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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Vacantfield is an avant-garde black metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2011. They push black metal's boundaries with avant-garde and experimental approaches.
Vaina is an avant-garde black metal, dark ambient, and noise project from Finland, formed in 2017. The project pushes extreme boundaries by merging avant-garde black metal with dark ambient and noise experimentation.
Vangardion is an avant-garde symphonic metal project from Germany, formed in 2022. The project pushes the boundaries of symphonic metal with experimental and avant-garde compositional approaches.
Virus was formed in Oslo, Norway in 2000 by Carl-Michael Eide, a veteran of the avant-garde black metal project Ved Buens Ende, alongside bassist Petter Berntsen and drummer Einar Sjurso. The band's sound occupied an unusual space between progressive rock, post-punk, and extreme metal, drawing frequent comparisons to Voivod and Talking Heads, and released four studio albums between 2003 and 2016 through Season of Mist and Karisma Records. The band dissolved in 2018.
Warsaw's Visions of Tondal, named after the medieval Irish vision literature, explores avant-garde metal's outer boundaries with unconventional structures and surreal compositional choices. Their experimental approach rejects genre conventions in favor of unpredictable, challenging musical territory.
Viz is a symphonic/avant-garde metal band from Milan, Italy, formed in 2021. They push the boundaries of symphonic metal with avant-garde compositional approaches.
Bergen's Vulture Industries stands among Norway's most creative metal acts, combining avant-garde compositional ambition with progressive metal's technical demands. Their theatrical, boundary-pushing sound incorporates elements of cabaret, jazz, and dissonance into a framework that defies easy genre classification.
Vyre is an avant-garde/post-metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2013 and self-described as "sci-fi black metal taking you on a journey to outer space." Their conceptual trilogy — "The Initial Frontier" Parts 1 and 2 plus 2018's "Weltformel" — channels the influence of Arcturus and Ulver into sophisticated, space-themed avant-garde black metal.
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