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"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
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Nashorn is a death/doom metal band from Loimaa in southwestern Finland, active since 2011. The band's German name meaning 'rhinoceros' captures the heavy, charging nature of their doom-death.
Nashwuah is a death metal/metalcore band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2022. They bring modern extreme metal intensity from Italy's largest metropolis.
Naska is a black metal project from Krasnogorsk in the Moscow Oblast, active since 2017. They forge darkness from this satellite city of the Russian capital.
Nassau is a progressive death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2023. The band brings complex, evolving death metal compositions to Scotland's vibrant metal scene.
Nastik is a death/thrash metal band from Quilicura, Chile, playing a groove-heavy style they label brutal groove death metal. The band released two albums simultaneously in July 2018 — Human Sacrifice, built around fictional narratives of lost civilizations and ritual sacrifice, and GNOSTIC, exploring ancient mythology and esoteric philosophy through tracks referencing Egyptian and indigenous traditions. Both records are self-released digital albums available on the band's Bandcamp page.
Nastir is a black/thrash metal band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 1995. As one of the longer-running extreme metal acts in northern Greece, they have spent three decades delivering aggressive blackened thrash.
Nastran is a Danish black metal project active since 2007. Named after the Norse corpse-shore, the project channels nearly two decades of mythologically infused black metal.
Nastrandir is a pagan metal band from Lubeck on Germany's Baltic coast, active since 2016. Named after the shore of corpses in Norse mythology, the band channels Viking-age imagery through pagan metal from the historic Hanseatic port.
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