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Varúlfr is a one-man pagan black metal project from Argentina, active since 2024, with the same individual also running the black metal solo projects Blodmåne and KALDR. The project's debut release "Old Curse," issued on June 8, 2024, is a three-track EP featuring songs including "The Rebirth of the Heraldic Wolf" and "Dark Spells of an Enchanted Sword."
Vaskheim is a black metal project from Niederhasli, Switzerland, formed in 2017. The project channels the cold, atmospheric traditions of Scandinavian-influenced black metal from the Swiss underground.
Vast Chasm is a black metal project from the UK, formed in 2020. They deliver atmospheric, abyssal black metal.
Vast Night is an atmospheric black metal project from London, formed in 2022. They craft immersive, nocturnal atmospheric black metal.
Vastago is a black/death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver intense extreme metal combining the darkness of black metal with death metal's brutality.
Vastarien is the solo project of Maceió-based multi-instrumentalist Rodrigo Lacerda, who handles all instruments, vocals, and production himself. Formed in 2021, the project works a seam of death, doom, and black metal saturated with themes of pessimism, anti-natalism, and cosmic horror — documented across the debut album nothing HAS to be (March 2021) and the two-track EP Cadaveric Fauna / Derealization, self-recorded at Sempiternum Studios in Maceió and released in March 2023.
Vastator is a black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, aggressive black metal from the German underground.
Vathsath are a black metal duo from Quintero, Chile, formed in 2025. Their debut album "Forgotten and Lost Empires" (2025) draws on the philosophy of Nietzsche, exploring nihilism and existential collapse across six tracks of melodic black metal with atmospheric keyboards.
Vatikan is a black metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver raw, blasphemous black metal channeling the anti-religious fervor suggested by their provocative name.
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