Nightbearer

Nightbearer is an old school death metal band from Paderborn, NRW, formed in 2017. Their trademark is the Swedish-inspired HM-2 chainsaw guitar sound, combined with lyrics drawn from horror and fantasy literature by Lovecraft and Robert Jordan. They have released three albums on Testimony Records: "Tales of Sorcery and Death" (2019), "Ghosts of a Darkness to Come" (2022), and "Defiance" (2025). Their debut reached #8 in Rock Hard Magazine's soundcheck.