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Necrop is a technical death metal band from Ski, Norway, active since 2016. They deliver precision-engineered brutality from this Viken municipality south of Oslo.
Necropath is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2021. The band contributes to the Athenian extreme metal underground with relentless death metal.
Necrophagia was formed in Wellsville, Ohio in 1983 by Frank "Killjoy" Pucci, making them one of the earliest death metal bands in the United States alongside Possessed and Death. Their debut album Season of the Dead (1987) documented a raw, horror-obsessed approach to extreme metal that earned the band a devoted following in the underground tape-trading scene. The band was revived in 1997 with Phil Anselmo of Pantera contributing under the pseudonym Anton Crowley, and continued releasing material until Killjoy's death in 2018; a posthumous final album, Moribundis Grim, appeared in 2024.
Necrophagist is a legendary technical death metal band from Karlsruhe, founded in 1992 by Muhammed Suicmez and signed to Relapse Records. Their albums 'Onset of Putrefaction' and 'Epitaph' redefined technical death metal with head-spinning musicianship and elaborate arrangements that set new standards for the genre.
Płock black metal project formed in 2022, channeling raw darkness from the Masovian city on the Vistula River. Their uncompromising approach draws from the genre's deepest underground traditions.
Necrophagus is a death/thrash metal band from Oristano, Sardinia, Italy, active since 2004. They bring two decades of flesh-eating extremity from this ancient Sardinian city.
Necrophania is a death metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2003. With over two decades of activity, they are veterans of the Hellenic death metal scene.
Nowa Ruda death metal and grindcore act formed in 2012, delivering rapid-fire extremity from the Lower Silesian mountains. Their grinding assault combines death metal brutality with grindcore velocity.
Necrophile is a death metal and grindcore band from Pleven, Bulgaria, active since 2020. The band pairs blast-beat-driven grindcore fury with guttural death metal from central Bulgaria.
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