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Nifelheim

Nifelheim is a Swedish black/thrash metal band formed in 1990 in Dals Långed by twin brothers Hellbutcher and Tyrant, a cult act of the early Swedish underground.

Nightcore

Nightcore: sped-up, pitch-raised electronic music style and the Norwegian duo (Thomas S. Nilsen and Steffen Ojala Søderholm, 2002) that originated it; distinct from slowed daycore edits, now the basis of TikTok's sped-up song trend.

Nightstalker

Nightstalker is the stage name of Chris Muniz, a Los Angeles drum & bass DJ and music journalist who has been a resident DJ for promoter Insomniac since the mid-2000s.

Nightwish

Nightwish: Finnish symphonic metal band formed 1996 in Kitee by Tuomas Holopainen; fronted successively by Tarja Turunen, Anette Olzon, and Floor Jansen; tenth album Yesterwynde (2024); Jansen departed October 2026.

Nikita, The Wicked

Nikita, The Wicked is the stage name of Nikita Madorsky, a Louisville-born, San Francisco-based producer and DJ who broke out in 2024 with the Beatport number-one singles "LIKE ME" and "YA BODY".

Nile (band)

Nile is an American technical/brutal death metal band formed in 1993 in Greenville, South Carolina, led by founding guitarist-vocalist Karl Sanders, known for ancient Egyptian and Lovecraftian themes and ten studio albums through The Underworld Awaits Us All (2024, Napalm Records).

Nils Hoffmann

Nils Hoffmann is a German DJ and producer from Berlin who makes melodic and progressive house, known for the 2019 single "Breathing" with Ben Böhmer.

Nilsix

nilsix is a trance and mainstage project of Norwegian producer Ørjan Nilsen and Dutch producer Mark Sixma, formed after COVID-19 and based in the Netherlands and Norway.

Nimino

nimino (nih-mee-no), real name Milo Evans, is a London-based British producer and DJ blending house, UK garage, and hip hop. Breakout 2024 single "I Only Smoke When I Drink" peaked at UK number 48, went BPI Gold, and appeared on the Creek EP (2025) via Counter Records.

Nina Kraviz

Nina Kraviz (Нина Кравиц), Russian techno DJ, producer, and vocalist from Irkutsk, Siberia; former dentist, breakout hit "Ghetto Kraviz" (2011), 2012 debut album, and founder of the трип (Trip) label.

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails (NIN), American industrial rock band founded in Cleveland in 1988 by Trent Reznor; duo with Atticus Ross since 2016; albums Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral, The Fragile; Rock Hall 2020 inductee.

Nine Vicious

Nine Vicious (Treyvion Deronta Echols) is an Atlanta-raised rapper who broke out with "U Fancy?" (2024), joined YSL, and released B4EM, EMOTIONS, and SEDITION in 2026.

Nino Paid

Nino Paid, real name Jacquan Andrews (born 2001), is an American rapper from Landover, Maryland, in the DMV, formerly known as Zeal. Signed to Signal/Columbia, he broke through with "Pain & Possibilities" (2023) and released Can't Go Bacc (2024), Love Me As I Am (2025), and Somewhere Over the Rainbow (2026).

Nipsey Hussle

Nipsey Hussle (Ermias Joseph Asghedom, 1985-2019) was a Los Angeles rapper, All Money In label founder, and community entrepreneur. Known for the $100 Crenshaw mixtape, Grammy-nominated Victory Lap, Marathon Clothing, and 2020 posthumous Grammys.

Nitzer Ebb

Nitzer Ebb is an English electronic body music group formed in 1982 in Chelmsford, Essex, by Douglas McCarthy and Bon Harris, best known for the single "Join in the Chant".

Niversea Festival

Neversea Festival, or NEVERSEA, is a large electronic dance music festival held on the beach at Constanța, Romania, first staged in 2017 by the creators of UNTOLD.

NLE Choppa

NLE Choppa (Bryson Lashun Potts), also briefly NLE The Great, is a Memphis rapper who broke out at 16 with 2019's viral "Shotta Flow," kept ownership via No Love Entertainment with Warner distribution, and released Top Shotta and Cottonwood 2.

No Clean Singing

No Clean Singing is a United States-based music blog covering extreme metal, founded in November 2009 by three metalheads from the Seattle area, posting daily reviews, premieres, and interviews.

No Malice

No Malice, born Gene Elliott Thornton Jr. (1972), is a Virginia Beach rapper, one-half of Clipse with brother Pusha-T; he converted to Christianity, changed his name from Malice in 2012, released solo albums, and reunited as Malice on Let God Sort Em Out (2025).

No Mana

No Mana is the professional name of Jordan Orcaz, an American electro house producer based in Los Angeles, discovered by deadmau5 and known for a pixel-art, retro-gaming aesthetic.

No Redemption (Tchami x Malaa)

No Redemption is the collaborative alias of French house producers Tchami and Malaa, launched with a 2018 EP and ending at EDC Las Vegas in 2025.

No Thanks (musician)

No Thanks is a Canadian house music project from Vancouver, founded around 2019, known for its blend of tech house, bass house, and pop called Polite House.

NoCap

NoCap, born Kobe Vidal Crawford in 1998, is a rapper from Mobile, Alabama whose 2022 debut album Mr. Crawford reached number 8 on the Billboard 200.

Nocturnus

Nocturnus is an American death metal band formed in 1987 in Tampa, Florida by ex-Morbid Angel drummer Mike Browning, known for keyboards and science-fiction lyrics.

Noga Erez

Noga Erez (נגה ארז) is a Tel Aviv-based electronic pop artist and producer known for danceable, politically pointed music, breaking through in 2016 with "Dance While You Shoot".

Noisey (Vice)

Noisey is a music publication and video channel created by Vice Media in 2011, which grew into a YouTube channel, a Viceland TV show, and a Beats 1 radio show.

Noisia

Noisia is a Dutch electronic music trio from Groningen, one of drum and bass's defining acts, who ran the label Vision Recordings and disbanded in 2022 before reuniting.

Noisily Festival 2025

Noisily Festival 2025 was the planned twelfth edition of the independent electronic and psytrance festival, set for July 2025 at Barkestone Wood, Leicestershire, before its cancellation.

Noizy

Noizy (Rigels Rajku, born 1986, Sukth, Albania) is an Albanian rapper and actor, founder of the OTR label, raised in London from 1997, with albums Pak më ndryshe through ALPHA and chart hits in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.

Nokturnal Mortum

Nokturnal Mortum is a Ukrainian symphonic black and folk metal band from Kharkiv, formed in 1994, credited as a pioneer of pagan and folk black metal.