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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Narusnijce is a post-metal/sludge metal band from Perugia, Italy, formed in 2023. They deliver heavy, atmospheric compositions from the capital of Umbria.
Narvah is a black metal project from Slovakia, formed in 2025. The project represents the newest wave of Slovak black metal, adding to the country's growing extreme metal underground.
Narval is a melodic death metal band from Lyon, France, formed in 2016. Their music delivers melodic death metal rooted in the increasingly dynamic French extreme metal underground.
Narvik is a black metal project from Freiburg im Breisgau in Baden-Wurttemberg, active since 2019. The project delivers cold black metal from the sunny university city at the edge of the Black Forest.
Narwhale is a progressive metal band from Aviles in Asturias, active since 2017. The band crafts intricate progressive compositions from the industrial port city on Spain's northern coast.
Narzissus is a Viennese black metal project that explicitly rejects NSBM ideology, structuring its releases as a trilogy: 'Akt I: Wille,' 'Akt II: Fall,' and 'Akt III: Erlösung.' The project, formerly known as Narziss, delivers conceptually unified black metal steeped in German-language thematic arcs.
Kropyvnytskyi black metal and dungeon synth project formed in 2021, blending extreme metal intensity with synthesizer-driven fantasy soundscapes from central Ukraine. Their fusion bridges two complementary underground traditions.
Polish depressive black metal and shoegaze project formed in 2016, fusing the genre's bleakest impulses with dreamy, reverb-drenched textures. Their radical fusion of despair and beauty creates an unusually immersive sonic experience.
Nasca is a thrash metal band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2023. They bring aggressive thrash energy from Hungary's second-largest city in the Great Plains.
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