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Born in the Black Hills of South Dakota in 2025, Vile Serpent deal in raw black metal stripped to its rawest, most venomous essentials. Their home region — steeped in folklore, storms, and wide open plains — is perfect terrain for metal this cold and unadorned.
Colorado's Vileness emerged in 2023 to practice black metal in its most unmediated, atmospheric form, drawing from their state's high-altitude isolation and long winters. Short on ceremony and long on misanthropic intent, they deliver darkness with a direct hand.
California's Vilis (Latin for "worthless" or "base") have navigated raw and depressive black metal's harrowing emotional terrain since 2015, using the genre's minimalism as a magnifying glass for despair. Their Bandcamp handle vilesxmd underscores the project's commitment to keeping things corroded and unpolished.
Vilitas is a black metal project from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2023. They deliver atmospheric black metal from the Alsatian underground.
Vilkates is a black metal band from Chemnitz, Germany, formed in 2014. They channel cold, aggressive black metal from the Saxonian underground scene.
Vils Gueux is a black metal project from Nantes, France, formed in 2025. They channel raw black metal from the western French underground.
Vils Serpents is a black metal project from Évreux, France, formed in 2017. Their name translating to "vile serpents," they deliver raw, venomous black metal.
Vimbulnatt is a black metal project from Elsterheide in Saxony, Germany, founded in 2019 and inspired by the nature and landscape of the Lusatia region. Their prolific output — including "Schattenpfade," "Totenwache," and "Der dunklen Tugenden" — channels emotions of anger, pain, and longing into what they describe as a constantly growing substance.
Atlanta's Vimur emerged in 2014 as one of the American South's more ferocious black metal acts, channeling the bleakness of the Scandinavian tradition through a distinctly American intensity. Their work is marked by relentless tremolo assaults and a compositional seriousness that sets them apart from the regional underground.
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