 1998 with influences drawn from old-school thrash and death metal acts including Slayer, Kreator, and Malevolent Creation. The band released a self-titled album in January 2016, marking their continued presence in the Chilean thrash underground after more than two decades of activity.
Névoa is an avant-garde black metal band from Porto, Portugal, active since 2014. Their name — Portuguese for 'mist' — captures the obscured, atmospheric quality of their experimental black metal.
Névrose is a black/death metal band from Metz, France, active since 2014. Their sound fuses the atmospheric darkness of black metal with the aggression of death metal from the industrial northeast of France.
Névrosisme is a black/death metal band from the Pays de la Loire region of France, active since 2013. The band blends black and death metal traditions from the western French countryside.
Nëwsün is a stoner metal and rock band from Glasgow, Scotland, formed in 2022. The band delivers heavy, fuzzy stoner grooves from the west of Scotland.
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