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Houston's Vegeraksha emerged in 2024 fusing the crushing weight of doom metal with black metal's spectral malice. Even as a nascent project, their music carries the humid oppressiveness of the Texas Gulf Coast filtered through something genuinely sinister.
Veil Cru is a black metal project from France, formed in 2022. The project delivers raw, atmospheric black metal.
Iowa's Veil of the Forsaken emerged in 2023 with a black metal sound shaped by the barren, flat expanses of the upper Midwest — cold, unpopulated, and unforgiving. Their music captures the feeling of being abandoned somewhere with no horizon in sight.
Pennsylvania's Veiled operate in the black metal underground with intentional obscurity, a 2022 project whose anonymity reinforces the music's atmosphere of concealment and menace. What little emerges from behind the veil is bleak and unadorned.
Veitsi is a black metal/punk band from Finland, formed in 2022. They fuse black metal's rawness with punk's velocity and stripped-down energy, their name meaning "knife" in Finnish.
Velastria is a blackened thrash metal band from Belgium, formed in 2025 with lyrical themes centered on the chaos and horror of warfare. Their debut concept album "War Delusion" explores the horrors of past and future conflicts through relentless blackened thrash.
Velde is a post-black metal/rock band from Brest, France, active since 2011. They blend the atmospheric expansiveness of post-rock with black metal's intensity from the Brittany coast.
Veldraveth is a black metal band from San Felix, Bolivar, Venezuela, formed in 2001 and currently signed to Evil's Records. The band has released several full-lengths including "Undefined God" (2007), "Temples of the Black Flame" (2009), and "Malformations of God" (2016), with themes centered on Satanism. After early lineup instability, the group rebuilt around vocalist R. Capella and has remained active through splits, live recordings, and studio albums.
Velho is a raw black metal project from Duque de Caxias, Rio de Janeiro, founded by Thiago Caronte on guitars and vocals alongside Thiago Splatter on drums, crafting chaotic, existentially charged music with lyrics entirely in Portuguese. The band's discography spans over a decade and includes the albums "Decrepitude e Sabedoria" (2015) and "O Retorno da Mesma Lua" (2019), maintaining an uncompromising underground stance throughout.
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