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Necropoli is a death/doom metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2014. Their name — Italian for 'necropolis' — draws on Rome's ancient burial traditions for their funereal sound.
Born on Long Island in 2018, Necropolis carves through crossover thrash and progressive metal territory with the unruly energy of classic hardcore and the technical ambition of modern thrash. Their sound mashes pit-ready riffs against shifting time signatures in a way that refuses easy genre placement.
Necropolis is a death metal band from Sonderborg in southern Denmark near the German border, active since 2018. The band delivers death metal from the historic fortress town on the Als Sound.
Necropolis is a death metal band from Córdoba, Argentina, featuring guitarists and vocalists Guillermo Gomez and Pablo Camiletti alongside bassist Pedro Larrahona and drummer Juan Bustos. They released their debut album Incertidumbre in 1999 and followed it with a second full-length, There Is a Place, in 2007, and have continued performing in the Córdoba metal scene into the present.
Necropolitan is an experimental/progressive black metal band from England, active since 2015. Their sound pushes black metal into progressive and experimental territory.
Necropota is a grindcore, black metal, and brutal death metal band from Madrid, active since 2011. The band delivers a chaotic fusion of extreme subgenres from the Spanish capital.
Necroprofanator is a black/thrash metal band from Campobasso in Molise, Italy, active since 2015. They bring grave-desecrating extremity from one of Italy's least-populated and most overlooked regions.
Necropsia is a death metal and metalcore band from Debrecen, Hungary, formed in 2023. They bring forensic brutality to Hungary's eastern plain.
A long-running death metal band from the Rio Grande do Sul underground, active since the early 1990s and known for a relentless, gore-infused approach rooted in the old-school tradition. Their catalog spans releases such as "We Work for the Devil," a live document titled "Live Desecrations," and the 2022 full-length "Death to Traitors."
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